Dartmouth Book Award (Non-fiction)

2008: Marq de Villiers for Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose
2007: Keith McLaren for A Race for Real Sailors
2006: Laura M. MacDonald for Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion 1917
2005: Paul Erickson for Historic North End Halifax
2004: Elizabeth Pacey for Miracle on Brunswick Street
2003: Stephen Kimber for Sailors, Slacker and Blind Pigs: Halifax at War
2002: Kate Langan for The Art of Worship
2001: Harry Chapman for In the Wake of the Alderney
2000: David Frank for J.B. MacLachlan: a Biography
1999: James Mahar, Rowena Mahar for Too Many to Mourn: One Family's Tragedy in the Halifax Explosion
1998: Merritt Gibson for The Old Place
1997: Lance Woolaver, Bob Brooks for The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis
1996: J.R.C. Perkin for Ordinary Magic
1995: Dean Jobb for Calculated Risk
1994: (tie) Daniel Paul for We Were Not the Savages and Leslie Smith Dow for Adele Hugo: La Miserable
1993: Sally Ross, Alphonse Deveau for Acadians of Nova Scotia
1992: Silver Donald Cameron for Wind, Whales and Whiskey
1991: Harry Thurston for Tidal Life
1990: Claude Bissell for Ernest Buckler, Remembered
1989: Harry Bruce for Down Home (Note: In the awards' first year, there was only one award, not separate awards for fiction and non-fiction.)