Jeanne Clarke Awards

Library Board Announces Nominees for 37th Annual Jeanne Clarke Awards

Feb 28, 2022 | 1:17 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — The nominees for the 37th annual Jeanne Clarke Awards have been revealed.

The Prince George Public Library Board releasedthe list today. The awards were created in 1985 in honour of former library board chair Jeanne Clarke.

The nominees for this year’s publication award are:

• A Mountain of Change, 1960-2020: Hudson Bay Mountain, Smithers, BC by Lynn MacNeil, Jeannette Malkow, Connie Scott, and Debi Lyn Smith.

• Wagon Road North: The Saga of the Cariboo Gold Rush by Art Downs

• British Columbia in Flames: Stories from a Blazing Summer by Claudia Cornwall

• Aggie and Mudgy: The Journey of Two Kaska Dena Children by Wendy Proverbs

• In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience by Helen Knott

• Murders on the Skeena: True Crime in the Old Canadian West, 1884-1914 by Geoff Mynett

The award is presented annually to individuals or groups for outstanding contributions in the preservation and promotion of local and regional history in the categories of publication and service.

This year’s awards will be air on CKPG TV on March 13 at 6 p.m., March 14 at 7 p.m., and can be streamed online at www.ckpgtoday.ca.