Two Writing Awards for Stewards of Splendour

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York University’s History Department website recognizes Stewards of Splendour for winning two writing awards:

“Associate Professor Jennifer Bonnell, from the Department of History, won two awards for her book, Stewards of Splendour: A History of Wildlife and People in British Columbia (Royal BC Museum, 2023).

The British Columbia Historical Federation (BCHF) awarded Bonnell with the Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing. The award, that includes a $2,500 prize, is the largest for historical writing in BC. Bonnell also won the Canadian Historical Association’s 2024 Clio Prize for the best book on regional history.

In addition to winning two Canadian book awards, Stewards of Splendour has also been recognized as a finalist in the BC & Yukon Book Prizes’ Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, as well as in two publication prizes (Authored book; and Biography and History of Wildlife Management) from the US-based organization of conservation professionals, The Wildlife Society.”