Upper Phoenix, c1900. Once the highest incorporated city in Canada, Phoenix mines supplied copper ore to the Granby smelter in Grand Forks for twenty years. This bustling city had over 24 hotels and saloons, four churches, a school, brewery, Phoenix Pioneer newspaper and championship hockey teams. Later open pit mining obliterated this city site. Photo by Wm. Hall. Collection of Stan Sherstobitoff.
Anne and Philip Yandle Best Article Award
Each year, the British Columbia Historical Federation offers a certificate and cash prize ($250) to the author of an article published in British Columbia History that best enhances knowledge of the history of British Columbia and provides enjoyable reading. Judging is based upon subject development, writing skill, freshness of material, and its appeal to a general readership interested in all aspects of the history of the province.
Eligibility
To be eligible, the article must have appeared in the BCHF journal British Columbia History
Stipulations
None
Publicity
Notice of the winning article will be posted in the British Columbia Historical Federation’s publications.
Nominations
Judges consider all articles published in British Columbia History that year and isssue the Anne and Philip Yandle Best Article Award.
Historical Note
In 2007, the Federation renamed its Best Article Award in honor of Anne and Philip Yandle dedicated members of the Federation and the cofounders of British Columbia Historical News (1968), the predecessor to British Columbia History (2005). During the journal’s first ten years, the Yandles edited, typed, mimeographed, collated and mailed the publication. Anne was the Head of Special Collections at UBC Library and for many years she served as the Federation’s Book Review Editor.
Winners
• 2009 Fred Braches, “Chile, Peru and the Early Lumber Exports of BC,” BC History, 42.2
• 2008 Bill Laux, “A Kootenay Saga,” BC History, 41.4
• 2007 Allan Pritchard, “The Royal Navy and the Comox Settlement,” BC History, 40.2
• 2006 Greg Nesteroff, “Boris Karloff in British Columbia,” BC History, 39.1
• 2005 Dr. Jean Barman, “Lost Nanaimo—taking back our past,” BC History, 38.3
• 2004 R.G. Harvey, “The Crows Nest Railway,” BC Historical News, 37.3
• 2003 R.J. (Ron) Welwood, “Baillie–Grohman’s Diversion,” BC Historical News, 36.4
• 2002 Liberty Walton, “How Shall I Frame Myself,” BC Historical News, 35.4
• 2001 Freeman M. Tovell, “Chief Maquinna and Bodega y Quadra,” BC Hist News, 34.4
• 2000 Edward (Ted) Affleck, “Steamboating on the Peace River,” BC Historical News, 33.1
• 1999 Joyce Clearihue, “Fort Victoria and HBCo Doctors,” BC Historical News, 32.1