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Announcing the 2024 BC Studies Prize Winner: Shianna McAllister!

June 24, 2025

We are pleased to award the annual BC Studies Prize to Shianna McAllister for her article “Damming Colonial Evasion: An Accounting of the Unaccountable in the Mount Polley Mine Disaster,” published in issue no. 221 (Spring 2024).

Runners-up:

Jesse Robertson, “Lightkeepers on Huu-ay-aht Shores: Indigenous Labour and Knowledge in the History of Coastal Navigation” published in BC Studies no. 222 (Summer 2024)

and Mayana Slobodian, “The Kitsilano Scandal: The Destruction of Sen̓áḵw As Told in Local Newspapers, 1913-16” published in BC Studies no. 222 (Summer 2024).

Read the winning articles open access on OJS!

We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.