The shortlisted titles for the 2014 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia were announced today. Now in its second year, the annual award for Canadian authors is presented by the UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld News Society. The winner, who will be announced at a reception in Vancouver on June 5, receives $1,000.

The shortlisted books are:

• Arthur Erickson: An Architect’s Life, David Stouck (Douglas & McIntyre)
• Charles Edenshaw, Robin Kathleen Wright, Daina Augaitis, Robert Davidson, and James Hart (Black Dog Publishing)
• Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History, Sean Kheraj (UBC Press)