Stanley Munn and Patricia Cucman have been named the winners of the 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for To See What He Saw: J.E.H. Macdonald and the O’Hara Years, 1924–1932, published by Figure 1 Publishing.

The $3,500 prize, given by UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld News Society, is awarded annually to the outstanding scholarly book on a British Columbia subject by a Canadian author.

Published in collaboration with the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, Alberta, for a 2024 exhibition, the book traces Group of Seven member (J.E.H.) MacDonald’s trips to Lake O’Hara in Yoho National Park, B.C., during the last nine years of his life, in a detailed catalogue that pairs his work with present day photographs shot from the same viewpoints where the artist made his sketches.

Shortlisted for the prize were Signs of the Time: Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art, by Chris Arnett (UBC Press) and Pentecostal Preacher Woman: The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard, by Linda Ambrose (UBC Press).

The prize will be awarded at a reception in April.