In 2003, Vancouver writer Maggie de Vries won the first Ryga Award for her memoir Missing Sarah (Penguin Canada) about her sister who went missing on the Downtown Eastside. Judges for the Ryga Award are author & poet Trevor Carolan, retired VPL librarian Jane Curry and BC BookWorld publisher Beverly Cramp. The award comes with a $2,500 prize and publicity in BCBookLook and BC BookWorld. writer who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new book published in the preceding calendar year. The George Ryga Award is an annual literary prize for a B.C. “A modern day Joan of Arc story: her example of fighting for environmental, social, community, and multicultural justice deserves being taught to every B.C.
It was Morton who finally proved conclusively that farmed fish transmit the deadly pathogen that has been devastating the Pacific Coast wild salmon when for decades a legion of well-paid bureaucrats looked the other way.
“We’ve been within a whisper of losing our wild salmon populations-as well as the endangered livelihoods of the mostly small-town and Indigenous wild salmon fleet families-if not for the work of this remarkable campaigner and researcher. Salmon are the lifeblood of our Pacific Coast, and in telling her courageous story, Morton, the activist-on-a-shoestring par excellence relates her incredible story of bringing to account the corporate and government bureaucratic scofflaws who for over two decades countenanced malfeasance of the gravest degree in their ‘stewardship’ of wild salmon stocks.
“Morton’s book is a record of impassioned, long-term commitment and self-sacrifice. Alexandra Morton’s story of her lifelong struggle, Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon (Random House $35) has captured this year’s George Ryga Award for social awareness in literature.
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