Screen adaptation ·
Hammond Innes
An inherited Rocky Mountain valley faces the threat of a dam.
Adventure novel
Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond and John English
Canada’s early twentieth century unfolds through growth, depression and war.
History
Robert Bothwell, Ian Drummond and John English
Postwar politics and provincial interests shape a changing Canada.
History ·
Seymour M. Lipset
A comparison of the values shaping Canada and the United States.
Nonfiction ·
Robertson Davies
A childhood accident shadows an Ontario schoolmaster’s recollections of his life.
Novel · · · ·
Hammond Innes
A missing client leads a solicitor through Alaska and western Canada’s forests.
Thriller · ·
Thomas B. Costain
The Le Moyne family’s fortunes link New France with colonial Louisiana.
Historical novel ·
Mordecai Richler
Richler’s Canadian essays mix personal affection with a novelist’s sharp scrutiny.
Essays
Terry Pindell
A rail journey brings Canada’s distances and communities into view.
Travel writing
Susanna Moodie
Moodie observes the society growing around nineteenth-century Lake Ontario.
Memoir
Stephen Brook
Stephen Brook explores the people and contradictions of modern Canada.
Travel writing
Barry Broadfoot
A Canadian journalist recalls the varied people who shaped his working life.
Memoir
Jan Morris
Jan Morris finds Canada’s character in its cities and everyday encounters.
Travel writing
Robert F. Legget
Railways connect Canadian landscapes with the history of national development.
History ·
Susanna Moodie
An immigrant’s hopes meet the hardships of a Canadian backwoods farm.
Memoir
Mordecai Richler
An obsessed biographer tries to untangle the legends of a Canadian dynasty.
Novel
Barry Broadfoot
Canadians remember the hardship and ingenuity of the Depression years.
Oral history
Andrew H. Malcolm
People and regional differences give Malcolm’s portrait of Canada its shape.
Nonfiction
Dick Francis
A racing investigator pursues corruption aboard a train crossing Canada.
Crime novel
David Staines, editor
Different Canadian voices consider culture, identity and the country’s boundaries.
Essays ·
Robertson Davies
A Canadian lawyer seeks understanding through Jungian analysis in Switzerland.
Fiction
Alice Munro
Munro uncovers the emotional complexity of ordinary Canadian lives.
Short stories
Albert and Theresa Moritz
Canadian writers and their books are connected to the places they knew.
Literary nonfiction
Kenneth McNaught
A broad historical introduction to Canada’s institutions and regional relationships.
History
Barry Broadfoot
Settlers recall the labour and hopes of western Canada’s pioneer years.
Oral history
Ervin Austin MacDonald
A pioneer family pursues a hard-won home in western Canada.
Memoir · ·
Peter Beresford Ellis
Two brothers face divided loyalties during the 1866 Fenian incursion into Canada.
Historical novel
Annie Proulx
After a series of losses, Quoyle leaves the United States with his daughters and returns to his family's ancestral home on the Newfoundland coast.
Literary fictionScreen adaptation ·
Farley Mowat
Arctic stories explore survival and cultural change in Canada’s far north.
Short stories ·
Marian Botsford Fraser
Border communities reveal the ties and differences between Canada and America.
Travel writing 
