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NovelWacoustaJohn Richardson · 1832A Gothic novel of the North American frontier, in which the Indian uprising of 1763 provides the setting for a private vengeance pursued from one continent to the other.Literature
NarrativeThe ClockmakerT. C. Haliburton · 1836Satirical sketches that began in a Halifax newspaper, in which an American pedlar serves as a mirror to a colony of the 1830s and its taste for complaining.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelLa Terre paternellePatrice Lacombe · 1846not translated into EnglishA short novel of 1846 in which a prosperous family ruins itself by leaving its land.Literature
PoetryThe St. Lawrence and the Saguenay, and Other PoemsCharles Sangster · 1856A long travel poem about two rivers, published at the author's own expense by a newspaper proofreader from Kingston.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreSaulCharles Heavysege · 1857A biblical drama in verse, written at the workbench and in the evenings in Montreal by a wood carver whose books were the Bible and Shakespeare.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryLe Drapeau de CarillonOctave Crémazie · 1858not translated into EnglishA patriotic poem published on New Year's Day 1858, for the centenary of a French victory that was followed by the conquest.Literature
NovelJean RivardJean Rivard, le défricheurAntoine Gérin-Lajoie · 1862A young man without fortune gives up the town professions and sets out to carve a farm out of the virgin forest.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Golden DogWilliam Kirby · 1877A historical novel of the waning New France, built on a Quebec legend and on the real corruption of the colonial administration on the eve of the Conquest.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryOrion and Other PoemsSir Charles George Douglas Roberts · 1880Collection by a twenty-year-old from the Maritimes, written for the most part during his studies, which brings Greek mythology and a few landscapes of his province together in one book.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryOld Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other PoemsIsabella Valancy Crawford · 1884A verse collection by a poet settled in Toronto, in which the Canadian forest and prairie are treated as mythology.Literature
NovelAngéline de MontbrunLaure Conan · 1884A novel told in letters and then in a journal, about a young woman from the Gaspé struck by two misfortunes.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryLa Légende d'un peupleLouis Fréchette · 1887not translated into EnglishA sequence of tableaux in verse on French-Canadian history, from Cartier to Riel, in the wake of Hugo.Literature
PoetryAmong the Millet and Other PoemsArchibald Lampman · 1888The first collection by an Ottawa post office clerk who headed for the fields and rivers of the Ottawa Valley whenever he could.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryLake Lyrics and Other PoemsWilfred Campbell · 1889A Great Lakes collection, in which nature is read as a revelation of the divine presence.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelBeautiful JoeMargaret Marshall Saunders · 1893The imaginary autobiography of a mutilated dog, written for a competition run by a humane education society dedicated to the protection of animals.Literature
PoetryLow Tide on Grand PréBliss Carman · 1893First book by a poet of the Maritimes settled in the United States, an elegy on the tides of the Minas Basin.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryThe White WampumEmily Pauline Johnson · 1895The first collection of a Mohawk performer who toured the continent on stage, in which Indigenous characters speak of stolen land and hunger.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryMatinsFrancis Sherman · 1896First collection by a young bank clerk from the Maritimes, written in the manner of the English Pre-Raphaelites.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryThe Habitant and Other French-Canadian PoemsWilliam Henry Drummond · 1897Poems in English tinged with French, in which the voice of the habitants of Quebec is transcribed by a Montreal doctor.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesWild Animals I Have KnownErnest Thompson Seton · 1898A collection of stories in which wild animals have a name and a biography; the author claims that they all really lived, while admitting that he lent some of them the adventures of several of their fellows.Literature
PoetryLabor and the AngelDuncan Campbell Scott · 1898Second verse collection by a poet from Ottawa, in which his first sonnets on Iroquois subjects appear.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryThe Song of WineLa Romance du vinÉmile Nelligan · 1899A poem written in reply to the critic who had mocked its very young author.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesThe Lane that Had No TurningSir Gilbert Parker · 1900A collection of stories and short parables devoted to an invented parish in the province of Quebec, written by a Canadian settled in London.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Man from GlengarryRalph Connor · 1901A novel of the lumber camps of Scottish Ontario, written by a minister to preach a manly faith, and which became one of the biggest bookshop successes in his country.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe ImperialistSara Jeannette Duncan · 1904A novel of a small Ontario town at the moment when Canada asks itself whether it should tighten its ties with the Empire or behave as a nation.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetrySongs of a SourdoughRobert W. Service · 1907Klondike ballads written in Whitehorse by a bank clerk who arrived in the Yukon several years after the gold rush.Literature
NovelAnne of Green GablesLucy Maud Montgomery · 1908A childhood novel set on a farm in the Maritimes, where an orphan sent by mistake upsets a brother and sister who expected nothing from her.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelSowing Seeds in DannyNellie McClung · 1908A novel of manners set in a small Prairie town, where the edification of the reader comes through a little girl and her poor family.Literature
CinemaEvangelineWilliam Cavanaugh and Edward P. Sullivan · 1913After Longfellow, two Acadian lovers separated by the deportation, and the young woman's long search.Cinema
NovelMaria ChapdelaineLouis Hémon · 1914A girl of the Quebec forest caught between three suitors, who represent three ways of living in this country or of leaving it.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryIn Flanders FieldsJohn McCrae · 1915A fifteen-line rondeau written at the front, in which the dead of a battle in Flanders speak to those who remain.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryThe Lamp of Poor Souls, and Other PoemsMarjorie Pickthall · 1916A collection of musical and religious poetry, turned towards legend and the saints.LiteraturePublic domain
TaleTsimshian MythologyHenry Wellington Tate and Franz Boas · 1916Among the Tsimshians, a story is family property, passed down with a name and rights, and told at feasts that Canadian law forbade from 1884 to 1951.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Viking HeartLaura Salverson · 1923A novel of Icelandic emigration to Manitoba, in which a family from a fjord takes root in the West without giving up what it was.Literature
NovelSettlers of the MarshFrederick P. Grove · 1925A novel of the settlement of Manitoba, in which a young Swedish immigrant does better on his land than in his life.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelJalnaMazo de la Roche · 1927First published volume of a family saga in sixteen books, in which an Ontario estate serves as a closed world.Literature
CinemaHis DestinyNeal Hart · 1928A western shot in Alberta around the Calgary Stampede, in which a wrongly convicted rancher pursues the man who brought him down.Cinema
CinemaCarry On, Sergeant!Bruce Bairnsfather · 1928Hamilton workers who left for the Great War, between the trenches and the rear of the front.Cinema
PoetryLaconicsW. W. E. Ross · 1930Very short poems by a Toronto geophysicist, on the lakes and forests of northern Ontario.Literature
NovelSuch Is My BelovedMorley Callaghan · 1934A Catholic novel of the Depression years, in which charity taken literally becomes a parish scandal.Literature
NovelMaster of the RiverMenaud, maître-draveurFélix-Antoine Savard · 1937An old log driver from Charlevoix rebels against the sale of the country to foreigners.Literature
PoetryRegards et jeux dans l'espaceHector de Saint-Denys Garneau · 1937Free verse by a twenty-four-year-old man, from childhood games to increasingly dark poems.Literature
PoetryBy Stubborn Stars and Other PoemsKenneth Leslie · 1938Poems from Nova Scotia, including a sequence of sea sonnets about a broken love.Literature
PoetryThe Wind Our EnemyAnne Marriott · 1939A long documentary poem about the drought and the wind that struck the Canadian Prairies during the Depression.Literature
CinemaThe Case of Charlie GordonStuart Legg · 1939Youth unemployment on the eve of the war, seen through the case of a boy from Glace Bay.Cinema
PoetryBrébeuf and His BrethrenE. J. Pratt · 1940An epic poem in twelve cantos on the Jesuit mission in Huron country, from 1625 to the middle of the century.Literature
PoetryHath Not a Jew...A. M. Klein · 1940First collection by a Montreal lawyer, who brings the Jewish tradition into English-language poetry.Literature
PoetryDavid and Other PoemsEarle Birney · 1942A collection whose main piece tells of a summer of mountain climbs between two friends in the Rockies.Literature
CinemaHere Will I NestMelburn E. Turner · 1942The fate of Thomas Talbot, colonizer of south-western Ontario, brought to the screen by a filmmaker from London.Cinema
TaleAdagioFélix Leclerc · 1943not translated into EnglishShort tales written for radio, in which humble people and animals stand in for a moral.Literature
CinemaÀ la croisée des cheminsJean-Marie Poitevin · 1943A Montreal schoolboy, torn between the girl he loves and the call of the mission in China.Cinema
NovelEarth and High HeavenGwethalyn Graham · 1944A novel of a thwarted love in wartime Montreal, which lays bare the polite antisemitism of a milieu that thought itself above such things.Literature
PoetryDay and NightDorothy Livesay · 1944Poems of factory work, the Depression and the war, written by a woman activist of the thirties.Literature
PoetryLes Îles de la nuitAlain Grandbois · 1944not translated into EnglishFree verse by a traveller returned home: the night, the islands, solitude before time.Literature
NovelTwo SolitudesHugh MacLennan · 1945A father pushed aside by his parish, a son torn between two worlds, and a country that does not speak to itself.Literature
PoetryOvertureF. R. Scott · 1945First collection by a Montreal lawyer, between satire of literary circles and political poems.Literature
NovelThe Tin FluteBonheur d'occasionGabrielle Roy · 1945Beneath the viaduct of a working-class district of Montreal, a family driven in different directions by winter and war.Literature
NovelThe OutlanderLe SurvenantGermaine Guèvremont · 1945The arrival of a stranger on a farm by the river disturbs the order of a family and a neighbourhood.Literature
PoetryThe Ill-Tempered Lover and Other PoemsL. A. MacKay · 1948A short collection by a Toronto Latinist, made up for the most part of political satires of the thirties.Literature
NovelThe Plouffe FamilyLes PlouffeRoger Lemelin · 1948Chronicle of a working-class family of Quebec City on the eve of the war.Literature
Short storiesThe TorrentLe TorrentAnne Hébert · 1950A collection of stories, first published at the author's own expense, dominated by a tale of guilt and constraint.Literature
NarrativePeople of the DeerFarley Mowat · 1952Account of a stay in the Arctic among an Inuit people decimated by hunger, and an indictment of those who let them die.Literature
CinemaNeighboursNorman McLaren · 1952Two peaceful neighbours quarrel over a flower that has grown between their plots, and the quarrel turns bitter.Cinema
NovelDust Over the CityPoussière sur la villeAndré Langevin · 1953A doctor newly settled in a mining town looks on, without acting, as his wife has an affair.Literature
NovelSwamp AngelEthel Wilson · 1954Novel of a woman who leaves, set in a British Columbia of lakes and forests.Literature
PoetryThe Metal and the FlowerP. K. Page · 1954A collection by a poet who was also a painter, in which precision of vision leads to dream.Literature
NovelJudith HearneBrian Moore · 1955Novel of a woman alone in postwar Catholic Belfast, where respectability costs more than poverty.Literature
NovelAgagukYves Thériault · 1958A young Inuit and his companion live apart from the tribe, on the tundra, at grips with the white man's law.Literature
NovelThe Apprenticeship of Duddy KravitzMordecai Richler · 1959A novel about a boy from a working-class neighbourhood who learns to stop at nothing to own a piece of land.Literature
PoetryA Red Carpet for the SunIrving Layton · 1959A selection of fifteen years of poems by a Montreal poet, between satire and lyricism.Literature
PoetryWinter SunMargaret Avison · 1960A first collection, gathering poems written since the forties, in which perception becomes a subject.Literature
NovelFour DaysJohn Buell · 1962A suspense novel of extreme economy, in which a twelve-year-old boy carries the stolen money alone to the Laurentians.Literature
TaleTales from the Uncertain CountryContes du pays incertainJacques Ferron · 1962Tales of animals, doctors and ghosts, between the Gaspé Peninsula and the Canadian West.Literature
NovelThe Stone AngelMargaret Laurence · 1964A novel about an old woman who refuses the retirement home, the opening of a cycle set in an imaginary small town in Manitoba.Literature
Short storiesMy Heart Is BrokenMavis Gallant · 1964A collection set in Paris, where Canadian and European women live on the margins.Literature
PoetryThe Colour of the TimesRaymond Souster · 1964Collected poems of a Toronto bank clerk who made his city the first of his subjects.Literature
CinemaNobody Waved Good-byeDon Owen · 1964An eighteen-year-old boy leaves school and his parents' house, without knowing where he is heading.Cinema
PoetryNaked PoemsPhyllis Webb · 1965Very brief poems about a love between two women, in which silence is part of the text.Literature
NovelA Season in the Life of EmmanuelUne saison dans la vie d'EmmanuelMarie-Claire Blais · 1965A rural family of sixteen children lives through a season, between the grandmother, the convent, the novitiate and poverty.Literature
CinemaWinter Kept Us WarmDavid Secter · 1965On a Toronto campus, the friendship of two students becomes something else, which the film never names.Cinema
NovelBeautiful LosersLeonard Cohen · 1966A fragmented novel of the Montreal of the sixties, where an Iroquois saint, a ménage à trois and the history of Quebec intermingle.Literature
NovelSwallowedL'Avalée des avalésRéjean Ducharme · 1966The monologue of a child at war with the adult world and with language, a first novel refused in Quebec and published in Paris.Literature
TheatreColours in the DarkJames Reaney · 1967A play in short scenes, almost without plot, in which a life comes back in fragments of memory.Literature
NovelHail Galarneau!Salut Galarneau !Jacques Godbout · 1967A hot-dog vendor keeps his notebooks, and the spoken language of Quebec enters the novel.Literature
Short storiesDance of the Happy ShadesAlice Munro · 1968Ordinary women and girls of southwestern Ontario, caught at the moment that matters.Literature
NovelMémoires d'outre-tonneauVictor-Lévy Beaulieu · 1968not translated into EnglishFirst novel, the monologue of Satan Belhumeur, a recluse at the gates of a village.Literature
NovelLa Guerre, Yes Sir!La Guerre, yes Sir !Roch Carrier · 1968A funeral wake in a Quebec village of the conscription years, where two languages face each other around a coffin.Literature
TheatreLes Belles-SoeursLes Belles-sœursMichel Tremblay · 1968Fifteen women paste bonus stamps in a Montreal kitchen, and speak the language that was not brought on stage.Literature
PoetryComme eau retenueJean-Guy Pilon · 1969not translated into EnglishTen years of verse by one of the first poets of the Hexagon, from love and nature to the homeland.Literature
CinemaPrologueRobin Spry · 1969A Montreal activist and an American draft resister: two ways of refusing the world in 1968.Cinema
NovelFifth BusinessRobertson Davies · 1970First volume of a trilogy in which a child's act, one winter evening, weighs on several lives.Literature
PoetryThe March to LoveL'Homme rapailléGaston Miron · 1970A collection of the scattered poems of a Montreal poet, between the march of love and the humiliated language of a country.Literature
CinemaGoin' Down the RoadDonald Shebib · 1970Two boys from the Maritimes go up to Toronto to seek their fortune and discover what the city has in store for them.Cinema
TheatreLa SagouineAntonine Maillet · 1971An Acadian floor-scrubber speaks alone, in the vernacular of New Brunswick.Literature
CinemaMy Uncle AntoineMon oncle AntoineClaude Jutra · 1971A teenager from a mining village spends a Christmas Eve with his uncle that initiates him into the adult world.Cinema
CinemaFortune and Men's EyesHarvey Hart · 1971A young inmate discovers the law of a youth institution and what must be given up there to survive.Cinema
CinemaThe Apprenticeship of Duddy KravitzTed Kotcheff · 1974A boy from postwar Jewish Montreal wants to buy the land around a lake and has only his nerve to get there.Cinema
CinemaMontreal MainFrank Vitale · 1974In the English-speaking bohemia of Montreal, the friendship between a photographer and a child worries everyone.Cinema
CinemaOnce Upon a Time in the EastIl était une fois dans l'EstAndré Brassard · 1974In the east end of Montreal and on the Main, figures from several Michel Tremblay plays cross paths.Cinema
NovelThe WarsTimothy Findley · 1977A novel of the Great War built like an archival investigation, in which one tries to understand the act of a young Canadian officer.Literature
CinemaJ.A. Martin PhotographerJ.A. Martin photographeJean Beaudin · 1977An itinerant photographer and his wife on the roads of Quebec before 1900, fifteen years after their wedding.Cinema
CinemaGood RiddanceLes bons débarrasFrancis Mankiewicz · 1980A teenage girl in the Laurentians wants her mother all to herself, against everyone else.Cinema
CinemaThe Plouffe FamilyLes PlouffeGilles Carle · 1981Film adaptation of a family chronicle that Quebec already knew from radio and television.Cinema
CinemaTicket to HeavenR. L. Thomas · 1981A young man hurt by a break-up is drawn in, over the course of a weekend, by a Californian religious group.Cinema
CinemaWild FlowersLes fleurs sauvagesJean-Pierre Lefebvre · 1982A week-long visit by a mother to her daughter in the countryside, between affection and refused roles.Cinema
CinemaThe Grey FoxPhillip Borsos · 1982An old stagecoach robber regains his freedom at the beginning of the century and discovers that only trains are left.Cinema
CinemaMelanieRex Bromfield · 1982An illiterate young woman goes to Los Angeles to get her son back, and must first learn to read.Cinema
NarrativeRunning in the FamilyMichael Ondaatje · 1982A writer's return to the island of his childhood, listening to the stories his family still tells itself.Literature
CinemaVideodromeDavid Cronenberg · 1983In Toronto, the head of a local channel picks up images of torture, and his own flesh begins to betray him.Cinema
NovelThe Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood · 1985In a theocratic republic installed by force, women who are still fertile are assigned to the regime's dignitaries.Literature
NovelHow to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting TiredComment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguerDany Laferrière · 1985A Montreal novel in which two penniless immigrants mock the clichés of desire and race.Literature
CinemaBayoMort Ransen · 1985In a Newfoundland port, a ten-year-old boy refuses to follow his mother to Toronto, as she is in a hurry to leave the island.Cinema
CinemaCrime WaveJohn Paizs · 1985An aspiring B-movie screenwriter, living above a garage in Winnipeg, never manages to write the middle of his story.Cinema
Cinema90 DaysGiles Walker · 1985Two bachelors in Montreal, a fiancée coming from Korea, and a deadline running down.Cinema
CinemaThe Decline of the American EmpireLe Déclin de l'empire américainDenys Arcand · 1986Montreal academics talk about sex for a whole day, the men while cooking, the women at the gym.Cinema
NovelMauve DesertLe Désert mauveNicole Brossard · 1987A novel in three parts, in which an account of the American desert is followed by its translation from French into French.Literature
CinemaI've Heard the Mermaids SingingPatricia Rozema · 1987A clumsy temp walks into a Toronto gallery and into the life of the woman who runs it.Cinema
NovelA Casual BrutalityNeil Bissoondath · 1988A novel of return to the native land, on a Caribbean island that oil made rich and then left to fear.Literature
CinemaBye Bye BluesAnne Wheeler · 1989A woman of the Prairies whose husband is held in captivity becomes a band singer to support her children.Cinema
CinemaWhere the Spirit LivesBruce Pittman · 1989Two Kainai children, Blackfoot, are torn from their family and placed in a boarding school where their language and their name are erased.Cinema
CinemaThe Company of StrangersCynthia Scott · 1990Eight women stranded in the middle of the Quebec countryside, who wait for help and tell each other their lives.Cinema
CinemaThe Events Leading Up to My DeathBill Robertson · 1991A silent Toronto family, shut up in its bungalow, falls apart around the death of its dog.Cinema
CinemaLove-moiMarcel Simard · 1991A filmmaker with no means has battered teenagers write and perform the show of their own lives.Cinema
CinemaSam and MeDeepa Mehta · 1991A young Indian immigrant in Toronto is entrusted with the care of his employer's elderly Jewish father.Cinema
CinemaThe Grocer's WifeJohn Pozer · 1991A smoke inspector in a foundry town, his mother, and two women who disturb the established order.Cinema
CinemaLéoloJean-Claude Lauzon · 1992A boy from Montreal invents a Sicilian birth for himself and takes refuge in writing.Cinema
CinemaLapse of MemoryPatrick Dewolf · 1992A fifteen-year-old boy loses his memory, searches for it, and discovers that he is living under a false name.Cinema
NovelPlainsongCantique des plainesNancy Huston · 1993A novel by a granddaughter who tells the life of an Albertan grandfather, over a century of the Prairies.Literature
NovelThe Stone DiariesCarol Shields · 1993The fictional autobiography of an ordinary woman born in 1905, which takes up the forms of the genre to show its limits.Literature
CinemaThirty Two Short Films About Glenn GouldFrançois Girard · 1993Portrait of a pianist in thirty-two fragments, built like the score that made him famous.Cinema
CinemaThe Lotus EatersPaul Shapiro · 1993On an island in the Canadian Pacific, a school principal, his family, and the young woman who has just been appointed to the village.Cinema
CinemaThe Sex of the StarsLe sexe des étoilesPaule Baillargeon · 1993A teenage girl passionate about astronomy sees the father she was waiting for return, now a woman.Cinema
NovelThe Book of SecretsM. G. Vassanji · 1994A colonial diary from 1913 and an old teacher's investigation into the Indians of East Africa.Literature
CinemaExoticaAtom Egoyan · 1994Around a Toronto cabaret, a few lives whose connections are only gradually revealed.Cinema
CinemaThe ConfessionalLe ConfessionnalRobert Lepage · 1995Two brothers look in Quebec City for the father of one of them, and go back to the year 1952, that of Hitchcock's shoot.Cinema
CinemaHard Core LogoBruce McDonald · 1996A mock documentary about the reunion tour of an ageing punk band, from Vancouver to the Prairies.Cinema
CinemaCubeVincenzo Natali · 1997Locked in a labyrinth where some of the rooms kill, strangers search for the rule of the device.Cinema
NovelNo Great MischiefAlistair MacLeod · 1999A novel about a Scottish clan of Cape Breton, in which two centuries of family loyalty fit into a motorway journey and a conversation between two brothers.Literature