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| Date | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| 1832 | Wacousta | John Richardson | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1836 | The Sayings and Doings of Sam Slick | Thomas Chandler Haliburton | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Clockmaker | Thomas Chandler Haliburton | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| The Backwoods of Canada | Catherine Parr Traill | Canada | Letters | ||||||||
| 1852 | Roughing It in the Bush | Susanna Moodie | Canada | Memoir | |||||||
| 1886 | In Divers Tones | Charles G.D. Roberts | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1893 | Low Tide on Grand Pre | Bliss Carmen | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| The Magic House and Other Poems | Duncan Campbell Scott | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1895 | Lyrics of Earth | Archibald Lampman | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1902 | The Man from Glengarry | Ralph Connor | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1904 | The Imperialist | Sarah Jeannette Duncan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1907 | Songs of a Sourdough | Robert Service | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1908 | Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maude Montgomery | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1910 | My Financial Career | Stephen Leacock | Canada | Story | |||||||
| 1912 | Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town | Stephen Leacock | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| 1914 | Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich | Stephen Leacock | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| 1921 | Maria Chapdelaine | Louis Hémon | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1923 | Newfoundland Verse | E.J. Pratt | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1925 | Settlers of the Marsh | Frederick Philip Grove | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1927 | Jalna | Mazo de la Roche | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Master’s Wife | Andrew MacPhail | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1928 | Strange Fugitive | Morley Callaghan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Green Pitcher | Dorothey Livesay | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1929 | White Narcissus | Raymond Knister | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1933 | Fruits of the Earth | Frederick Philip Grove | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Lyrics of Earth | Archibald Lampman | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1934 | Such is My Beloved | Morley Callaghan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1935 | They Shall Inherit the Earth | Morley Callaghan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1937 | More Joy in Heaven | Morley Callaghan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1941 | Barometer Rising | Hugh MacLennan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| As For Me and My House | Sinclair Ross | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1942 | His Majesty’s Yankees | Thomas H. Raddall | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| David | Earl Birney | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1943 | News of the Phoenix and Other Poems | A.J.M. Smith | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1944 | The Master of the Mill | Frederick Philip Grove | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Earth and High Heaven | Gwethalyn Graham | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1945 | Two Solitudes | Hugh MacLennan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Tin Flute | Gabrielle Roy | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | Elizabeth Smart | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1946 | When We Are Young | Raymond Souster | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| East of the City | Louis Dudek | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1947 | Music at the Close | Edward McCourt | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Hetty Dorval | Ethel Wilson | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Who Has Seen the Wind? | W.O. Mitchell | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Poems for People | Dorothey Livesay | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1949 | Turvey | Earl Birney | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Innocent Traveller | Ethel Wilson | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1950 | Home is the Stranger | Edward McCourt | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Cabbagetown | Hugh Garner | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| The Nymph and the Lamp | Thomas H. Raddall | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1951 | The Loved and the Lost | Morley Callaghan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Tempest Tost | Robertson Davies | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| The Second Scroll | A.M. Klein | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Where Nests the Water Hen | Gabrielle Roy | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1952 | The Mountain and the Valley | Ernest Buckler | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Equations of Love | Ethel Wilson | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| Towards the Last Spike | E.J. Pratt | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1954 | Swamp Angel | Ethel Wilson | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Leaven of Malice | Robertson Davies | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1955 | The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne | Brian Moore | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1956 | Let Us Compare Mythologies | Leonard Cohen | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1958 | Canada Made Me | Norman Levine | Canada | Memoir | |||||||
| Execution | Colin McDougall | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1959 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Mordecai Richler | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Double Hook | Sheila Watson | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Morley Callaghan’s Stories | Morley Callaghan | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| 1960 | Winter Sun | Margaret Avison | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| Mad Shadows | Marie-Claire Blais | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| The Luck of Ginger Coffey | Brian Moore | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1961 | The Stone Angel | Margaret Laurence | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Jake and the Kid | W.O. Mitchell | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| 1962 | Flying a Red Kite | Hugh Hood | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| 1963 | Never Cry Wolf | Farley Mowat | Canada | Memoir | |||||||
| Hugh Garner’s Best Stories | Hugh Garner | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| 1964 | The Stone Angel | Margaret Laurence | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1965 | Next Episode | Hubert Aquin | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1966 | A Season in the Life of Emmannuel | Marie-Claire Blais | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Beautiful Losers | Leonard Cohen | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| A Jest of God | Margaret Laurence | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| St. Urbain’s Horseman | Mordecai Richler | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1967 | I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Margaret Craven | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Bread, Wine and Salt | Alden Nowlan | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1968 | Les Belles-Soeurs | Michel Tremblay | Canada | Drama | |||||||
| 1969 | I’ve Tasted My Blood | Milton Acorn | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| The Edible Woman | Margaret Atwood | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Five Legs | Graeme Gibson | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| The Studhorse Man | Robert Kroetsch | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Selected Poetry | Irving Layton | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| The Shadow-Maker | Gwendolyn MacEwen | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1970 | Fifth Business | Robertson Davies | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Kamouraska | Anne Hébert | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| The Ecstasy of Rita Joe | George Ryga | Canada | Drama | ||||||||
| The Weekend Man | Richard B. Wright | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1971 | Power Politics | Margaret Atwood | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| Lives of Girls and Women | Alice Munro | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| 1972 | More Poems for People | Milton Acorn | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| The Great Canadian Novel | Harry J. Boyle | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Selected Poems | Al Purdy | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1972-87 | The Martyrology | bpNichol | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1973 | The Book of Eve | Constance Beresford-Howe | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Temptations of Big Bear | Rudy Wiebe | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1974 | The Diviners | Margaret Laurence | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Alligator Pie | Dennis Lee | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1975 | The Swing in the Garden | Hugh Hood | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Farewell, Babylon | Naïm Kattan | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| A Suit of Nettles | James Reaney | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1976 | Bear | Marian Engel | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Spit Delaney's Island | Jack Hodgins | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| 1977 | The Invention of the World | Jack Hodgins | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Wars | Timothy Findlay | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1978 | Judith | Aritha van Herk | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1979 | The Hockey Sweater and Other Stories | Roch Carrier | Canada | Drama | |||||||
| Balconville | David Fennario | Canada | Drama | ||||||||
| Jitters | David French | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| Pélagie | Antoine Maillet | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| 1980 | Selected Poem: Beyond Even Faithful Legends | Bill Bissett | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1981 | The Alley Cat | Yves Beauchemin | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Famous Last Words | Timothy Findlay | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Obasan | Joy Kogawa | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| Collected Poems | F.R. Scott | Canada | Poetry | ||||||||
| 1982 | Shoeless Joe | W.P. Kinsella | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Man Descending | Guy Vanderhaege | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| 1983 | A Time for Judas | Morley Callaghan | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1984 | Neuromancer | William Gibson | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Engineer of Human Souls | Josef Skvorecký | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1984-86 | The Fionavar Tapestry | Guy Gavriel Kay | Canada | Novels | |||||||
| 1985 | Black Robe | Brian Moore | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1987 | The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| In the Skin of A Lion | Michael Ondaatje | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1988 | Volkswagen Blues | Jacques Poulin | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Nights Below Station Street | David Adams Richards | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1989 | Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love | Brad Fraser | Canada | Drama | |||||||
| Mister Sandman | Barbara Gowdy | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1990 | Mauve Desert | Nicole Brossard | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing | Tomson Highway | Canada | Drama | ||||||||
| Lives of the Saints | Nino Ricci | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1991 | Generation X | Douglas Coupland | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| 1992 | We So Seldom Look on Love | Barbara Gowdy | Canada | Stories | |||||||
| The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1993 | Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs | Leonard Cohen | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| Away | Jane Urquhart | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1995 | A Fine Balance | Rohan Mistry | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Maestro | Tim Wynn-Jones | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
| 1996 | Fall on Your Knees | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| Selected Stories | Mavis Gallant | Canada | Stories | ||||||||
| 1997 | The Hidden Room: Collected Poems | P.K. Page | Canada | Poetry | |||||||
| 1998 | Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Canada | Drama | |||||||
| 1999 | Elizabeth and After | Matt Cohen | Canada | Novel | |||||||
| The Drawer Boy | Michael Healey | Canada | Drama | ||||||||
| Barney’s Version | Mordecai Richler | Canada | Novel | ||||||||
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