Introduction
PART ONE: MARGINS AND CENTRES
From “Conclusion”
The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History
Harold A. Innis
Cornelius Krieghoff: 1845-1865
Dennis Reid
Hollywood’s Canada: The Americanization of Our National Image
Pierre Berton
“Many Tender Ties”: Women in Fur-Trade Society in Western Canada, 1670-1870
Sylvia Van Kirk
The Canadian Postmodern
Linda Hutcheon
By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women
Maria Tippett
PART TWO: THE NORTH
The True North Strong and Free
Carl Berger
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Robert Service
The Logic of Ecstacy: Canadian Mystical Painting 1920-1940
Ann Davis
Snow
Frederick Philip Grove
Mon Pays
Gilles Vigneault
Snowbird
Gene MacLellan (sung by Anne Murray)
The Idea of North
Otto Friedrich
PART THREE: TWO SOLITUDES
Two Solitudes
Hugh MacLennan
A Season in the Life of Emmanuel
Marie-Claire Blais
Third Solitudes: Tradition and Discontinuity in Jewish-Canadian Literature
Michael Greenstein
The Imaginary Indian: The Image of Indian in Canadian Culture
Daniel Francis
PART FOUR: NATIONALISM
Canada
Sir Adolphe Basile Routhier & Robert Stanley Weir
Towards the Last Spike
E.J. Pratt
Nationalism in Canadian Literature
Frank Watt
Home Truths: An Introduction
Mavis Gallant
Creed
F.R. Scott
El Greco: Espolio
Earle Birney
Male Rage Poem
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
PART SIX: REGIONALISM
Newfoundland
E.J. Pratt
High Realism in Canada: Alex Colville
Paul Duval
A Boy’s Prairie
W.O. Mitchell
Sarah Binks
Paul Hiebert
Montreal
A.M. Klein
Things Made by Inuit
Marybelle Myers
PART SEVEN: BEAUTIFUL LOSERS
My Financial Career
Stephen Leacock
Six Journey: A Canadian Pattern
Charles Taylor
Lament for the Dorsets
A.W. Purdy
The Animals in That Country
Margaret Atwood
Foxes
Timothy Findley
The Twelve Days of Christmas
“Bob & Doug MacKenzie”
PART EIGHT: MULTICULTURALISM
Obasan
Joy Kogawa
Kurelek’s Vision of Canada
Joan Murray
Harriet’s Daughter
Marlene Nourbese Philip
The Blacks in New Brunswick
W.A. Spray
PART NINE: IDEOLOGY IN CULTURE
Canada’s Flag
John Ross Matheson