Playing the Indian Card

Sunday, August 09, 2009

Canadian Literature's Big Three

There are three great founder-figures of English Canadian literature and the English-Canadian literary imagination, all of whom should feature on our banknotes. But, if the current cultural or political elite got to choose, I feel sure none of them would be.

They are:

Lucy Maude Montgomery
Stephen Leacock
Robert W. Service

Everything else ever written in English Canada since has been based on one or all of these.

I hope to God they are at least still taught in the schools.

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