Canadian Canon - Big List, Big Country!
Vladimir Putin recently introduced the idea of a Russian Canon - a list of 100 works of Russian literature that would be integrated with Russia's education system. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/26/vladimir-putin-book-russian-canon That got me thinking about a Canadian Canon... (Right now, the list is in no particular order and is not quite finished.)
Roughing It In The Bush Penguin Black Classics Edition
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Z
In the Skin of a Lion
Deptford Trilogy
Kamouraska
The Hidden Room
Beautiful Losers
The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Les Belles Soeurs
Black Robe
The Last Spike
The Great Railway, 1881-1885
No Logo
Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
The Jade Peony
Green Grass, Running Water
Leaving Home
Three Day Road
Land to Light On
Mad Shadows
Penguin Celebrations - Voltaires Bastards
The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
Man Descending
Complete Writings of Emily Carr
Paris 1919
Six Months That Changed the World