List of Featured Writers
1. Sir Alexander Mackenzie (c. 1764–1820)
Fur trader, explorer, and bestselling writer
2. John Galt (1779–1839)
Canadian immigration specialist,
convict, and novelist
3. Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1786–1871)
Seigneur, convict in his own jail, and novelist
4. Charles Gordon/Ralph Connor
(1860–1937)
Man of the cloth and bestselling novelist
5. Sara Jeannette Duncan (1861–1922)
Journalist, world traveller, and novelist
6. Stephen Leacock (1869–1944)
Humorist, teacher, and honorary Scot
7. John McCrae (1872–1918)
Army surgeon and poet
8. Nellie McClung (1873–1951)
Vivid memoirist and legal person
9. Robert Service (1874–1958)
Glasgow cowboy and Yukon Gold Rush poet
10. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942)
Fiction writer and heart of the PEI tourist trade
11. John Buchan/Lord Tweedsmuir
(1875–1940)
Novelist, jack of all trades, and Governor General
12. Archibald Belaney/Grey Owl
(1888–1938)
Noble Indigenous leader, conservationist, and fake
13. Harold Innis (1894–1952)
The farm boy who changed Canada's universities
14. Donald Creighton (1902–1979)
Terrifying teacher and brilliant biographer
15. Charles Ritchie (1906–1995)
Diplomat, diarist, and lover
16. Hugh MacLennan (1907–1990)
Teacher, scholar, thinker, and writer
17. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006)
Dutton farm boy, economist, and author
of The Scotch
18. Robertson Davies (1913–1995)
Superb novelist, man of letters, and the last
Upper Canadian
19. W.O. Mitchell (1914–1998)
One-man prairie fire, with sparks from Ayrshire
20. James Houston (1921–2005)
Fine author and artist who brought the
world Inuit art
21. Farley Mowat (1921–2014)
The larger-than-life kilted character who
was one of our greatest writers
22. Mavis Gallant (1922–2014)
Montreal-born Parisienne and great
Canadian fiction writer
23. Donald Jack (1924–2003)
Forgotten comic genius, author of the
Bandy Papers series
24. George MacDonald Fraser
(1925–2008)
Scottish newsman who learned his trade
in Regina, before creating Flashman
25. Margaret Laurence (1926–1987)
Revered tribal leader of Canada's writers
26. Alice Munro (1931–)
Beloved author of some of the best
short stories the world has ever seen,
as her Nobel Prize demonstrates
27. Alistair MacLeod (1936–2014)
The magical fiction writer who reminds us
that "all of us are better when we're loved"
28. Margaret Atwood (1939–)
As a Canadian author, this leading
world figure is "not bad at all"
29. Graham Fraser (1946–)
A "first-class" Fraser, journalist, author,
and authority on Canada's official languages
30. Ken Dryden (1947–)
Not bad hockey goalie, and very good
writer and statesman
31. Ken McGoogan (1947–)
Author of many lively books, about the Arctic,
and about the Scots, including How the Scots
Invented Canada
32. Roy MacGregor (1948–)
Author of many fine books, above all the
Screech Owls hockey series for children
33. Val Ross (1950–2008)
Journalist, author of a Davies biography,
and the brave creator of "Val's Rules"
34. Terry Fallis (1959–)
Author of many light books of fiction, starting
with the Burns-inspired title The Best Laid Plans
35. Joseph Boyden (1966–)
The writer who raises unsettled questions about
settlers and their stories