Literature

Canadian. Canadian Literature includes the works not only of authors born on Canadian soil, but also of British and French writers who have settled in Canada. The earliest literature consists of histories and discoveries. Among French writers in this line, Champlain and Charlevoix may be mentioned, and, among those who wrote in English, Hearne and Mackenzie. Many poets and writers of fiction have produced excellent work. The Anglo Canadian literature is naturally of more interest to the American student than the French-Canadian. In poetry, the names of C. G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Gilbert Parker are well known. The last named is also a novelist. Palmer Cox, author of the Brownie Books, F. B. Crofton, who wrote The Major's Big Talk Stories, and Miss M. M. Saunders, author of Beautiful Joe, are Anglo-Canadian authors. See Champlain; Canada; Roberts; Carman; Parker