Includes biographies of Frances Brooke, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, John Richardson, Other Writers of the 19th Century, Thomas Haliburton, William Kirby, Gilbert Parker, Charles G.D. Roberts, Ernest Thompson Seton, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Stephen Leacock, Robert Stead, Ralph Connor, Martha Ostenso, Frederick Philip Grove, Raymond Knister, W.O. Mitchell, Sinclair Ross, Morley Callaghan, Hugh MacLennan, Thomas Raddall, Ernest Buckler, Adele Wiseman, Hugh Garner, Ethel Wilson, Robertson Davies, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Clark Blaise, John Metcalf, Sheila Watson, Hugh Hood, Norman Levine, Mavis Gallant, Audrey Thomas, Leon Rooke, Margaret Atwood, Rudy Wiebe, Marian Engel, Margaret Laurence, Matt Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Dave Godfrey, Robert Kroetsch, Jack Hodgins, and Robert Harlow.