Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 2010- the Present
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Final Episode: Funny You Don't Look Like One, Joseph Boyden, Dany Laferriere, David Adams Richards, Alice Munro
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 2000-2010
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Episode 15: Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief, Alan Fry and Indigenous writers Thomas King, Richard Wagamese, Eden Robinson, and Harold Johnson, Marie Claire Blais, Wayne Johnson, Newfoundland.
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1990-2000
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Episode 14: More diverse writers emerge, Michael Ondaatje, Carol Shields, Rohinton Mistry, Antonine Maillet and the Acadian Ethnic Cleansing
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1980-1990
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Episode 13: Canadian Literature in full bloom,Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Yves Beauchemin, Pierre Trudeau, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Saskatchewan
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1970 -1980
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Episode 12: Paul Henderson's Goal, Mordecai Richler, Anne Hebert and Kamouraska, Alligator Pie, Jack Hodgins, Vancouver Island
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1960-1970
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Episode 11: Oscar Peterson and Martin Luther King, Margaret Laurence, De Gaulle and the FLQ, Jacques Ferron
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1950 -1960s
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Episode 10: The Prosperous Decade, Glenn Gould, Lester Pearson's Nobel Peace Prize, John Diefenbaker and me, Robertson Davies, James Houston and Inuit Art, Yves Theriault and Agaguk.
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers: 1940 -1950
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Episode 9: The Second World War, Gabrielle Roy, Hugh MacLennan, Roger Lemelin, W.O. Mitchell
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Canada"s Greatest Storytellers 1930-1940
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Episode 8: The Ten Lost Years of The Depression, Barry Broadfoot, Morley Callaghan,More Joy in Heaven, Philippe Panneton/Ringuet, Thirty Acres
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Canada's Greatest Storytellers,1920 - 1930
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Episode 7: Roaring Twenties, Group of Seven, Stephen Leacock,Orilla, McGill, Prix Goncourt
info_outlineThe 1972 hockey showdown with Russia was a central moment for all Canadians, including the great hockey fan Mordecai Richler, who returned to Montreal after his apprenticeship in England. In French his equivalent was Anne Hebert, a Quebecoise exile in Paris for many years. Unlike Mavis Gallant, she found that living in Paris did not harm her Canadian standing. Her 1970 novel Kamouraska was hailed as the best Quebec novel written in French.
Thanks to Dennis Lee's Alligator Pie, children's books took off in Canada, and thanks to Vancouver Island's Jack Hodgins, magic realism reached Canada's shores.