Explore Canada in Books for Teens and Adults

Sustainers

Trauma Farm by Brian Brett

Artists & Storytellers

Susanna Moodie: Pioneer Author by Anne Cimon

Susanna Moodie: Roughing it in the Bush by Carol Shields and Patrick Crowe, adapted by Willow Dawson, ill. by Selena Goulding

The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie: a Novel by Cecily Ross

Sisters in Two Worlds: a Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill by Michael Peterman, intro. by Charlotte Gray

Paul Kane, the Artist: Wilderness to Studio by Kenneth R. Lister et al.

Glenn Gould: a Life off Tempo by Sandrine Revel

L.M. Montgomery by Jane Urquhart

Emily Carr by Lewis DeSoto

Mordecai Richler by M.G. Vassanji

Stephen Leacock by Margaret MacMillan

Glenn Gould by Mark Kingwell

Lives of Mothers & Daughters: Growing up with Alice Munro by Sheila Munro

Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon by Enid Mallory

John McCrae: Beyond Flanders Fields by Susan Raby-Dunne

Explorers

David Thompson: the Epic Expeditions of a Great Canadian Explorer by Graeme Pole (1770-1857)

No Ordinary Woman: the Story of Mary Schäffer Warren by Janice Sandford Beck (1861-1939)

The Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Prescott Fay's 1914 Expedition to the Northern Rockies by Samuel Fay (1884-1971)

Inventors

Canadian Inventions: Fantastic Feats and Quirky Contraptions by Lisa Wojna

Ingenious: How Canadian Innovators Made the World Smarter, Smaller, Kinder, Safer, Healthier, Wealthier, and Happier by David Johnston & Tom Jenkins

Warriors & Peacemakers

Nellie McClung by Charlotte Gray

Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont by Joseph Boyden

Canadian Spies: Tales of Espionage in Nazi-Occupied Europe During WWII by Tom Douglas

Bold, Brave, and Born to Lead: Major General Isaac Brock and the Canadas by Mary Fryer

Canada at War: a Graphic History of World War Two by Paul Keery, ill. by Michael Wyatt

Newcomers

Marie-Anne: the Incredible Story of Louis Riel's Grandmother by Maggie Siggins