Canadian literature!

Canadian literature is so vast and rich that I feel very unqualified to make a list about it.  There is something very beautiful and sad about the way writers portray Canada, as this conflicted yet diverse space, full of different cultures, long histories, and dynamic power relations.  I can't say I've read all the Canadian classics, but here are a few novels that I feel are inherently "Canadian" that I have come to love:

1. Beautiful Losers: Also one of my favourite books in general, Leonard Cohen paints two very different scenes of Canada: one from colonial times that portrays a young Mohawk saint called Catherine Tekakwitha as she transgresses from her culture to Christianity; and another contemporary portrait of a love triangle among the nameless protagonist, his wife, and his best friend, F.  Cohen is able to wrangle transgressive 20th century topics, such as heresy, bigamy, and homosexuality while retaining a certain air of timelessness in this novel.
2. Three Day Road: If I didn't have to read this for class, I would have probably passed it over.  However, I'm glad I didn't.  There is something about fraternal bonds that I find surpasses a traditional romantic bond in literature.  Joseph Boyden's  Three Day Road deals with two young Cree men, Elijah and Xavier, as they engage in World War One, while also facing the effects of cultural colonialism and European influence in Canada. 
3. The Underpainter: This novel's ending broke my heart, but I won't give it away.  The Underpainter is another war-novel that chronicles the life of an American painter who falls in love with a Canadian woman, yet distances himself from her as he does the Canadian landscape in his work.  I found the binarism created between Canadian and American culture to be subtle yet inherent to the novel upon a closer look.  Each character is carefully constructed, and is complicated in a very unique way, making the narrative rich and complex, and leaving the ending unresolved.  Jane Urquhart writes this novel beautifully.
4. In the Skin of a Lion: I must confess, I love the way Michael Ondaatje writes.  I much prefer The English Patient to this novel, but the way Ondaatje describes Toronto in the early 20th century is almost too vivid to be words on paper.  For me, there is a strange nostalgia for a time I will never know in a city that has changed dramatically over the past century that is inextricable from the way Ondaatje writes.