Chris Dropped Out of a Can Lit Class, because the list was terrible--if i was going to teach a can lit class--this is what i would choose: (it would have to be two semesters)

novels:
the stone angel--lawerence
Paul's Case--Crosbie
the bear--marian engel
microserfs--coupland
kiss of the fur queen--thomson highway
beautiful losers--cohen
swann--Shields

short story collections:
wilderness tips--atwood
the paris stories--gallant
the lives of girls and women--munro
The Lamp at Noon and Other Short Stories--Ross
A Couple from Valgardsen
Roy-the Hidden Mountain

essays:
Surrival--Atwood
A Lovers Qaurrell--Carmine Starnino
Timothy Findley--From Stage to Page
Mordechai Richler--On Snooker

diaries, memoirs, etc
Roughing it in the Bush Susan Moodie
Runaway-Evelyn Lau
Loose End-Ivan Coyote
The Diaries of Franklin
Baltimores Mansion--Wayne Johnson
Mrs Mike

poetry
The Circle Game--Atwood
un--Dennis Lee
The Seed Catalog--Kroestch
E Pauline Johnson--The White Wampum
Anne Carson's translations of Sappho
Euonia-Bok

Drama
love and human remains--brad frasier
the xtc of rita joe--Ryga
The Stories of Edward--Tremblay