As birds bring forth the sun / Alistair MacLeod The well of Dunrea / Gabrielle Roy The medicine line / Wallace Stegner Bring forth a wonder / George Bowering From "The first garden" / Anne Hebert The boy's own annual / Margaret Atwood My grandfather's house / Charles Ritchie The Halifax explosion / Hugh MacLennan The painted door / Sinclair Ross From "Swamp angel" / Ethel Wilson Spring and summer / Alice French Chronicle of Anse Saint-Roch / Jacques Ferron The lake / Joe Rosenblatt From "Blood ties" / David Adams Richards The accident / Joyce Marshall Some grist for Mervyn's mill / Mordecai Richler The concert stages of Europe / Jack Hodgins I'm dreaming of Rocket Richard / Clark Blaise Be fruitful and multiply / Madeleine Ferron The watcher / Guy Vanderhaeghe Antigone / Sheila Watson The rain child / Margaret Laurence The man from Mars / Margaret Atwood Leaving this island place / Austin Clarke The sins of Tomas Benares / Matt Cohen An intimate death / Marie-Claire Blais Ghosts at Jarry / Hugh Hood The Moslem wife / Mavis Gallant Roget's thesaurus / Keath Fraser The search for Petula Clark / Glenn Gould The naming of Albert Johnson / Rudy Wiebe King of the raft / Daniel David Moses Kill day on the government wharf / Audrey Thomas Arkendale / Sean Virgo Night travellers / Sandra Birdsell From "By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept" / Elizabeth Smart The only daughter / Leon Rooke Photograph / Dionne Brand Condolence visit / Rohinton Mistry Foreigners / Elisabeth Harvor Dreams / Timothy Findley From "Obasan" / Joy Kogawa We are all in the Ojibway Circle / John Kelly The history of Cambodia / Keath Fraser The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee Scenes / Carol Shields Miles City, Montana / Alice Munro L'envoi. The train to Mariposa / Stephen Leacock The closing down of summer / Alistair MacLeod