Homelessness and Welfare
Acorn, Milton. I’ve Tasted My Blood: Poems 1956-1968. 1969. Toronto: Steel Rail Educational, 1978. [Poetry]
---. “The Canadian Statue of Liberty Speaks to the U.S. Draft Dodgers.” I’ve Tasted 95.
---. “Canadian Winter.” I’ve Tasted 55.
---. “Cynicism.” I’ve Tasted 45.
---. “The Fights.” I’ve Tasted 42-43.
---. “I’ve Tasted My Blood.” I’ve Tasted 1.
---. “I Will Arise and Go Now.” I’ve Tasted 44.
---. “Only a Recession.” I’ve Tasted 63.
---. “Poem with Fat Cats in the Background.” I’ve Tasted 56.
---. “Rooming House.” I’ve Tasted 18.
---. “View from a Time Machine.” I’ve Tasted 71.
L’Armée de l’ombre. Dir. Manon Barbeau. NFB, 1999. [Film]
Basilières, Michel. Black Bird. Toronto: Knopf, 2003. [Novel]
Baxter, Sheila. No Way to Live: Poor Women Speak Out. Vancouver: New Star, 1988. [Oral History]
---. Under the Viaduct: Homeless in Beautiful B.C. Vancouver: New Star, 1991. [Oral History]
Beresford-Howe, Constance. The Book of Eve. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973. [Novel]
Birney, Earl. “Anglosaxon Street.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 106-7. [Poetry]
Bishop-Stall, Shaughnessy. Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown. Toronto: Random, 2004. [Reportage]
Les Bougon, c’est aussi ça la vie! By François Avard and Jean-François Mercier. Dir. Louis Bolduc. Prod. Fabienne Larouche and Michel Trudeau Aetios. Radio-Canada. 7 Jan. 2004-17 Apr. 2006. [TV]
Brand, Dionne. At the Full and Change of the Moon. Toronto: Knopf, 1999. [Novel]
---. No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920’s-1950’s. Toronto: Women’s P, 1991. [Oral History]
Broadfoot, Barry. The Immigrant Years: From Europe to Canada, 1945-1967. Vancouver: Douglas, 1986. [Oral History]
---. Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939: Memories of Canadians Who Survived the Depression. Don Mills, ON: Paper Jacks, 1975. [Oral History]
Cameron, Anne. Aftermath. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1999. [Novel]
---. Kick the Can. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1991. [Novel]
---. The Whole Fam Damily. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1995. [Novel]
Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed. Toronto: McClelland, 1973. [Life Writing]
Collier, Diana G. The Invisible Women of Washington. Atlanta; Ottawa: Clarity, 1987. [Novel]
The Diary of Evelyn Lau. Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson. CBC, 1993. [Film Adaptation of Evelyn Lau’s Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid]
Dohaney, Myrtis T. The Corrigan Women. Charlottetown, PEI: Ragweed; Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1988. [Novel]
Ellis, Deborah. Looking for X. Toronto: Douglas, 1999. [Novel for Young Adults]
English, Sharon. “The Cosmic Elfs.” Zero Gravity. Erin, ON: Porcupine’s Quill, 2006. 9-30. [Short Story]
---. “Ship of Fools.” Zero Gravity. Erin, ON: Porcupine’s Quill, 2006. 127-46. [Short Story]
Faessler, Shirley. “A Basket of Apples.” Atlantic Monthly (1969). Rpt in Women in Canadian Literature. Ed. M.G. Hesse. Ottawa: Borealis, 1976. 137-47. [Short Story]
---. Everything in the Window. Toronto: McClelland, 1979. [Novel]
---. “Henye.” Tamarack Review 56 (1971). Rpt in The Narrative Voice: Short Stories and
Reflections by Canadian Authors. Ed. John Metcalf. Toronto; New York: McGraw, 1972. 28-47. [Short Story]
Flaherty, Martha. “I Fought to Keep My Hair.” Northern Voices: Inuit Writing in English. Ed. Penny Petrone. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1988. 274-78. [Personal Essay]
Garner, Hugh. “Another Time, Another Place, Another Me.” Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. Rev. ed. Toronto: Gage, 1974. 410-14. [Short Story]
Gibb, Camilla. The Petty Details of So-and-So’s Life. Toronto: Doubleday. 2002. [Novel]
Holding Our Ground.Dir. Anne Henderson. NFB, 1988. [Film]
Holmes, Nancy. “Bugs.” Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry by and about Women. Ed. Greta Hoffman Nemiroff. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry, 1989. 192-97. [Short Story]
Huston, Nancy. Instruments des ténèbres. Arles: Actes Sud; Montréal: Leméac, 1996. [Novel]
---. Instruments of Darkness. Trans. Nancy Huston. Boston; Toronto: Little, 1997. [Translation of Nancy Huston’s Instruments des ténèbres]
In the Gutter and Other Good Places. Dir. Cristine Richey. Barking at the Moon Productions, 1993. [Film]
Kearns, Lionel. “Environment.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 321. [Poetry]
Lau, Evelyn. Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid. Toronto: Harper, 1989. [Life Writing]
Laurence, Margaret. The Diviners. Toronto: McClelland, 1974. [Novel]
Lowry, Malcolm. “Christ Walks in this Infernal District Too.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 138. [Poetry]
McLachlan, Alexander. “We Live in a Rickety House.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 10-11. [Poetry]
Mettrick, Alan. Last in Line: On the Road and Out of Work: A Desperate Journey with Canada’s Unemployed. Toronto: Key Porter, 1985. [Reportage]
Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. Toronto: Knopf, 1996. [Novel]
Montero, Gloria. Billy Higgins Rides the Freights. Toronto: Lorimer, 1982. [Novel for Young Adults]
Moritz, A.F. “Social Reflection.” Conflicting Desire. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis, 2000. 34. [Poetry]
New, W.H. Nightroom. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan, 2003. [Poetry]
Of Hopscotch and Little Girls.Dir. Marquise Lepage. NFB, 1999. [Film]
Richards, David Adams. The Friends of Meagre Fortune. Toronto: Doubleday, 2006. [Novel]
Ross, Veronica. Fisherwoman. Porter’s Lake, NS: Pottersfield, 1984. [Novel]
Roy, Gabrielle. Bonheur d’occasion. Montréal: Beauchemin, 1945. [Novel]
Ryan.Dir. Chris Landreth. NFB, 2004. [Film]
Schram, Mary Lou Peters. “Eviction.” Room of One’s Own 15.1 (March 1992): 20-34. [Short Story]
Scott, F.R. “Vagrant.” Canadian Anthology. Ed. Carl F. Klinck and Reginald E. Watters. Rev. ed. Toronto: Gage, 1974. 261. [Poetry]
Selvadurai, Shyam, ed. Story-Wallah!: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2004. [Short Story]
Silman, Janet. Enough Is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out. Toronto: Women’s P, 1987. [Oral History]
Smith, A.J.M. “The Common Man.” The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Comp. Margaret Atwood. Toronto: OUP, 1982. 99-101. [Poetry]
Souster, Raymond. Collected Poems of Raymond Souster Volume 4, 1974-77. Ottawa: Oberon, 1983. [Poetry]
---. “Beggar.” Collected Poems 119.
---. “On the Traffic Island.” Collected Poems 74.
---. “Decision on King Street.” Selected Poems of Raymond Souster.Ed. Michael Macklem. Ottawa: Oberon, 1972. 68. [Poetry]
---. Ten Elephants on Yonge Street. Toronto: Ryerson, 1965. [Poetry]
---. “The Drunk Down the Street.” Ten Elephants 55.
---. “The Fire in the Tenement.” Ten Elephants 50.
---. “Memory of Bathurst Street.” Ten Elephants 80.
---. Going the Distance. Ottawa: Oberon, 1983. [Poetry]
---. “Adrift.” Going 114.
---. “Old Couples.” Going 140.
---. “Panhandler.” Collected Poems of Raymond Souster Volume Two, 1955-62.Ottawa: Oberon, 1981. 26. [Poetry]
---. “Roller Skate Man.” The Colour of the Times: The Collected Poems of Raymond Souster. Toronto: Ryerson, 1964. 21. [Poetry]
---. So Far So Good: Poems 1938/1968. Ottawa: Oberon, 1969. [Poetry]
---. “Battered.” So Far n.pag.
---. “The Disgrace.” So Far n.pag.
---. “Gerrard Street East.” So Far n.pag.
---. “Junk Man on Front Street.” So Far n.pag.
---. “Rag and Bones Man.” So Far n.pag.
---. “What the Camera Never Catches.” So Far n.pag.
---. “Wino at the Intersection.” Riding the Long Black Horse. Ottawa: Oberon, 1993. 21. [Poetry]
The Street: A Film with the Homeless. Dir. Daniel Cross. NFB, 1997. [Film]
Szucsany, Desiré. “The Suitcase.” Celebrating Canadian Women: Prose and Poetry by and about Women. Ed. Greta Hoffman Nemiroff. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry, 1989. 355-58. [Short Story]
Thrasher, Anthony Apakark, Gerard Deagle, and Alan Mettrick. Thrasher – Skid Row Eskimo. Toronto: Griffin, 1976. [Life Writing]
Through a Blue Lens. Dir. Veronica Alice Mannix. NFB, 1999. [Film]
Tracey, Lindalee. On the Edge: A Journey into the Heart of Canada. Vancouver: Douglas, 1993. [Reportage/Travel Narrative]
Urquhart, Jane. The Stone Carvers. Toronto: McClelland, 2001. [Novel]
Wesley-Desmond, Gloria. “Back Alley Tramp.” Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing. Vol. 2. Ed. George Elliott Clarke. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield, 1992. 66-67. [Poetry]
Wiseman, Adele. Crackpot. Toronto: McClelland, 1974. [Novel]
Compiled by Michelle Ariss and Roxanne Rimstead