This course will introduce students to Canadian multicultural literatures; and it will address the complexities of and intersections between culture and language. The course will begin by considering the Canadian Multiculturalism Act; and will address how and why the Act emerged int he context of the Biculturalism and Bilingualism Act. With these state implemented documents in mind; we will examine representative works of literature by and about immigrants and Aboriginal peoples. We will focus on writing in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; but we will also consider the history if immigration policy; and we will address Canada's cultural representations of the immigrant in relation to its representations of Aboriginal peoples.