Contents:

• Introduction: The Canadian Short Story by Raymond Knister
• Last Spring They Came Over by Morley Callaghan
• The Weather Breeder by Merrill Denison
• The Chase of the Tide by Norman Duncan
• Remembrance by Walter McLaren Imrie
• The Man Who Slept Till Noon by Will E. Ingersoll
• The Great Election in Missinaba County by Stephen Leacock
• The Root House by Leslie McFarlane
• Susie and Perce by Thomas Murtha
• Sir Watson Tyler by Harvey O'Higgins
• The Epaulettes by Sir Walter Gilbert Parker
• The Men Who Climbed by Marjorie L. C. Pickthal
• A Gentleman in Feathers by Charles G. D. Roberts
• The Cure by Mazo de la Roche
• Labrie's Wife by Duncan Campbell Scott
• The Essence of a Man by Alan Sullivan
• The Privilege of the Limits by Edward William Thomson
• "He Who Laughs Last--!" by Frederick William Wallace
  Appendix:
• List of Canadian Short Stories in Books and Magazines
• Books of Short Stories by Canadian Authors