What is a Nation? – The Construction of National Identity – (The Tradition of) Inventing the Canadian Nation – Inventing the Nation Forged in Fire – The World at War: The First World War as the Great War – Canada at War: The First World War as Hotbed for Inventing the Canadian Nation – The Nation Forged in Fire-Myth in Contemporary Memorial Culture – The Literary Reconstruction of the Canadian Nation Forged in Fire – Concussion and a Translocation of the Nation’s Birthplace: Hugh MacLennan’s Barometer Rising – The Paradoxical Community of Isolated Individuals: Timothy Findley’s The Wars – The Returned Soldiers’ Need for Community: Jack Hodgins’ Broken Ground – The Canadian National Vimy Memorial and a New Epic Tale of the Birth of the Nation: Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers – The (Dis)Ability Issue: Frances Itani’s Deafening – The Native Point of View: Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road