High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The New Canadian Library is a publishing imprint of the Canadian company McClelland and Stewart. The series aims to present classic works of Canadian literature in paperback. Each work published in the series includes a short essay by another notable Canadian writer, discussing the historical context and significance of the work. These essays were originally forewords, but after McClelland and Stewart`s 1985 sale to Avie Bennett, the prefatory material was abandoned and replaced by afterwords.