Notes from Edmund Wilson always make interesting reading. Admitting his own lack of familiarity with Canadian culture, he is nonetheless informative when it comes to a personal view of politics and literature in Eastern Canada, especially with regard to the French/English divide, so much in focus in the sixties.
He firstly presents a fulsome critique of Morely Callaghan, novelist, ranking him among the greats. This caused some consternation at the time, but having read Callaghan, I rate him highly too. (He's also famous for putting Ernest Hemingway away in a boxing match between the writers in Twenties Paris).
Wilson takes time to review some of the French Canadian writers who, at that time were confined to catering to their own culture solely.
The dominance of the Catholic Church in Quebec culture and politics is another theme. In Wilson's treatment, the Church was the only established repository of French culture functioning until the struggle for adequate recognition in the whole country began in the sixties. This in the face of disdain and disregard from the English majority.
Worth reading at a remove of sixty years as much has happened in Canada since. Regardless, it is worth taking note of the contemporaneous situation there, seen through the eyes of an astute and singular critic of Twentieth Century writing and art.