Following World War II, writers such as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Norman Levine, Margaret Laurence and Irving Layton added to the Modernist influence to Canadian literature previously introduced by F. R. Scott, A. J. M. Smith and others associated with the McGill Fortnightly.
After 1967, the country's centennial year, the national government increased funding to publishers and numerous small presses began operating throughout the country [REF].