A couple of questions for Canadians

I spent some time going through Web pages with titles like "The 100 Best Canadian Books".

I was surprised that Gabrielle Roy wasn't on several of them – including the Globe and Mail and a CBC list from a couple of years ago. Marie-Claire Blais was under-represented as well. I do understand that picking lists off the Web is going to give me a wide range of opinions, levels of knowledge, personal preferences and prejudices, but I still found that to be pretty odd.

So my questions are:

• Is there a tendency to make room for more modern, or more diverse (immigrants, First Nations), writers on these types of things? (Lucy Maud Montgomery was everywhere.)
• Are people like Roy, Blais, maybe Morley Callaghan classed as people who every Canadian should know about to begin with and don't need another mention? (Robertson Davies and Margaret Laurence showed up a little more frequently, though maybe not as much as I would have expected.)
• Is there a tendency to put Francophone and Anglophone writers into different categories, unconsciously or otherwise?

I thought The Tin Flute might be the best Depression novel I've ever read. The follow-up, Where Nests the Water Hen, couldn't have been more different, and I thought it might have been even better. I've got a couple more books by Roy coming in through ILL, and I'll write something on this sub one of these weeks.

One final question: I read ebooks when I can, and the New Canadian Library seems not to be available in that format, except for a couple of early titles that Faded Page was able to put up. I don't think there's a place that carries more Canadian content than Amazon or Kobo (I avoid Amazon when I can anyway, but is the content significantly different from the one I'd get in the United States?), but if there is, I'd certainly like to know about it.

Thanks.