Betts, Gregory2009-08-112009-08-1120092009-08-11http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1492The Wyndham Lewis and Modernism symposium was a one day event organized by the University of Victoria Libraries as part of The Lion and the Fox exhibition. The exhibition, which ran from April 1-May 28, 2009 at the Mearns Centre for Learning, celebrated C.J. Fox’s donation of the material he collected about Lewis and other non-conformist writers over a 50 year period.This paper on Vorticism and Futurism in Canadian literature explores three specific examples of Wyndham Lewis’s influence on Canadian authors and begins the process of proposing a Canadian Vorticism. The authors under consideration include Marshall McLuhan, Sheila Watson, and Bertram Brooker – three of Canada’s most acclaimed figures in cultural theory, novels, and art, respectively.enCanadian literatureCanadian artLewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957ModernismVorticismFuturismWyndham Lewis and ModernismArticle