This chapter examines the suburban novel as a distinct genre in Canadian literature. Phyllis Brett Young’s The Torontonians (1960) may be recognized as the first Canadian instance of the genre, but MacLennan’s trio of “nationalist novels” published as early as in the 1940s is suggested to be also considered. MacLennan’s novels offer a philosophical frame related to the issue of nation-wide discussions on Canadian identity that the country was immersed into for decades, and they were part of that discussion. Brett Young’s novel is seen as fitting into MacLennan’s framework, and both novelists’ works as ones complementing the others. With this foundational context in mind, an analysis of five post-1960 novels by Bruce Wright, Barbara Gowdy, Gerald Lynch, Colin McAdam, and Carrianne Leung—published between 1970 and 2018—will be undertaken. Out of two layers of analysis, the first one will involve a comparative, imagologically oriented analysis of common thematic denominators such as the emergence and the anticipated inevitable decline of Canadian suburbs, the impact of materialism and consumerism on suburbanites, as well as a portrayal of human relationships against the backdrop constituted by the first two aspects. Based on this analysis, two additional questions will be addressed. The first one will attempt to determine whether the suburbs are reluctant to change in time. The second will examine the necessity of a strict distinction between the urban and the suburban while also exploring the potential implications of such a conceptual shift for individual novels in the analyzed corpus of texts.