Canada in fiction and nonfiction.

(In other words: Books either set in Canada or whose principal subject is Canada. Author doesn't need to be Canadian, nor do any and all books by Canadian authors automatically qualify just by virtue of their authors' nationality.)

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Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) That's the beauty of these lists ... :)

I find Canada endlessly fascinating -- nature, people, history, society, all of it. I can well understand that it's a heritage you're proud of!

So let's hope there will be many more contributions to this list ...


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Isn't Handmaid's Tale set in what used to be the U.S.?


message 3: by [deleted user] (last edited Feb 25, 2010 11:15PM) (new)

Cambridge Mass, I believe, but Atwood is Canadian.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Oh, I interpreted this list as the book being set there, whether the author was Canadian or not.


message 5: by Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) (last edited Feb 28, 2010 04:07AM) (new)

Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Susanna is right -- that's what I had in mind. Author's nationality is of no importance, but the book itself should principally be set in (or deal with) Canada or Canadians.

ETA: Same applies to "The English Patient," btw (and yes, a few of that novel's characters are actually Canadians -- but their nationality is merely incidental to the story line, not a central feature).


message 6: by Lobstergirl (new)

Lobstergirl I didn't realize. Someone can delete my Bellow books, then.


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Sorry. I'll try to be more specific in my list descriptions again in the future!


message 8: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (last edited Mar 01, 2010 12:56PM) (new)

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads OK, I'll delete Handmaid's Tale (great book though it is) and The English Patient, then.

Is there anything else I should remove?


message 9: by Ben (new)

Ben I'm all for claiming Saul Bellow as one of our own, but I don't believe Ravelstein is set in, or has anything to do with, Canada.


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Description doesn't sound like Ravelstein is set in Canada, no.

Should I delete it?


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Removed.

Also, what about the two books by William Shatner? Star Trek Memories seems to be a behind the scenes look at, well, Star Ship Enterprise and its crew. I'm not sure how much of that series was filmed in Canada (if any part of it at all)? Shatner's memoires (Up Till Now) probably have some connection to Canada to the extent they're dealing with his upbringing -- but does anybody happen to know how much of the book that actually covers?


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Susanna wrote: "OK, I'll delete Handmaid's Tale (great book though it is) and The English Patient, then."

Re-removed both.


message 13: by Capn (last edited Jul 31, 2022 04:45AM) (new)

Capn I was hoping perhaps a Librarian could add a record for this vintage book? :)

Cynthia Wins - A Tale of the Rocky Mountains
Bessie Marchant
"Cynthia was orphaned as a young child, and was raised in an institution. When she makes the decision to give up the chance of a good job to help take care of a sick woman who had been kind to her as a child, she embarks on a series of adventures."
London : Blackie and Son, 1918
ISBN: 0665852800 9780665852800

Edit: more, by the same author!

Harriet Goes a'Roaming
Bessie Marchant
"Harriet travels with a family friend who hopes to collect an inheritance in Canada, and finds that she must survive on her own."
London, Glasgow, [1923]
OCLC Number: 314920980

Her Own Kin: A Story of a Girl in Canada
Bessie Marchant
"A girl's guardians die without signing their wills, leaving her penniless."
London ; Glasgow : Blackie & Son, [1935?]
OCLC: 1314502439

His Great Surrender
Bessie Marchant
"John Caryl turns down the comfortable living in England offered to him by the bishop in order to devote himself to ministering to a group of rough miners in Canada."
London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1913?]
OCLC Number: 85002775

The Homesteader Girl
Bessie Marchant
"Rose and her brother Frank are trying to live on a homestead in British Columbia long enough to make it their own."
London : T. Nelson & Sons, [1932]
OCLC: 774673989
280 pages

and the wonderfully entitled:

Lesbia's Little Blunder
Bessie Marchant
"Lesbia and her younger siblings Jim and Sappy, are left in charge of the family store while their father gets medical help for their mother in a distant town. Lesbia makes a bad decision when she accepts some valuable papers to be held in the store's safe, and she and her brother and sister have many adventures trying to recover from the problems that result from this blunder."
F. Warne & Co.: London & New York, 1934.
OCLC: 562108675
288pp


message 14: by Capn (new)

Capn There's more - Bessie Marchant also wrote under the pseudonym John Comfort:

Don's Doings: A story of life in Western Canada
John Comfort (Bessie Marchant)
"Young Don is left on his own when his older brother does not come back from rounding up their cattle. He discovers that he can manage on his own, alone: he brings home someone else's herd of cattle that he runs into while looking for his own, he rescues a sick man and looks after him until he is well, and he locates the sick man's lost daughter. His many adventures convince him that he knows what he is doing, even though he is still young."
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000WU7TZC
1929

Nobby: A Son of Empire
John Comfort (Bessie Marchant)
"Noble "Nobby" Brown is determined to find the money that was stolen from his father."
London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : E.S. Gorham, [1914]
OCLC Number: 85105527
Notes: "Published under the direction of the Tract Committee."
Description: 120 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Responsibility: by John Comfort ; illustrated by Wal Paget.

On His Own: The adventures of a little English boy who went to Canada "on his own"
John Comfort (Bessie Marchant)
"Young Tom Brown is traveling with his older brother, Thack, to make a new life in a remote small town in Canada. Tom and his brother are separated, and Tom travels alone and has to manage by himself."
London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1918?]
OCLC Number: 145428361
Description: 112 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 color illustrations ; 19 cm

Probably will be impossible to find, but hey, listing for posterity's sake. :)


message 15: by Christine (new)

Christine Why is Jillian Jiggs on the list?


message 16: by Annie (new)

Annie Christine wrote: "Why is Jillian Jiggs on the list?"

It's set in Canada which is the one criteria for adding books to this list.


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