Read Across Canada: A 2013 Challenge discussion

Afterlands To me, this is quintessential historical fiction. It is a fictional retelling of a historical event (the fated Polaris Expedition). It goes one step further and creates a completely fictional ending of what happens to the characters after they were rescued.

The Terror

Windflower by Gabrielle Roy. The setting is Kuujjuak, which is officially in Nunavut (though it was previously part of Quebec.)

Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923
Ajjiit: Dark Dreams of the Ancient Arctic
White Lies about the Inuit
Consumption: A novel
Rankin Inlet

Janice wrote: "Afterlands To me, this is quintessential historical fiction. It is a fictional retelling of a historical event (the fated Polaris Expedition). It goes one step further and creates a completely f..."

Janice, I can't wait to read Afterlands...so interested in this story! And I love the true mystery.

I'm adding Karin Lowachee's book The Gaslight Dogs to two northern territories, because technically it is a steampunk novel based on the Inuit but not quite. I know some of us look for books that are slightly different for challenges like this, and this would fall under the speculative fiction category.

The Ice Child

Coppermine takes place in Nunavut, the NWT and Alberta.

White Heat The author is not Canadian, but the book takes place in a modern-day, albeit fictional, village on Ellesmere Island.

The Snow Walker, a collection of stories by Farley Mowat - wonderful!

I am presently reading Farley Mowat's No Man's River, it is set in northern Manitoba and Nunavut. I am loving it.