Read Across Canada: A 2013 Challenge discussion

Yukon - Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike

Northwest Territories Late Nights on Air

B.C (if it comes out in time)Chevy Stevens new novel Always Watching

Manitoba - A Complicated Kindness

Ontario - Canoe Lake (the story of Tom Thompson from Group of Seven Artists) or
Three Day Road or Through Black Spruce: A Novel (I still need to double check these locations are Ontario)

or something from Margaret Atwood
or Gail Bowen or Andrew Pyper

Quebec A Trick of the Light or Bride Of New France or Lullabies for Little Criminals

Newfoundland River Thieves or The Deception of Livvy Higgs

Newbrunswick - most likely David Adams Richards

Nova Scotia Rockbound or The Birth House

P.E.I - Lucy Maude Montgomery to be decided

Alberta Icefields

Saskatchewan The Last Crossing

I still need to research that the books I'm thinking about are actually in the correct location

Other potentialsFrancis Itani Requiem
The Disappeared
Touch

I believe that Through Black Spruce: A Novel is set in Ontario. The first book, Three Day Road was set in Ontario and Vimy Ridge.

Through Black Spruce looks interesting. The tags are Cree Indians, Coma patients, and Ontario.

Robin, both of Boyden's books are so amazing...and have pieces of Northern and Southern Ontario. The characters travel within the book, so beginning in Northern Ontario and travelling to the "outside," he is able to paint a beautiful reflective picture by using the alternate settings for the characters to better understand where they come from.

Boyden has got to be one of my favourite authors from Ontario...he does setting very very well.

Autumn wrote: "Robin, both of Boyden's books are so amazing...and have pieces of Northern and Southern Ontario. The characters travel within the book, so beginning in Northern Ontario and travelling to the "outsi..."

You make the books sound interesting, Autumn.

Melissa wrote: "Autumn wrote: "Robin, both of Boyden's books are so amazing...and have pieces of Northern and Southern Ontario. The characters travel within the book, so beginning in Northern Ontario and travellin..."

Oh that's nice! Thanks Melissa :) I don't have to work too hard, they are good ones.

You're welcome, Autumn.

Thanks for all of the feedback Autumn and Melissa and Asmah........so many Ontario authors seem amazing... definately the hardest province to narrow down.........

You're welcome, Robin.

Another book that I'm planning to read is The PurchaseI'm not sure how much Canadian content will be inside but it looks like it will reflect upon the life and journeys that would compare to many of the ancestors that founded a lot of Ontario towns, like mine, from Quakers moving north to begin a new life.

The Purchase sounds like an interesting book, Robin.

Robin wrote: "Another book that I'm planning to read is The PurchaseI'm not sure how much Canadian content will be inside but it looks like it will reflect upon the life and journeys that would compare to many o..."

It sounds like a compelling book, especially since Quakers usually did not buy slaves, but helped many escape to Canada through the Underground Railroad.