Know your Canadian literary characters

Many Canadian literary characters are known and loved by readers around the world. How well do you know the characters that grace Canadian literature? Each sentence below provides a clue to one of these well-known fictional figures. See if you can match the clue to the name.

This imaginative eleven-year-old orphan grows up in Prince Edward Island.
This character, who first appears in a trilogy as a little boy, is born in a small Mediterranean village and then moves to southwestern Ontario.
As an eleven-year-old, this character is orphaned and crosses an ocean; she eventually settles in Nova Scotia as an adult.
This character “fell burning in the desert” from a plane.
This entrepreneurial character grows up on St. Urbain Street in Montréal and dreams of becoming wealthy.
This character is known for his flippant remarks about colonial life in Nova Scotia.
This character lives in the fictitious prairie town of Manawaka, Manitoba.

Date modified: 2021-08-19

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Know your Canadian literary characters

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