Guess where? – Game 3

How to play this game:

  • Match each book cover image with the province or territory on the map where the book takes place.
  • Click on the image to enlarge it.
  • Click on the province for the answer.
  • For an extra challenge, guess the year the pictured edition was published.

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Next episode Image 2 Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image 6 Image 7 Image 8 Image 9 Image 10 Image 11 Image 12 Image 13 Yukon Northwest Territories Nunavut British Colombia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Ontario Quebec New Brunswick Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Text version

    Map of Canada depicting the provinces and territories with 13 numbered thumbnail images spread around the map. There is a blank spot on each province and territory where you can enter the number of the corresponding image.

    Match each book cover image with the province or territory on the map where the book takes place.

    • Image 1 – Next episode by Hubert Aquin
    • Image 2 – Mercy among the children by David Adams Richards
    • Image 3 – The amazing absorbing boy by Rabindranath Maharaj
    • Image 4 – The stone diaries by Carol Shields
    • Image 5 – The lesser blessed by Richard Van Camp
    • Image 6 – Obasan by Joy Kogawa
    • Image 7 – Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud)
    • Image 8 – The lost salt gift of blood by Alistair MacLeod
    • Image 9 – Medicine River by Thomas King
    • Image 10 – Who has seen the wind by W.O. Mitchell (William Ormond)
    • Image 11 – Random passage by Bernice Morgan
    • Image 12 – Split tooth by Tagaq
    • Image 13 – Songs of a sourdough by Robert W Service (Robert William)

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  • Answers

    All of the books come from the Library and Archives Canada collection.
    Here are the references and identification numbers (OCLC) of the books used in the game:

    1. Quebec.
      Next episode by Hubert Aquin, translated by Sheila Fischman. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2001.
      OCLC 46628107
    2. New Brunswick.
      Mercy among the children by David Adams Richards. New York : Arcade Pub., 2001.
      OCLC 46671064
    3. Ontario.
      The amazing absorbing boy by Rabindranath Maharaj. Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2011, c2010.
      OCLC 643662989
    4. Manitoba.
      The stone diaries by Carol Shields. Toronto : Vintage Books, [1994], ©1993.
      OCLC 30666364
    5. Northwest Territories.
      The lesser blessed by Richard Van Camp. Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, ©1996.
      OCLC 35926929
    6. British Columbia.
      Obasan by Joy Kogawa. Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1983, ©1981.
      OCLC 12461520
    7. Prince Edward Island.
      Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942. M A Claus (May Austin), 1882- (Illustrator). W A J Claus (Illustrator). Ronald I Cohen (Donor). Boston : L.C. Page & Co., 1908.
      OCLC 367111
    8. Nova Scotia.
      The lost salt gift of blood by Alistair MacLeod. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1989, ©1976.
      OCLC 19514374
    9. Alberta.
      Medicine River by Thomas King. Toronto : Penguin, 1995, ©1989.
      OCLC 968525893
    10. Saskatchewan.
      Who has seen the wind by W.O. Mitchell (William Ormond), 1914-1998. William Kurelek, 1927-1977 (Illustrator). Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1976.
      OCLC 3450782
    11. Newfoundland and Labrador.
      Random passage by Bernice Morgan. St. John's, Nfld. : Breakwater, ©1992.
      OCLC 25096056
    12. Nunavut.
      Split tooth by Tagaq. [Toronto, Ontario], Canada : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2018.
      OCLC 1044627430
    13. Yukon.
      Songs of a sourdough by Robert W Service (Robert William), 1874-1958. Toronto : William Briggs, 1907.
      OCLC 38964724 (copy 1907b)