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Stories reflecting the diverse cultures of Canada — from French settlers to First Nations oral traditions.
A wooden canoe flying across the moonlit sky with lumberjacks inside from French-Canadian folklore

La Chasse-Galerie (The Flying Canoe)

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October 27, 2025
Long ago, in the deep frozen forests of Quebec, a group of lumberjacks worked through a bitterly cold winter. They lived far from home, surrounded by endless pines and the silence of snow. Their days were filled with hard labor, cutting trees from dawn to dusk. At night, they sat around the fire in their cabin, drinking and singing to
Kiviuq, the Inuit hero, standing on Arctic ice beneath the northern lights, holding his paddle as he journeys onward

Kiviuq (The Eternal Wanderer Hero)

October 28, 2025
In the farthest reaches of the Arctic, where the land meets the frozen sea and the wind never truly rests, there lives a legend that has been told for countless generations. It is the story of Kiviuq, the eternal wanderer, the man who journeyed farther than any other and lived
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Candlelit village dance where a stranger’s cloven hooves reveal the Devil in a French-Canadian folktale

The Devil at the Dance (Le Diable au Bal)

October 27, 2025
In the deep winters of old Quebec, when the snow lay thick upon the rooftops and the rivers were frozen in silence, the people of the small parishes found warmth not only in their hearths but in their gatherings. Dances were a cherished escape from the cold and the monotony
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Rose Latulipe dancing with the Devil at midnight in a candle-lit Quebec home from French-Canadian folklore

The Legend of Rose Latulipe

October 27, 2025
In the heart of a small Quebec village, nestled among rolling hills and snow-covered trees, there once lived a young woman named Rose Latulipe. She was known throughout the region for her beauty, charm, and love of dancing. Wherever there was music, laughter, and the sound of a fiddle, Rose
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Gluskabe defeating the Stone Giant by fire, with glowing rocks forming the landscape in Wabanaki folklore

The Stone Giant and the Hero Gluskabe

October 27, 2025
In the time when the world was still young, before humans had learned the full language of the wind and the water, great beings of power walked across the earth. Some were spirits of good who shaped the mountains and guided the rivers. Others were born from greed and hunger,
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Sedna with long flowing hair surrounded by sea creatures from Inuit mythology

Sedna, Goddess of the Sea

October 27, 2025
In the frozen lands of the far north, where the wind howls across endless fields of snow and the sea glitters with cold light, the people tell of a woman whose sorrow shaped the oceans. Her name is Sedna, and she is both a goddess and a warning. Her story
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The Loup-Garou and the Broken Rosary

October 17, 2025
In the parish of Trois-Rivières, when the maples wore frost like lace and barns ticked with settling wood, people warned children against the loup-garou—a cursed soul that prowled on four legs until a promise was kept or a kindness given. It wasn’t always a wolf, they said, but it was
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The Flying Canoe of Saint-Jean

October 17, 2025
There are winters in Quebec so deep that time itself seems to freeze, and men in the logging camps count their days by the creak of the pines. On New Year’s Eve, when the cook boiled beans and the fiddle scraped jigs by the stove, the men of Camp Saint-Jean
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