July 7, 2026

The Canadian short story writer Alice Munro, who later won the Nobel Prize, lived in Victoria, British Columbia during the years she published her first books and helped start Munro's Books. In her 2012 story 'Train', the main character heads for which small northern Ontario mill town, hoping to find work in the timber trade in the early 1960s?

A Kitchener
B Saskatoon
C Kapuskasing
D Carmacks

Nobel laureate Alice Munro lived in Victoria while she published her first story collections and co-founded Munro's Books. In her 2012 story 'Train', Alice Munro sends the main character to the northern Ontario mill town of Kapuskasing in hope of work in the lumbering trade.

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