T.C. HALIBURTON, our first humorist, was regional in his recording of the dialects and folkways of pre-Confederation Nova Scotia; Charles G.D. ROBERTS depicted the New Brunswick landscape, particularly in Songs of the Common Day (1893); D.C. SCOTT evoked several northern settings in his narratives of Indian life.
Notre premier humoriste, T.C. HALIBURTON, est régional lorsqu'il consigne les dialectes et les coutumes de la Nouvelle-Écosse d'avant la Confédération. Charles G.D. ROBERTS dépeint les paysages du Nouveau-Brunswick, en particulier dans Songs of the Common Day (1893).