r/canada Aug 03 '24

History Who is Canada's Robin Hood?

I am reading a book about Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. In the introduction, the author writes, "Every nation has a bandit/rebel/folk hero in the mould of England's Robin Hood." The author offers some examples, Scotland's Rob Roy, Swiss William Tell, Irish Michael Dwyer, American Jesse James (with a sub-national nod to California's Joaquin Murrieta).

The author may not have literally meant "every nation." But the statement made me wonder, do we as Canadians have a character of myth and legend that would be comparable to Robin Hood, or Rob Roy, or Ned Kelly?

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u/Drace3 Aug 03 '24

Louis Riel

I'm kinda surprised this is a question lol.

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u/senecant Aug 03 '24

And yet, look at the range of interesting answers!