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Hardy Boys Casefiles Discussion => Hardy Boys Casefiles => Topic started by: SDLagent on July 03, 2007, 02:54:55 PM

Title: Books set in Canada
Post by: SDLagent on July 03, 2007, 02:54:55 PM
I live in Canada so I?m always interested in Hardy Boys books that are sat in Canada.

Is there any Casefiles or Supermysteries sat in Canada?
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: SkyWarp on July 03, 2007, 05:23:26 PM
At least one that comes to me off the top of my head..

http://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/series/casefiles.php?book_no=028

Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: tomswift2002 on July 03, 2007, 08:08:00 PM
Others are:

The Viking Symbol Mystery (#42 Original Series)
The Short-Wave Mystery (#24 Original)
New Year's Evil (Supermystery '88)
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: SDLagent on July 04, 2007, 01:17:32 PM
I?ve read The Viking Symbol Mystery and The Short-Wave Mystery, but not New Year's Evil, all have to look around for it.

Thanks for the info. :)

Dos anybody else know of other Hardy Boys sat in Canada??
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: D.Hardy on July 07, 2007, 03:52:10 PM
Speed Times Five its a Digest
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: tomswift2002 on July 08, 2007, 07:48:46 PM
I think Speed Times Five is set near the Canadian border, but doesn't take place in Canada, or if it does, its for a page or two, then it is back to the U.S.
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: Sam Spade on September 01, 2007, 12:33:17 AM
I'm not sure about this becouse I have never read the The Twisted Claw, but I was on a wabsite called: 'The Hardy Boys Unofficial Online Resource' and they said that in the Revised, 1969 version of The Twisted Claw the Hardys went to Montreal, Stormwell and Port Manthon, Canada; Tambio and Cambrian Islands in the Caribbean; and Miami.

Here's a Link to the site.
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/5567/travel.html (http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/5567/travel.html)
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: SDLagent on September 01, 2007, 12:37:29 AM
Thanks!
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: tomswift2002 on September 01, 2007, 10:19:29 AM
In the original text, the Hardy's also went to Saint John, New Brunswick, although the text erronously calls the city St. John's, New Brunswick.  But I have to agree with the maker of that web page.  A lot of visitors, and even residents of Canada, tend to make that same mistake because the two cities have near identical names when you say them (the only difference is the "s" sound on the end of St. John's).

Quote from: Sam Spade on September 01, 2007, 12:33:17 AM
I'm not sure about this becouse I have never read the The Twisted Claw, but I was on a wabsite called: 'The Hardy Boys Unofficial Resource' and they said that in the Revised, 1969 version of The Twisted Claw the Hardys went to Montreal, Stormwell and Port Manthon, Canada; Tambio and Cambrian Islands in the Caribbean; and Miami.

Here's a Link to the site.
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/5567/travel.html (http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/5567/travel.html)
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: White Eagle on September 20, 2007, 10:43:38 AM
There was a casefile in Canada.  I think it was 43. Not sure.
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: tomswift2002 on September 20, 2007, 11:19:11 AM
#43 Strategic Moves was set in England with Stonehenge.   #28 Countdown to Terror takes place in Canada in Halifax.
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: Bigfootman on November 08, 2008, 06:41:05 AM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on July 03, 2007, 08:08:00 PM
Others are:

The Viking Symbol Mystery (#42 Original Series)
The Short-Wave Mystery (#24 Original)
New Year's Evil (Supermystery '88)
Deamon's den also has parts that take place in canada.
Title: Re: Books set in Canada
Post by: bozonessinc on November 11, 2008, 03:14:47 PM
Books set in Canada are "epic"!
Title: Re: Books set in Canada
Post by: 003Robin457 on November 16, 2008, 10:21:46 AM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on September 20, 2007, 11:19:11 AM
#43 Strategic Moves was set in England with Stonehenge.   #28 Countdown to Terror takes place in Canada in Halifax.
Oh yeah I read #28, pretty good.
Title: Re: Books sat in Canada
Post by: Bigfootman on September 19, 2010, 10:46:34 AM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on July 08, 2007, 07:48:46 PM
I think Speed Times Five is set near the Canadian border, but doesn't take place in Canada, or if it does, its for a page or two, then it is back to the U.S.
Speed Times Five takes place somewhere in Qubec, not sure where, don't really remember
Title: Re: Books set in Canada
Post by: tomswift2002 on September 19, 2010, 03:33:55 PM
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on September 19, 2010, 10:46:34 AM
Speed Times Five takes place somewhere in Qubec, not sure where, don't really remember

I think someone had better pull out their copy of the book to see.  Unfortunately I can't get to my copy right now since it is in a box ready for our move at the end of the month.
Title: Re: Books set in Canada
Post by: SDLagent on September 20, 2010, 09:34:35 PM
Well, Speed Times Five involves racing right? You should be able to figure out where it takes place in Qu?bec by looking-up the race tracks there.
Title: Re: Books set in Canada
Post by: tomswift2002 on September 22, 2010, 05:29:44 PM
Quote from: SDLagent on September 20, 2010, 09:34:35 PM
Well, Speed Times Five involves racing right? You should be able to figure out where it takes place in Qu?bec by looking-up the race tracks there.

Not really, since the author could've invented names for the race tracks.
Title: Re: Books set in Canada
Post by: SDLagent on September 22, 2010, 11:38:21 PM
But he might have based it on a real track. It's a long-shot, I know, but worth a try.
Title: Re: Books set in Canada
Post by: MacGyver on September 26, 2010, 03:53:24 PM
Okay, I have this book out right in front of me so I will try to answer this question. In "Speed Times Five",  the back of the book says that The Hardy Boys (along with Chet Morton and Jamal Watkins- this is a typo on the back of the book- he's clearly identified as Jamal Hawkins in the book itself- the same friend of the Hardys that shows up in a few other books toward the end of this series)- anyway, they go for the Fire Creek Mountain Race in Canada- which includes events like downhill mountain biking, kayaking, cross-country hiking and climbing, biking through the city streets of Montreal, and a high-speed SeaZoom race on Lake Champlain.
(Which sounds pretty cool actually- like the Iron Man events.) The first chapter of the book starts with The Hardys and Chet and Jamal crossing the USA/Canada border. It mentions they get on Highway 133 heading for Montreal. And they eventually go into the Laurentian Mountains.
So there's the extent of the Hardys' trip to Canada in this book.