# Legends of Vancouver — Character guide

> Key figures in Legends of Vancouver by E. Pauline Johnson.

- [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/unknown_narrator.md): This unnamed first-person presence moves through coastal villages, steamers, and campfires, always asking the second question that opens a legend. The tension is one of belonging: the narrator claims kinship with the tel
- [Chief Capilano](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/chief_capilano.md): Capilano stands at the center of the Deer Lake legend, a hunter whose skill with the spear is unmatched along the Fraser. His flaw is obsession: when the magic weapon returns to him through a giant seal's carcass, he spe
- [The Great Tyee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/the_great_tyee.md): In the Legend of the Island of Dead Men, this greatest of southern chiefs watches his warriors fall until only a conference can save them. He is brave to the point of recklessness, mounting an exposed rock while a thousa
- [Pauline Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/pauline_johnson.md): Johnson appears in her own book as the frame and the conscience behind it, an invalid whose friends collected her later works so the legends could reach print. She is a traveler who ran strange rivers and camped in unfre
- [Prince Arthur](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/prince_arthur.md): A visiting royal figure who appears in a legend about a Mohawk chief.
- [Sagalie Tyee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/sagalie_tyee.md): In Squamish cosmology the Sagalie Tyee is the benevolent power who planned the ultimate triumph of good over evil, hiding a cursed stone where no foot follows and raising merciful men into the Cathedral Trees. The tensio
- [Shak-shak](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/shak_shak.md): A legendary figure or spirit associated with a specific story, possibly a trickster.
- [Napoleon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/napoleon.md): The historical French emperor, referenced in a Squamish legend as a parallel figure.
- [Tenas Tyee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/tenas_tyee.md): A lesser chief or spirit, often contrasted with the Great Tyee in stories.
- [Ulka](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/ulka.md): A young character in a legend, possibly a maiden or youth involved in a tale.
- [Yaada](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/yaada.md): A female character in a legend, possibly a mother or wise woman.
- [Tulameen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/tulameen.md): Tulameen is the grieving widower of the legend that explains why the Tulameen River's murmur sounds like a girl's laughter and sobbing. After his young wife's death he abandons his tribe and country, declaring his heart 
- [Onwanonsyshon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/onwanonsyshon.md): A named character in a legend, possibly a chief or spirit.
- [The Four Men](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/four_men.md): Mystical figures representing the deity in a creation legend.
- [Chief Johnson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/chief_johnson.md): A Mohawk chief who interacts with Prince Arthur in a historical anecdote.
- [Klootchman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/klootchman.md): An elderly Indigenous woman who appears in a legend as a wise figure.
- [Maarda](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/legends_of_vancouver_se/characters/maarda.md): A named female character in a legend, possibly a spirit or maiden.

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