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Brothers-Far-Home

Eliza on the cover of Brothers Far from Home

All of the characters that appear in Brothers Far from Home. Several of the characters also appear in "Like a Stack of Spoons" in A Christmas to Remember.

Main characters[]

Eliza Bates[]

Main article: Eliza Bates

Eliza Mary Bates[1] (born December 15, 1904)[2]

Supporting characters[]

Annabelle and Sam Bates[]

Annabelle[3] (died 1938)[4] and Sam Bates[5]

Belle Bates[]

Emily Belle Bates[5] (born January 5, 1912)[6] was the youngest child of Annabelle and Sam Bates. She was usually called by her middle name, Belle.

Charlie and Susannah Bates[]

Charlie and Susannah Bates (born c. 1909)[5] were the twin son and daughter of Annabelle and Sam. They were named after members of the Wesley family since their mother had been a Methodist. When they were younger, the twins had a "secret language" no one else understood.

Cornelia Webb[]

Hugo Bates[]

Hugo Bates (February 14, 1895[5] – April 1917)[7] was the eldest child of Annabelle and Sam. He had six younger siblings, including Eliza who called him her "favourite." Hugo was a student at the University of Toronto with plans to earn a B.A.. In 1915, he enlisted at the age of twenty after the Germans sank the Lusitania.

Jack Bates[]

Jack Bates (born c. 1897)[5] was the second son of Annabelle and Sam Bates. Before enlisting, he attended Agricultural College with plans to farm the land where his grandmother and Aunt Martha lived.

Verity Bates[]

Verity Susan Bates[5] (born June 1, 1899)[8]

Minor characters[]

  • "Grandmother"
  • Martha ("Aunt")

Epilogue characters[]

  • Eliza Winifred Bates
  • John Bates

References[]

See also[]


Dear Canada characters
Main characters

Hélène St. Onge | Sophie Loveridge | Angélique Richard | Geneviève Aubuchon | Mary MacDonald
Susanna Merritt | Isobel Scott | Arabella Stevenson | Johanna Leary | Jenna Sinclair | Harriet Palmer
Julia May Jackson | Rosie Dunn | Kathleen "Kate" Cameron | Josephine Bouvier | Flora Rutherford
Tryphena "Triffie" Winsor | Victoria Cope | Abby Roberts | Dorothy Wilton | Anya Soloniuk | Eliza Bates
Charlotte Blackburn | Fiona Macgregor | Chin Mei-ling | Ivy Weatherall | Sally Cohen | Noreen Robertson
Charlotte Twiss | Mary Kobayashi | Devorah Bernstein | Rose Rabinowitz | Violet Pesheens

Supporting characters

Marianna Wilson | Jane Browning

Lists of characters by book

Alone in an Untamed Land | Winter of Peril | Banished from Our Home | The Death of My Country
With Nothing But Our Courage | Whispers of War | Footsteps in the Snow | A Rebel's Daughter
A Sea of Sorrows | Where the River Takes Me | A Trail of Broken Dreams | A Desperate Road to Freedom
A Country of Our Own | A Ribbon of Shining Steel | Blood Upon Our Land | Days of Toil and Tears
Flame and Ashes | Orphan at My Door | All Fall Down | That Fatal Night | Prisoners in the Promised Land
Brothers Far from Home | No Safe Harbour | If I Die Before I Wake | An Ocean Apart
A Prairie as Wide as the Sea | Not a Nickel to Spare | To Stand On My Own | Exiles from the War
Turned Away | Torn Apart | Pieces of the Past | These Are My Words