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The novel "The Chrysalids" is set in a future version of Newfoundland/Labrador Canada. Waknuk is in Labrador.
Waknuk is an inland village in southwest Labrador. It contains all the Norm people.
A large island to the notheast known as Greenland is rumored to have an amazonian culture with bizzare habits
Sealand is home to a socially and technologically advanced society where telephaty is the norm and is encouraged and developed.
Fringes is on the outskirts of Wuknuk Here is where the people considered to be deviants are sent. Even though the people of Wuknuk try to get rid od the deviant people by sending them to the Fringes the truth is they can not escape them because they are part of Waknuk , whether thr like it or not
Chrysalids in is newflundland in canada after a nuclear war. it is a small community that contains only "normal" people, or so they think. judging by the fact that there is a turn pike it could possibly be somehwere around st.johns. davids uncle is a sailor so it also points to newfound land
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