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Body, mind and spirit

The haunting of Vancouver Island

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    Touchwood Editions, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Sinn, Shanon
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    A compelling investigation into supernatural events and local lore on Vancouver Island.Vancouver Island is known worldwide for its arresting natural beauty, but those who live here know that it is also imbued with a palpable supernatural energy. Researcher Shanon Sinn found his curiosity piqued by stories of mysterious sightings on the island—ghosts, sasquatches, sea serpents—but he was disappointed in the sensational and sometimes disrespectful way they were being retold or revised. Acting on his desire to transform these stories from unsubstantiated gossip to thoroughly researched accounts, Sinn uncovered fascinating details, identified historical inconsistencies, and now retells these encounters as accurately as possible.Investigating 25 spellbinding tales that wind their way from the south end of the island to the north, Sinn explored hauntings in cities, in the forest, and on isolated logging roads. In addition to visiting castles, inns, and cemeteries, he followed the trail of spirits glimpsed on mountaintops, beaches, and water, and visited Heriot Bay Inn on Quadra Island and the Schooner Restaurant in Tofino to personally scrutinize reports of hauntings. Featuring First Nations stories from each of the three Indigenous groups who call Vancouver Island home—the Coast Salish, the Nuu-chah-nulth, and the Kwakwaka’wakw—the book includes an interview with Hereditary Chief James Swan of Ahousaht.

    Genre:
    Body, mind and spirit, Canadian nonfiction, Myths and folk tales
    Sujets: British Columbia--Vancouver Island | Haunted places
    Original Publisher: Victoria, Touchwood Editions
    Language(s): English

Victoria's most haunted : ghost stories from BC's historic capital city

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  • Éditeur:
    Touchwood Editions, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Gibbs, Ian
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    Ghost stories from Canada’s most haunted city, including tales from iconic sites such as the Empress hotel, Hatley Castle, and Ross Bay Cemetery. Beautiful, charming Victoria is world renowned for its seaside attractions, flourishing gardens, and breathtaking ocean views. But looming behind its picture-perfect façade is a city shrouded in mystery, with restless, disembodied beings that whisper ghastly tales of mystery, violence, and horror. Known as British Columbia’s most haunted city, Victoria is teeming with a plethora of spirits. Through this brand-new collection of disturbing tales, you’ll come face to face with: •The Grey Lady who chills hotel guests to the bone •A decorated World War I soldier who protects tenants from something sinister •An inconsolable child who haunts the pool area of a defunct hotel •The blood-soaked spectre who runs through the infamous Fan Tan Alley to escape capture •The ghost of Robert Johnson, who perpetually re-enacts his own suicide •The phantom of a cranky hermit who plagues a beautiful lake house •A spinster who gives tours of her childhood home •And many more Get to know Victoria’s best-known hauntings along with some you may have not have heard before.

    Genre:
    Body, mind and spirit, Canadian nonfiction, Myths and folk tales
    Sujets: British Columbia--Victoria | Ghosts | Haunted places
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], Touchwood Editions
    Language(s): English

Spirits of the west : eerie encounters from the Prairies to the Pacific

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  • Éditeur:
    Touchwood Editions, 2014
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Belyk, Robert C.
    Date:
    Created
    2014
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    The ghost of a scuba diver who still haunts the former British Columbia powerhouse where he met his death. An Alberta theatre where entities have been seen, heard, and even felt so often that it deserves to be called one of the most haunted sites in North America. The spirit of a dapper young man who is willing to share the second floor of a Saskatchewan museum—as long as the employees don’t linger after working hours. The ghostly nun who still occupies the third floor of a former Manitoba convent and has a strange way of making her presence known. The very frightening “Captain High Liner,” who took a special interest in one family living in his old seaside house.In his latest book in a series of western ghost story collections, Spirits of the West, Robert C. Belyk relates the stories of ghosts, both friendly and fearful, who haunt museums, hotels, pubs, houses, and many other locations throughout western Canada. These true stories will persuade the reader to turn on one more light during the long, dark night.

    Genre:
    Body, mind and spirit, Myths and folk tales, Canadian nonfiction
    Sujets: Prairie Provinces | British Columbia | Haunted places | Ghosts
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], Touchwood Editions
    Language(s): English

Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan 3

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  • Éditeur:
    Dundurn Press, 2009
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Christensen, Jo-Anne
    Date:
    Created
    2009
    Summary:

    Saskatchewan and ghost stories. They go together like a grinning scarecrow in a whisper-dry October field. In 1995, Dundurn successfully published and reprinted numerous times the original Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan. Since that time, an eerie wealth of supernatural accounts have surfaced in this seemingly quiet prairie province. In this third collection, a quiet cemetery apperas to be a portal between the worlds of the living and the dead, a Victorian mansion-turned-restaurant in Moose Jaw remains occupied by the spectral image of the original lady of the house, and a weary traveller near Flaxcombe stops for coffee in a diner that burned to the ground a decade earlier. There are historical tales and personal accounts, legends and lore. And there is much to keep the dedicated ghost fan awake late into the night. Here the reader will find triple the history, mystery, and chills from one of Canada’s established authors int he paranormal genre.

    Genre:
    Body, mind and spirit, Canadian nonfiction, Myths and folk tales
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn
    Language(s): English

Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and Labrador

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  • Éditeur:
    Dundurn Press, 2010
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Butts, Edward
    Date:
    Created
    2010
    Summary:

    Shrouded in the mists of history and legend, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador is a land of mysteries. Its waters are a graveyard for countless wrecked ships. Its lore is full of tales about treachery and murder. And it was once the haunt of pirates. Haunt, indeed! Newfoundland and Labrador has tales of the supernatural that date back centuries, to a time before Canada even existed as a nation. Here the ghosts not only lurk in old houses and forlorn cemeteries, they come up out of the sea to walk the decks of ships before the eyes of terrified crewmen. They lament out on the ice where seventy-seven men perished in the Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914. And in St. John’s the courthouse is said to be haunted by the ghost of Catherine Snow, who was hanged in 1834 for the murder of her husband. Here we find tales, both personal and historical, of ghostly haunting and unexplained happenings; from the Old Hag to headless ghosts. So read on … if you dare!

    Genre:
    Body, mind and spirit, Canadian nonfiction, Myths and folk tales
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn
    Language(s): English
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