For those of us raised before the Internet’s ubiquity, books of lists, of records, of miscellany, encyclopedias and field guides were the repositories of choice for random facts, strange tidbits and useless information. School libraries and book fairs were full of these titles, which served as gateways to a deeper […]
Author: Jeff Dupuis
Cabbagetown Tunnel Monster tale continues to intrigue forty years later
A city’s subterranean secrets are fertile soil to grow urban legends. Think of the alligators in the New York sewage system, arguably the most famous urban legend of them all. Toronto too has its share of urban legends, and many of them are set beneath the city’s streets. Some follow […]
Photojournalist and filmmaker Jason Kenzie is no stranger to exotic wildlife
Photojournalist and filmmaker Jason Kenzie is no stranger to exotic wildlife, having worked with tigers, grizzly bears, alligators, monkeys, wolves and even the African serval. And he is no stranger to the sprawling forests and mountains of his native British Columbia, where he grew up hearing stories about the “hairy man […]
What lurks in Cowichan Lake? Stin-Qua adds to B.C.’s super, natural mystique
Canada’s westernmost province has a rich history of water monsters. There are those we know — the Pacific giant octopus, the white sturgeon, the orca whale — and then there are those that inhabit the folktales and urban legends of British Columbia: Ogopogo, Cadborosaurs, and Shuswaggi, among many others. One […]