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Great Canadian Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith Touchwood Editions, Canada, 2018 4/5 Each page turn of Barbara Smith’s Great Canadian Ghost Stories was a finger pull on a View-Master’s lever. Rife with viewports into Canada’s supernatural tales, Smith refrains from her traditional provincial campfire tales and cups her hand over her eyes to view for miles nationwide. […]
Scriber of ghost stories, Barbara Smith, can spend hours talking about the spectral tales Canada has to offer the world. It’s an early January morning for the Sidney, B.C. native – who has also called Toronto and Edmonton home – and she shares warmly the passion she’s been pursuing since […]
Michelle Desrochers makes a living out of researching malevolent hauntings
There are some 232 dead nuns interred in a crypt beneath the Grey Nuns Motherhouse at the corner of Guy Street and René-Lévesque Boulevard West, in the Montreal borough of Ville-Marie. It’s a macabre thought, but even more bizarre is that it’s a residence for students at Concordia University’s Sir […]
There aren’t many people who can share the same tale about the Chaleur Bay ghost ship that archivist and genealogist Florence Godin can. It’s mid-August, and the septuagenarian is taking a moment away from her work at the Bathurst Heritage Museum. Godin has been a working member of the Irish […]
It’s a chilly February evening and demonologist Tony Spera has a long trip ahead of him. He’s on his way home after helping a friend out. One can only imagine what the road before him looks like as he’s taken the time to pull off to the shoulder and talk […]
On the wall of Mary Willan Mason’s one-bedroom apartment is an ancient Egyptian artefact from Abydos. It was an inspired gift to herself, from one of Canada’s more well-known female archaeologists, Amice Calverley. Calverley was a schoolmate of Mason’s mother, Gladys Willan (nee Hall). She beams when she points to […]