Book Description
This book brings together some 500 accounts of strange events and eerie experiences in the province.
Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1999-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780888822055
This book brings together some 500 accounts of strange events and eerie experiences in the province.
Author : Charles Henry Gervais
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780889840164
Baldoon is a two-act play written by Governor-General's award winning author James Reaney in collaboration with Windsor area poet and journalist C.H. Gervais. This is the original edition of this title, which was honoured with an Award of Merit in the 1977 Design Canada / Look of Books competition. Baldoon is one of only two Porcupine's Quill publications from the 1970s that are still available in the original edition, at the original price.
Author : Le Roy Hooker
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 1899
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
Author : Karl S. Hele
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 32,96 MB
Release : 2013-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1554584213
Drawing on themes from John MacKenzie’s Empires of Nature and the Nature of Empires (1997), this book explores, from Indigenous or Indigenous-influenced perspectives, the power of nature and the attempts by empires (United States, Canada, and Britain) to control it. It also examines contemporary threats to First Nations communities from ongoing political, environmental, and social issues, and the efforts to confront and eliminate these threats to peoples and the environment. It becomes apparent that empire, despite its manifestations of power, cannot control or discipline humans and nature. Essays suggest new ways of looking at the Great Lakes watershed and the peoples and empires contained within it.
Author : Karl S. Hele
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1554580978
The First Nations who have lived in the Great Lakes watershed have been strongly influenced by the imposition of colonial and national boundaries there. The essays in Lines Drawn upon the Water examine the impact of the Canadian—American border on communities, with reference to national efforts to enforce the boundary and the determination of local groups to pursue their interests and define themselves. Although both governments regard the border as clearly defined, local communities continue to contest the artificial divisions imposed by the international boundary and define spatial and human relationships in the borderlands in their own terms. The debate is often cast in terms of Canada’s failure to recognize the 1794 Jay Treaty’s confirmation of Native rights to transport goods into Canada, but ultimately the issue concerns the larger struggle of First Nations to force recognition of their people’s rights to move freely across the border in search of economic and social independence.
Author : Colleen E. Boyd
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803236182
The imagined ghosts of Native Americans have been an important element of colonial fantasy in North America ever since European settlements were established in the seventeenth century. Native burial grounds and Native ghosts have long played a role in both regional and local folklore and in the national literature of the United States and Canada, as settlers struggled to create a new identity for themselves that melded their European heritage with their new, North American frontier surroundings. In this interdisciplinary volume, Colleen E. Boyd and Coll Thrush bring together scholars from a variety of fields to discuss this North American fascination with "the phantom Native American." "Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence" explores the importance of ancestral spirits and historic places in Indigenous and settler communities as they relate to territory and history--in particular cultural, political, social, historical, and environmental contexts. From examinations of how individuals reacted to historical cases of "hauntings," to how Native phantoms have functioned in the literature of North Americans, to interdisciplinary studies of how such beliefs and narratives allowed European settlers and Indigenous people to make sense of the legacies of colonialism and conquest, these essays show how the past and the present are intertwined through these stories.
Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2004-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1550024965
This collection of encounters with monsters and mysteries will make you pause to wonder about ghosts, strange beasts, and even stranger human beings.
Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2004-10-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1459725026
When did you last have a psychic experience? Are you in the habit of seeing – or sensing – the presence of spirits and ghost? Have you ever spotted a lake monster or sighted a UFO? When did you last consult a fortune-teller, approach a medium work an Ouija board, or read an astrology column? Have you ever had a premonition that some odd event would occur, and then witnessed it actually occurring? Did you ever experience a sense of déjà vu or a moment of pure bliss? Extraordinary Experiences: Personal Accounts of the Paranormal in Canada is a collection of over seventy short yet curiously gripping accounts of experiences and events that may be regarded as abnormal or paranormal. Colombo has collected highly readable accounts of unusual experiences from the past and the present. The supernatural practices of the Indians of the 18th and 19th centuries are described by Samuel Hearne and Paul Kane. From the turn of the century come accounts of "crisis apparitions," poltergeists, and haunted houses, as reported by spiritualists and other observers. But the majority of the personal narratives derive from letters sent to the editor in response to his requests featured in daily newspapers across the country, for first-hand accounts of the supernatural and the paranormal. Over one hundred readers responded; here are some of there responses... Extraordinary Experiences is an extraordinary reading experience. No book quite like it has ever before appeared in Canada.
Author : Neil T. McDonald
Publisher : [Wallaceburg, Ont.] : Wallaceburg news, [194-?]
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 194?
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Author : Terry Boyle
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1459728904
Ghost hunter Terry Boyle brings you this two-ebook bundle of the bestselling Haunted Ontario books, conjuring up an eerie treasury of paranormal locales. Join Terry as he investigates apparitions at the former Swastika Hotel in Muskoka, poltergeists in Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, and a whole village of spooks roaming the buildings of Black Creek Pioneer Village. With a list of addresses, phone numbers, and websites for each location, Terry Boyle invites all ghost enthusiasts along for the adventure. Feeling brave? You might just want to stop and visit some ghosts on your next trip.