Canadas western wilderness was the scene of fur trader John Tods extraordinary life. Born in a Scottish village in 1794, Tod spent 40 adventurous years working for the Hudsons Bay Company and in his later years, served on the first Legislative Council of the fledgling colony of Vancouver Island. Posted all over the Companys vast territory York Factory, McLeod Lake, Fort Alexandria, Island Lake, Fort Kamloops he spent most of his years in New Caledonia.  A spirited and prickly man he was a free thinker, impatient with authority and distrustful of many of his superiors. He was also a lifelong and loyal friend to many of his fur-trade colleagues, especially John Work, the Ermatinger brothers and James Murray Yale. Tod saw astonishing changes in the west, from the bitter warfare between the Hudsons Bay Company and the NorWesters, to settlement by pioneers and the conventions of the polite colonial society.  Few lives have spanned such contrasts. This definitive biography presents the picture of the unusual man in an exciting era.

John Tod: Rebel in the Ranks

Biographies & Memoirs

Robert C. Belyk

Memoirs

Touchwood Editions

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 dont 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.

Spirits of the West: Eerie Encounters from the Prairies to the Pacific

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

The famous Victoria ghost who appeared to a tour group listening to her story, the little boy playing with a red ball in Nanaimo, the phantom helper in a restaurant kitchen these are among the true stories in Robert Belyks new Ghosts. Encounters with entities from a different reality do occur in the rational, modern world; the experiences collected here range from the colonial days to the year 2000. Many ghosts haunt private houses, but some are associated with public places and buildings, such as Beacon Hill Park in Victoria, the Vancouver General Hospital and the Qualicum Heritage Inn on Vancouver Island.  Ghosts: True Tales of Eerie Encounters is an expanded and updated collection of stories , some of which first appeared in Ghosts: True Stories from British Columbia.

Ghosts: ue Tales of Eerie Encounters

Occult & Paranormal

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