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Book Haunted Winnipeg

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Komus
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781927855058
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Haunted Winnipeg written by Matthew Komus and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haunted Manitoba

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  • Author : Matthew Komus
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-09-25
  • ISBN : 9781773370286
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Haunted Manitoba written by Matthew Komus and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manitoba may seem like a quiet province, but its prairies teem with paranormal activity. A ghostly groundskeeper still does his rounds at the Delta Marsh Field Station; strange noises and apparitions of children in 19th-century clothing have been reported at Lower Fort Garry; and Mrs. Kennedy still welcomes guests to Captain Kennedy's House - just as she did when her home was built in 1866. Haunted Manitoba shares eerie stories from all corners of the province and places them in the context of Manitoba?s rich history.

Book The Art of Ectoplasm

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  • Author : Serena Keshavjee
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2023-11-01
  • ISBN : 1772840408
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book The Art of Ectoplasm written by Serena Keshavjee and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacy of the Hamiltons’ psychic archive In the wake of the First World War and the 1918–19 pandemic, the world was left grappling with a profound sense of loss. It was against this backdrop that a Winnipeg couple, physician T.G. Hamilton and nurse Lillian Hamilton, began their research, documenting and photographing séances they held in their home laboratory. Their extensive study of the survival of human consciousness after death resulted in a stunning collection of hundreds of photographs, including images of tables flying through the air, mediums in trances, and, most curious of all, ectoplasm—a strange, white substance through which ghosts could apparently manifest. The Art of Ectoplasm invites readers to explore the Hamiltons’ research and photographic evidence which has attracted international attention from scholars and artists alike. Notable figures like Arthur Conan Doyle participated in the Hamilton family’s séances, and their investigations garnered support among the psychical scientific community, including renowned physicist Oliver Lodge, the inventor of wireless telegraphy. In the century since their creation, the Hamilton photographs (now housed at the University of Manitoba) have continued to perplex and inspire as the subject of academic study, comedic parody, and artistic and cinematic renderings. This fascinating collection reflects on the history and legacy of the startling and uncanny images found in the Hamilton Family archive. As contemporary society continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Art of Ectoplasm offers a compelling look at a chapter in social history not entirely unlike our own.

Book Rooster Town

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evelyn Peters
  • Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN : 0887555667
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Rooster Town written by Evelyn Peters and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961. Those years in Winnipeg were characterized by the twin pressures of depression, and inflation, chronic housing shortages, and a spotty social support network. At the city’s edge, Rooster Town grew without city services as rural Métis arrived to participate in the urban economy and build their own houses while keeping Métis culture and community as a central part of their lives. In other growing settler cities, the Indigenous experience was largely characterized by removal and confinement. But the continuing presence of Métis living and working in the city, and the establishment of Rooster Town itself, made the Winnipeg experience unique. Rooster Town documents the story of a community rooted in kinship, culture, and historical circumstance, whose residents existed unofficially in the cracks of municipal bureaucracy, while navigating the legacy of settler colonialism and the demands of modernity and urbanization.

Book Abandoned Manitoba

Download or read book Abandoned Manitoba written by Gordon Goldsborough and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: colour photosTravel with Gordon Goldsborough from Rapid City School to Mallard Lodge to Union Stockyards and many places in between as the author helps us reclaim some of our long-lost heritage. This full colour, richly illustrated book looks at abandoned sites around Manitoba, describing their features, what caused them to be abandoned, and what they tell us about the history of the province.

Book Haunted Canada 6

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  • Author : Joel A. Sutherland
  • Publisher : Scholastic Canada
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1443148784
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Haunted Canada 6 written by Joel A. Sutherland and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2016 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth book in the bestselling series of hauntingly true Canadian stories -- back, and scarier than ever! For his brand-new story collection, author Joel A. Sutherland has scoured the country for more creepy and chilling tales. Get underneath the covers, because between these book covers are stories about . . . * a supernatural sea hag that haunts Dobbin's Gardens marsh on Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador * a used book from a Barrie, Ontario book shop that conjures up a ghostly figure that accompanies the buyer home * a haunted playground at St. Ignatius School in Winnipeg, Manitoba With moody black-and-white illustrations, and archival photos throughout, this collection is perfect for those who like a frightfully good read!

Book Ghost Stories of Manitoba

Download or read book Ghost Stories of Manitoba written by Barbara Smith and published by Lone Pine Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chilling stories from all over Manitoba will keep you checking under the bed, behind closet doors and in the basement. The stories are about haunted houses, long-dead relatives, and poltergeists in theatres, hotels and hospitals. Murder and tragedy are woven together with mystery and misfortune in these tales of the paranormal. Includes Winnipeg's Walker Theatre, the Virgin Mary at Cross Lake, Hotel Fort Garry, St. John's Anglican Cathedral and more.

Book Guy Maddin s My Winnipeg

Download or read book Guy Maddin s My Winnipeg written by Darren Wershler and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-09-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guy Maddin is Canada's most iconoclastic filmmaker. Through his reinvention of half-forgotten film genres, his remobilization of abandoned techniques from the early history of cinema, and his unique editing style, Maddin has created a critically successful body of work that looks like nothing else in Canadian film. My Winnipeg (2008), which Roger Ebert called one of the ten best films of the first decade of the twenty-first century, has consolidated Maddin's international reputation. In this sixth volume of the Canadian Cinema series, Darren Wershler argues that Maddin's use of techniques and media that fall outside of the normal repertoire of contemporary cinema require us to re-examine what we think we know about the documentary genre and even 'film' itself. Through an exploration of My Winnipeg's major thematic concerns - memory, the cultural archive, and how people and objects circulate through the space of the city - Wershler contends that the result is a film that is psychologically and affectively true without being historically accurate.

Book In a Spooky Haunted House

Download or read book In a Spooky Haunted House written by Joel Stern and published by Little Simon. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go on a haunted Halloween adventure through a spooky house in this spine-tingling, sturdy pop-up book! Welcome to our Haunted House! It’s creepy and it’s ghostly. If you don’t want to lose your way You’ll need to follow closely. Welcome to a kid-friendly pop-up book that’s perfect for tiny trick-or-treaters. Join a ghost-host as readers travel inside a haunted house to discover the many spooky sights on Halloween night. A sturdy page-turner, In a Spooky, Haunted House has fun and interactive, three-dimensional scenes with tricks and treats for kids of all ages.

Book Nothing the Same  Everything Haunted

Download or read book Nothing the Same Everything Haunted written by Gary Barwin and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle-aged Jewish man who fantasizes about being a cowboy goes on an eccentric quest across Europe after the 1941 Nazi invasion of Lithuania in this wild and witty yet heartrending novel from the bestselling author of Yiddish for Pirates, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Motl is middle-aged, poor, nerdy, Jewish and in desperate need of a shave. Since having his balls shot cleanly off as a youth in WWI, he's lived a quiet life at home in Vilnius with his shrewd and shrewish mom, Gitl, losing himself in the masculine fantasy world of cowboy novels by writers like Karl May--novels equally loved by Hitler, whose troops have just invaded Lithuania and are out to exterminate people like Motl. In his dreams, Motl is a fast-talking, rugged, expert gunslinger capable of dealing with the Nazi threat. But only in his dreams. As friends and neighbours are killed around them, Motl and Gitl escape from Vilnius, saving their own skins. But they immediately risk everything to try rescue relatives they hope are still alive. With death all around him, Motl decides that a Jew's best revenge is not only to live, but to procreate. In order to achieve this, though, he must relocate those most crucial pieces of his anatomy lost to him in a glacier in the Swiss Alps in the previous war. It's an absurd yet life-affirming mission, made even more urgent when he's separated from his mother, and isn't sure whether she's alive or dead. Joining forces, and eventually hearts, with Esther, a Jewish woman whose family has been killed, Motl ventures across Europe, a kaleidoscope of narrow escapes and close encounters with everyone from Himmler, to circus performers, double agents, quislings, fake "Indians" and real ones. Motl at last figures out that he has more connection to the Indigenous characters in western novels than the cowboys. An imaginative and deeply felt exploration of genocide, persecution, colonialism and masculinity--saturated in Gary Barwin's sharp wit and perfect pun-play--Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy is a one-of-a-kind novel of sheer genius.

Book 100 Things Jets Fans Should Know   Do Before They Die

Download or read book 100 Things Jets Fans Should Know Do Before They Die written by Jon Waldman and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for Jets fans who think they already know everything Most Jets fans have attended a game at the MTS Centre, seen highlights of the legendary Bobby Hull, and remember where they were when the news broke that the Jets were coming back to Winnipeg. But only die-hards remember the WHA years, were there when they captured their first Avco World Trophy, or witnessed the greatness of Dale Hawerchuk in his prime. 100 Things Jets Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die reveals the most critical moments and important facts about past and present players, coaches, and teams that are part of the storied history that is Jets hockey. Whether you're a die-hard fan from the Bobby Kromm days or a new supporter of Paul Maurice, this book contains everything a Jets fan should know, see, and do in a lifetime.

Book Haunted Homeland

Download or read book Haunted Homeland written by Michael Norman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the places, the people, and the things that belong to the earthbound realm of the fantastic, this latest volume of the Haunted America series contains supernatural folklore that has been passed down for generations.

Book Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk

Download or read book Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk written by Frank Cowper and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus. When he finds an abandoned duck punt on Christmas Eve, a hunter rows out into the marsh and comes across a shipwreck. He climbs aboard to explore—and finds himself trapped when a surge snaps the mooring line and his punt floats away. Sleep eludes him, and soon he discovers that he's not the only one trapped on the derelict ship.

Book Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures

Download or read book Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures written by Various Various and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What haunts our hearts today may haunt us in the hereafter . . . In future-Edo Japan, two lovers cross paths after fifty years apart. A drone-stream influencer is stalked by a spectre her online audience can't see. Trans vampires' lives intertwine in cyber-goth Paris. A non-binary chaplain serving a haunted space station becomes enamoured with the ship's AI. And the treachery and passion of a gestalt alien mind reaches critical mass for the explorer who discovered it.With stories spanning time, galaxies, and spirits, Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures features 17 original stories, casting the indelible themes of gothic romance forward in time, to imagined futures and tomorrow's afterlives.Featuring all-original comics, curated by award-winning author and editor S.M. Beiko.

Book Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : David A. Robertson
  • Publisher : Portage & Main Press
  • Release : 2017-12-05
  • ISBN : 155379737X
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Strangers written by David A. Robertson and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Governor General’s Award-winning author David A. Robertson comes the first book in a compelling new trilogy. A talking coyote, mysterious illnesses, and girl trouble. Coming home can be murder... When Cole Harper gets a mysterious message from an old friend begging him to come home, he has no idea what he's getting into. Compelled to return to Wounded Sky First Nation, Cole finds his community in chaos: a series of shocking murders, a mysterious illness ravaging the residents, and reemerging questions about Cole’s role in the tragedy that drove him away 10 years ago. With the aid of an unhelpful spirit, a disfigured ghost, and his two oldest friends, Cole tries to figure out his purpose, and unravel the mysteries he left behind a decade ago. Will he find the answers in time to save his community?

Book This House Is Haunted

Download or read book This House Is Haunted written by Maureen Bayless and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving into a new house can be a scary experience! Howard's family has bought a new house -- a new old house, that is. It has 29 rooms full of spiders and creaky noises. It has a dark, spooky basement. And it has a ghost. Howard can live with the rest, but he won't share a house with a ghost. Nuh-uh. No way. He'll do anything -- even enlist the help of Punch McLaredy, the class bully, and his pet snake Chokey -- to get that ghost out! With a light-hearted tone, this story deals with issues of anxiety, bullying, fear and change, which are important curriculum and home life topics for this age group.

Book Dear Canada  Pieces of the Past

Download or read book Dear Canada Pieces of the Past written by Carol Matas and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Jewish girl recounts her experiences during a horrifying time in recent history. As Rose begins her diary, she is in her third home since coming to Winnipeg. Traumatized by her experiences in the Holocaust, she struggles to connect with others, and above all, to trust again. When her new guardian, Saul, tries to get Rose to deal with what happened to her during the war, she begins writing in her diary about how she survived the murder of the Jews in Poland by going into hiding. Memories of herself and her mother being taken in by those willing to risk sheltering Jews, moving from place to place, being constantly on the run to escape capture, begin to flood her diary pages. Recalling those harrowing days, includingwhen they stumbled on a resistance cell deep in the forest and lived underground in filthy conditions, begins to take its toll on Rose. As she delves deeper into her past, she is haunted by the most terrifying memory of all. Will she find the courage to bear witness to her mother's ultimate sacrifice?