10 Spooky and Spine-tingling Stories

Gabrielle Ayotte Garneau carries on the Basque storytelling tradition with a legend that has thrilled her neighbours for decades.

It was a dilemma, medical students needed cadavers for dissection. But procuring cadavers was illegal. In nineteenth-century Montreal there was only one solution. And it was ghoulish. 

Get an inside look at putting together the artwork for Canada’s History magazine.

Newfoundland community celebrates the supernatural.

Historic locations are often crawling with ghost stories. Who are the spirits supposedly haunting these places? Illustrated by GMB Chomichuk.

JoAnn Roe tours Heritage Ghost Town, near Revelstoke, British Columbia, where the spirit of the frontier lives on. 

What uncanny creatures lurk in the depths of the Canadian wilderness? Gather ’round the campfire for some spine-tingling stories of the supernatural.

University of Manitoba home to ghostly legacy.

When things went wrong in seventeenth-century Quebec, authorities were not above blaming black magic.

In the 1920s, the HBC was looking to expand its markets and sent a small group on the S.S. Baychimo to post-revolutionary Russia.

Be sure to leave the lights on when you read this issue! You’ll meet historical spooks and explore unexplained stories from Canada’s past.