Ghost Town Stories Of Alberta

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936185

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Ghost Town Stories of Alberta by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

Today, many of the historic coal-mining communities of the Rocky Mountains are uninhabited ghost towns. Yet behind the crumbled ruins are tales of perseverance, danger and romance. A devastating mine explosion on Halloween shatters the lives of mining families in Nordegg. The miners of Mountain Park build a hockey rink still celebrated in local lore. A young immigrant couple in Mercoal establishes a successful business only to have their love story sadly cut short. These 11 dramatic and poignant ghost-town tales are sure to fascinate all who love pioneer history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1091214091

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Ghost Town Stories of Alberta Abandoned Dreams in the Shadows of the Canadian Rockies by Anonim Pdf

Today, many of the historic coal-mining communities of the Rocky Mountains are uninhabited ghost towns. Yet behind the crumbled ruins are tales of perseverance, danger and romance. A devastating mine explosion on Halloween shatters the lives of mining families in Nordegg. The miners of Mountain Park build a hockey rink still celebrated in local lore. A young immigrant couple in Mercoal establishes a successful business only to have their love story sadly cut short. These 11 dramatic and poignant ghost-town tales are sure to fascinate all who love pioneer history.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936192

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Ghost Town Stories of BC by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

Many of BC's old mining towns are now abandoned ruins, disappearing into the wilderness. These once-thriving towns and the pioneers who built them are remembered in 10 fascinating stories of hard work and heroism. A mine rescue worker sadly recounts a tale of death underground at Coal Creek. Three eccentric old bachelors become the final residents of Phoenix. Legends of Spanish treasure near a Vancouver Island gold-rush town persist to this day. Experience BC's colourful past in these entertaining stories from the province's vanished communities.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926936208

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Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police’s famous 1874 March West. Today, this lonely highway passes through a windswept land of ghostly abandoned towns. Johnnie Bachusky takes readers back to the heyday of these towns, which sprang up as settlers travelled west during the last great land rush. The Roaring Twenties brought bumper harvests, but also bootleggers and bank robbers; fortunes were won and lost in high-stakes poker games. The Great Depression devastated the region as disease, drought, dust storms and grasshoppers took their toll. History comes to life in these exciting true stories, from an account of a 1920s bank robbery in Manyberries to the tales of a boisterous Govenlock rancher who hunted with Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok.

Author : Harold Fryer
Publisher : Langley, B.C. : Mr. Paperback
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Alberta
ISBN : 0889830398

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Ghost Towns of Alberta by Harold Fryer Pdf

Author : Harold Fryer
Publisher : Surrey, B.C. : Heritage House Pub.
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Alberta
ISBN : OCLC:9569986

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Ghost Towns of Southern Alberta by Harold Fryer Pdf

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub. Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1551539934

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Ghost Town Stories by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

An amazing journey into the past through the ghost towns of the Canadian Rockies and foothills.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Heritage Amazing Stories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551539926

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Ghost Town Stories II by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The story of towns in Alberta and Saskatchewan, built by settlers with high hopes for the future, that did not survive the struggle of the Depression and natural disasters.

Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888821522

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Ghost Stories of Alberta by Barbara Smith Pdf

An eerie collection of ghost stories in Alberta, from urban centres to rural areas and the Rocky Mountains.

Author : Johnnie Bachusky
Publisher : Canmore, Alta. : Altitude Pub. Canada
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Alberta
ISBN : 1551539578

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Ghost Town Stories from the Red Coat Trail by Johnnie Bachusky Pdf

The Red Coat Trail of southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta runs near the route of the North West Mounted Police's famous 1874 March West. Today, this lonely highway passes through a windswept land of ghostly abandoned towns. Johnnie Bachusky takes readers back to the heyday of these towns, which sprang up as settlers travelled west during the last great land rush. The Roaring Twenties brought bumper harvests, but also bootleggers and bank robbers; fortunes were won and lost in high-stakes poker games. The Great Depression devastated the region as disease, drought, dust storms and grasshoppers took their toll. History comes to life in these exciting true stories, from an account of a 1920s bank robbery in Manyberries to the tales of a boisterous Govenlock rancher who hunted with Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1772761478

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Abandoned Alberta by Anonim Pdf

A love letter to the province offering a window into the past through stunning photography. The stunning images found in Abandoned Alberta offer a window into our past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. Joe Chowaniec started the Facebook page Abandoned Alberta in January 2017, which today has more than 26,000 members. Alberta is in Joe Chowaniec's blood, and you might say Abandoned Alberta is his love letter to the province. Where others may see only decay and rot in these long-forgotten locations, Chowaniec sees exquisite beauty.

Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781771512800

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Great Canadian Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith Pdf

A compelling collection of iconic ghost stories from all across Canada. Time and place are infused with ghosts and hauntings. From coast to coast to coast, Canada’s provinces and territories teem with the supernatural—phantoms obscured in the mists of time, spectres that delight in wreaking terror, and spirits destined to linger forever at the edge of the veil. Visit the far-flung corners of Canada to discover the folklore and legends behind: the ghost of a Newfoundland outlaw that leads blizzard-blind men to safety A poltergeist infestation that gleefully tortured an entire Nova Scotia family A fleet of phantom ships that haunt the coastline of New Brunswick the haggard spectre of a murderous witch in historic Quebec City Saskatchewan’s ghost-ridden military cadet academy an Alberta cabbie’s encounter with a silent shadow of a man in black the headless railway brakeman of Vancouver a moaning, man-shaped mist that haunts a Yukon cabin From east to west to way up north, bestselling author and renowned storyteller Barbara Smith traverses Canada’s provinces and territories to unearth more than 100 supernatural tales that careen between heartwarming, horrifying, sorrowful, and spine-chilling.

Author : Maria Da Silva,Andrew Hind
Publisher : Amazing Stories
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1552774120

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Ghost Town Stories of Ontario by Maria Da Silva,Andrew Hind Pdf

Ontario is rich in ghost towns, communities that were once thriving but which have been reduced to mere shadows of their former selves. Nine villages -- including silver camps, fishing ports, crossroads hamlets, and farming settlements -- come alive on the pages of this book. The term 'ghost town' invariably conjures up images of fog-shrouded cemeteries, buildings with sinister visages, and of course, restless spirits of the dead. While often this is merely our imagination at play, in some cases, these ghost towns are indeed said to be haunted.

Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 1551058693

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Alberta Fireside Ghost Stories by Barbara Smith Pdf

Known for her series of true ghost stories, Barbara Smith is back, this time with a collection of fictional ghostly tales set in real Alberta locations. So light the fire and prepare to be spooked by these delightfully eerie stories, including: * A young man trying to get home to Edmonton from Fort McMurray has a brush with death when he takes a ride in a phantom van * Three friends having brunch in Red Deer are joined by the ghost of a woman from a time gone by * The angry spirit of a woman killed on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River gets vengeance on the Edmonton man who caused her death * Kindly spirits give two lonely young people in Lethbridge a nudge in the right direction, forever changing their lives for the better * A well-meaning constable in Lloydminster inadvertently tries to help the ghost of a local hermit in his search for the money he was forced to leave behind when he died * Two soulmates, separated at birth, are reunited in death at the Okotoks Erratic * And more.

Author : John F. Polhemus,Richard V. Polhemus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89082356247

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Up on Preston Mountain by John F. Polhemus,Richard V. Polhemus Pdf

"In the 1700s, poor Yankees and freed slaves carved out homesteads on a rugged mountain on the New York-Connecticut border. They shared the mountain with the embattled Schaghticoke Indian tribe. This is the story of both groups' failed attempts to hold onto their land in the shadow of America's first industrial boom--the age of iron. The people abandoned the mountain and the forest grew back. All that remains is a ghost town."--Cover.