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Haunting British Columbia: Ghostly Tales From The Past
Broadcaster and bestselling author Mike McCardell haunts British Columbia's past to summon spellbinding tales of Western Canada.
Reprising his 2013 bestseller Haunting Vancouver, McCardell summons the spirit of real-life sapper Jock Linn to provide a hair-raising and humorous during formative events that shaped BC.
In Haunting British Columbia, McCardell's ghostly narrator explains how Victoria became the provincial capital and fondly remembers British Columbians who boldly ignored convention like Smokey Smith, who would not take orders but won the Victoria Cross, and Nellie Yip Quong, who was disowned by her family for who she married but then helped generations of Chinese people in Vancouver.
As those who enjoy watching McCardell's human-interest features on the evening news know, he has a fascination with the province's past as well as an uncanny ability to unearth captivating and forgotten stories.
Scattered with archival photos and ghostly doodles, Haunting British Columbia is as fun to read as it is a revealing tour of what really happened in those bygone days.
And all of it is true... well almost
Reprising his 2013 bestseller Haunting Vancouver, McCardell summons the spirit of real-life sapper Jock Linn to provide a hair-raising and humorous during formative events that shaped BC.
In Haunting British Columbia, McCardell's ghostly narrator explains how Victoria became the provincial capital and fondly remembers British Columbians who boldly ignored convention like Smokey Smith, who would not take orders but won the Victoria Cross, and Nellie Yip Quong, who was disowned by her family for who she married but then helped generations of Chinese people in Vancouver.
As those who enjoy watching McCardell's human-interest features on the evening news know, he has a fascination with the province's past as well as an uncanny ability to unearth captivating and forgotten stories.
Scattered with archival photos and ghostly doodles, Haunting British Columbia is as fun to read as it is a revealing tour of what really happened in those bygone days.
And all of it is true... well almost
224 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2021
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