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Title: Mysterious Ontario
Author: Geordie Telfer
Paperback: 5.25″ x 8.25″ • 278 pages
ISBN: 978-1-926695-17-4
Retail List Price: $18.95
BISAC CODE: HIS006000
BISAC CATEGORY: HISTORY /
Canada / General
Mysterious Ontario
Geordie Telfer

Ontario’s history is brimming with unexplained events that have con-founded residents from the dawn of prehistory to the present. Unlock
the past and discover Ontario’s secrets, unsolved disappearances, ghostly encounters and more:

• Mystical Rock Art—Petroglyphs carved into a marble rock face near Peterborough are regarded by the Algonquin as a sacred gateway into the spirit world
Canada’s First UFO Sighting?—People observed mysterious lights and other strange sights at “Granny Marsh’s” Cornwall farmhouse for nearly a year
• Ghost of Higher Learning—The ghost of the Russian stonemason who carved the University of Toronto’s gargoyles once stalked its hallowed halls
• IntoThin Air—In 1919, Ambrose Small, theatre chain owner, sold his holdings for $2 million and vanished from Toronto the same day
• Mummified Baby—In 2007, a Toronto renovator discovered a mummified baby boy wrapped in newspapers from the year 1925 in the floor of a home
• Psychic Prime Minister—William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, believed strongly in the spirit world and conducted séances while in office, claiming he communicated with saints, sinners and his dead dogs.
And so much more…

Geordie Telfer
GEORDIE TELFER is a writer, playwright and performer who lives in Toronto. During a chequered but happily misspent youth, he was the assistant director for the Toronto Studio Players Theatre School, a freelance set carpenter and, on one occasion, the reluctant wrangler of a monkey and a ferret. Currently, he writes mainly for the Web and for television, having penned several documentaries for Discovery Canada and Animal Planet. He has five other non-fiction titles to his credit.

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