Episode 158: A Grain of Truth (ad-free)

Oftentimes, the truth is right in front of us, made as plain as day and easy to access. But sometimes it’s lost, and the only way to track it down is through story. But as one island in the Pacific Northwest demonstrates, digging for the truth often comes at a price.

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Further Reading

1. “14,000-Year-Old Village Unearthed on B.C. Island by UVic Student,” TCV News, April 2017, https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/14-000-year-old-village-unearthed-on-b-c-island-by-uvic-student-1.3358511.
2. “The Skagit River Atlatl,” Northwest Coast Archaeology, October 2010, https://qmackie.com/2010/10/07/the-skagit-river-atlatl/.
3. “Vancouver Island,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, date unknown, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vancouver-island.
4. Anne Cameron, Daughters of Copper Woman (Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1981).
5. Jo-Ann ‌Christensen, Ghost Stories of British Columbia (Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1996).
6. Mary BethCrain, Haunted Christmas: Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings (Guilford: Globe Pequot, 2009).
7. “Dunsmuir, Robert” Biographi.ca, date unknown, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dunsmuir_robert_11E.html.
8. “The Christmas Eve Murder That Shocked 19th Century Victoria.” The Capital, date unknown, https://www.capnews.ca/news/1890-christmas-eve-murder-david-fee.
9. Paul LeBlond, John Kirk III, and John Walton, Discovering Cadborosaurus (Blaine: Hancock House Publishers Ltd., 2019).
10. Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).
11. “B.C.’s tiniest towns set sights on growth by reinventing themselves,” Times Colonist, April 20, 2015, https://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/b-c-s-tiniest-towns-set-sights-on-growth-by-reinventing-themselves-1.1828885.
12. “The Life and Death of Missionary Bishop Seghers,” ExploreNorth, Accessed March 25, 2020, http://www.explorenorth.com/library/bios/archbishop_seghers-funeral-1888.html.
13. “A baby sea-serpent no more: reinterpreting Hagelund’s juvenile Cadborosaurus,” Scientific American, September 26, 2011, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/baby-sea-serpent-no-more.
14. “The Cadborosaurus Wars,” Scientific American, April 16, 2012, https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/the-cadborosaurus-wars.
15. “CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charles John Seghers,” New Advent, date unknown, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13682a.htm.
16. T. W. Paterson, Encyclopedia of Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of British Columbia, Volume 1 (Langley: Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd., 1979).
17. T. W. Paterson and Garnet Basque, Lost Bonanzas of Western Canada (Langley: Sunfire Publications, Ltd., 1983).
18. “Craigdarroch Castle The Haunted Place in Victoria, Canada,” MysteriousTrip, date unknown https://mysterioustrip.com/craigdarroch-castle-victoria.
19. Shanon Sinn, The Haunting of Vancouver Island (Victoria: TouchWood Editions, 2017).