Ghost Town Stories of Alberta
Ghost Town Stories of Alberta

Author: Johnnie Bachusky

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1926936183

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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.

Ghost Town Stories of Alberta
Ghost Town Stories of Alberta

Author: Johnnie Bachusky

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2009-04-21

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781894974721

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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.

Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail
Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail

Author: Johnnie Bachusky

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1926613708

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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.

Ghost Town Stories of BC
Ghost Town Stories of BC

Author: Johnnie Bachusky

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1926936191

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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.

Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail
Ghost Town Stories of the Red Coat Trail

Author: Johnnie Bachusky

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1926936205

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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.

Abandoned Alberta
Abandoned Alberta

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781772761474

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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.

Ghost Stories of Alberta
Ghost Stories of Alberta

Author: Barbara Smith

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 1993-09

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780888821522

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

CSI Alberta
CSI Alberta

Author: Peter B. Smith

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781894974844

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Ten gripping tales of murder and missing persons show how skulls and skeletons reveal their secrets to forensic investigators. A skull is found on a scree slope high above the mirror-calm waters of Spray Lakes. Bones rumoured for years to be buried in a Medicine Hat backyard are finally dug up. The trussed and tortured skeletal remains of an unknown man are found in a septic tank near Tofield. These baffling Alberta cases show how dogged, old-fashioned detective work combines with modern forensic techniques in the search for the truth.

Spooky Oregon
Spooky Oregon

Author: S. E. Schlosser

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0762756233

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Oregon folklore traditions are kept alive in 25 expert retellings of hauntings and strange happenings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and through artist Paul Hoffman’s evocative illustrations.

Abandoned Manitoba
Abandoned Manitoba

Author: Gordon Goldsborough

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781927855485

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colour photosTravel with Gordon Goldsborough from Rapid City School to Mallard Lodge to Union Stockyards and many places in between as the author helps us reclaim some of our long-lost heritage. This full colour, richly illustrated book looks at abandoned sites around Manitoba, describing their features, what caused them to be abandoned, and what they tell us about the history of the province.