The famous Victoria ghost who appeared to a tour group listening to her story, the little boy with a red ball in Nanaimo, the phantom “helper” in a restaurant kitchen — these are among the true stories in Robert Belyk’s new Ghosts.
 

This is the tale of how Canada’s high northern wilderness was brought into civilization’s fold through a frail network of wires laboriously strung between poles and trees for hundreds of desolate miles. It started in 1897, when gold was discovered in the Yukon and the government needed a faster way to communicate with its remote northern territory. The isolated residents, too, wanted a more reliable connection with the outside world. Thus was born the Yukon Telegraph.