Mysterious Canada

''Mysterious Canada: Strange Sights, Extraordinary Events, and Peculiar Places'' is a reference book written by

John Robert Colombo John Robert Colombo, CM (born March 24, 1936) is a Canadian author, editor, and poet. He has published over 200 titles, including major anthologies and reference works. Early life Colombo was born in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1936. He attended t ...

(), chronicling the

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in Canada. Published in 1988 by

Doubleday Canada Limited Doubleday Canada is an imprint of the publishing company Penguin Random House Canada. The company used to be known as Forboys. It was incorporated in 1936, and since 1945 it has been known as Doubleday Canada Limited. In 1986 parent company Doub ...

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, it said of itself that it posed more questions than it answered. The book was split up by province or territory "in the form of a gazetteer", preceded by a Preface and Acknowledgments, and followed by a Bibliography and Index. Compiling major and minor mysteries from across Canada, ''Mysterious Canada'' presents more than five hundred mysteries, originating from 365 locations. The author acknowledges in his forward that " yone who looks long and hard enough will no doubt find rational explanations for the mysteries in this book." He believes that all of the events have explanations, or are just rooted in

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and

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