Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore:
mysteriesofcanada.com/bookshop
The fascinating intersection of history and mystery is embodied in the memoir of Paul Kane, an Irish-Canadian artist who, in the mid-late 1840s, at the very height of the Hudson Bay Company’s fur trade empire, travelled across North America and back, accompanying various HBC fur brigades. In this piece, we explore Paul Kane’s intriguing contributions to the mysteries of the Canadian fur trade.
Co-Producer: Dan Chomistek
ChomistekFilms.com
Thumbnail Art by August Swinson, Member of Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation in Ontario:
AugustIllustrated.Squarespace.com
With artwork by:
Just Tom’s Art
JustTomsArt.com
And Hannah Parker
HannahParkerArts.com
And, of course, Paul Kane.
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:02:05 – Paul Kane’s Journey
0:06:48 - The Wendigo of the Grand Portage
0:10:03 - Journey Across the Prairies
0:15:34 - The Legend of Oldman Creek
0:17:53 - The Skookums of Mount St. Helens
0:19:18 - A First Nations Healing Ceremony
0:23:33 - The Dalles des Morts
0:29:17 - Battle Between the Blackfoot and Cree
0:33:36 - The Lactating Man
0:34:54 - The Shaking Tent
Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed this video and would like to help support this channel, please check out my books on Canadian history and folklore:
mysteriesofcanada.com/bookshop
The fascinating intersection of history and mystery is embodied in the memoir of Paul Kane, an Irish-Canadian artist who, in the mid-late 1840s, at the very height of the Hudson Bay Company’s fur trade empire, travelled across North America and back, accompanying various HBC fur brigades. In this piece, we explore Paul Kane’s intriguing contributions to the mysteries of the Canadian fur trade.
Co-Producer: Dan Chomistek
ChomistekFilms.com
Thumbnail Art by August Swinson, Member of Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation in Ontario:
AugustIllustrated.Squarespace.com
With artwork by:
Just Tom’s Art
JustTomsArt.com
And Hannah Parker
HannahParkerArts.com
And, of course, Paul Kane.
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:02:05 – Paul Kane’s Journey
0:06:48 - The Wendigo of the Grand Portage
0:10:03 - Journey Across the Prairies
0:15:34 - The Legend of Oldman Creek
0:17:53 - The Skookums of Mount St. Helens
0:19:18 - A First Nations Healing Ceremony
0:23:33 - The Dalles des Morts
0:29:17 - Battle Between the Blackfoot and Cree
0:33:36 - The Lactating Man
0:34:54 - The Shaking Tent
![Mysteries of the Beaver Wars [NEW 2024 Historical Mystery Documentary]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kItJw7mx64M/mqdefault.jpg "Mysteries of the Beaver Wars [NEW 2024 Historical Mystery Documentary]
In this video, we take a look at strange tales from the bloodiest period in Canadian history – the last sixty years of the 17th Century, characterized by a series of armed conflicts between New France and the Iroquois Confederacy known collectively as the Beaver Wars.
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:02:46 - Outbreak of the Beaver Wars
0:05:09 - The Vision of Jean de Brebeuf
0:08:53 - The Ghost of Antoine Daniel
0:13:45 - Ritual Hematophagy
0:16:10 - The Miraculous Cure of Jeanne Mance
0:24:11 - The Talking Head of Jean Saint-Pere
0:26:13 - Miracles of Ste. Anne de Petit-Cap
0:29:13 - Battle of Long Sault
0:32:16 - The Haunting of Barbe Hallay
0:37:27 - The Shroud of Lemaitre
0:40:06 - The Ghosts of Point Iroquois
0:42:12 - The Charlevoix Earthquake of 1663
0:52:00 - The Carignan-Salieres
0:53:23 - Loup-Garou
0:54:22 - The Piasa Bird
0:59:07 - Vanishing of Le Griffon
1:02:45 - End of the Beaver Wars
Thanks for watching! If you’d like to get a signed copy of my book, and support my work in the process, please check out my brand new e-store:
https://MysteriesOfCanada.com/Bookshop/")
![Mount Rushmores Secret Faces [Historical Mystery Unearthed]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZmrjpnbWAs/mqdefault.jpg "Mount Rushmores Secret Faces [Historical Mystery Unearthed]
In this video, we explore the little-known story of an ancient Sioux prophecy which appears to have predicted the creation of Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, and to have alluded to other hidden faces which the mountain has yet to reveal.")
