Talking with Ghosts: Haunting in Canadian Cultural Production.

This article reports that in the year 1833, author Catharine Parr Traill said that ghosts or spirits had banished from Canada. Over a hundred years later, Canadian poet and critic Earle Birney echoed her sentiments by stating that it was only by Canadians luck of ghosts they were haunted. Nonetheless, despite or perhaps because of Birney's suggestion that Canadians are haunted by a lack of spectres, contemporary Canadian authors, artists, and filmmakers are obsessed with ghosts and haunting. A host of writers and artist have taken pains to map the intricacies of haunting.