Up the Gatineau! Article
This article was first published in Up the Gatineau! Volume 3.
The Windago
Down to comparatively recent times, some of the most primitive white people living in North America, the Gatineau mountaineers of Western Quebec, mostly of French and Irish descent, firmly believed that THE WINDAGO — an ubiquitous, blood-sucking witch — was forever haunting them in their thick spruce and fir forestland.
Reprinted from IT HAPPENED IN CANADA with the kind permission of its author, Mr. Gordon Johnston of London, Ontario.