MYSTERIOUS CANADA: STRANGE SIGHTS, EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS, AND PECULIAR PLACES John Colombo. Toronto, ON: Doubleday, 1989. 436pp., cloth, $29.95. ISBN 0-385-25150-5. CIP. Grades 3 and up / Ages 8 and up Reviewed by Melanie Fogel. Volume 18 Number 2 1990 March Someone should build a shrine to John Robert Colombo. He has produced the perfect Christmas/birthday/graduation present for under thirty dollars. It's worth a million. Mysterious Canada is a gazetteer of the strange, unexplained and legendary. From the well-known Magnetic Hill to the unrenowned Mississauga Blob, everything is here. And you don't have to be a reader or a rabid Canadian nationalist to enjoy it. Aboriginal legends, UFO sightings, ghosts, buried treasure, the hapless Major Sumerford who was struck by lightning no less than four times - who couldn't be interested? It's even got pictures. The articles are cleanly written and are for the most part short. Explanations are given only if they exist. The bibliography is nice. Nicer still are the references in the articles. Because of the geographic arrangement, I'd have preferred an encyclopedia-style index, but this is minor. Readers will no doubt remember precisely where their favourite weird stories took place. Melanie Fogel, Ottawa, ON.