Cover
Contents
Note on the Photographs
Introduction. Science and Sentiment in the Hamilton Family Fonds
Part One: Historical Context
Chapter 1. Ghostly Pandemics: Speaking to the Dead in the Hamilton Family
Chapter 2. “Experiments and Experiences in Psychical Research”: Scientific Séances in Winnipeg
Chapter 3. Seeing and Feeling, Science and Religion: Negotiating Binaries in Lilian Hamilton’s Photographic Albums
Part Two: Archival Exploration
Chapter 4. Defending the T.G. Hamilton Family Psychical Research Legacy
Chapter 5. Life after Death: New Uses of the Hamilton Family Fonds
Part Three: Artistic Response
Chapter 6. “Weird Winnipeg”: Or How the Hamilton Family Fonds Helped to Make Winnipeg an Unlikely Centre of the Paranormal
Chapter 7. “Mere Symbolic Ectoplasm”: The Ectoplasmic Screen
Chapter 8. Journey to the Spirit Realm
Chapter 9. Embodying the Dead
Acknowledgements
Appendix. Hamilton Family Publications Psychical Research Experiments and Family History
Bibliography
Contributors
Index