The Trials of Maggie Pollock
When
Runs from
Wednesday July 31 2024
to Thursday August 29 2024
Approximate running time: 2 hours and 20 minutes
Venue
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World Premiere
Seer? Swindler? Sorcerer? The true story of the last woman in Canada to be convicted of witchcraft…and who just so happened to have been born in Blyth! Arrested on her home farm just outside of town, held in the historic Gaol near Lake Huron, and tried in Goderich court, her case went all the way to the Supreme Court of Ontario. Long after the arrival of the telephone, the motor-car, and the electric light bulb, Maggie Pollock faced off against official superstition in Canada's courts.