A Vancouver Island author found the find of a lifetime at his local archives while doing research for an upcoming novel. Dean Unger, based in Lake Cowichan, was digging through the archives for his upcoming book. The town of Lake Cowichan, a community of almost 3,000 located at the east of end of Cowichan Lake on the southern end of Vancouver Island, boasts an impressive pedigree of literary connections. The family of Bram Stoker (1845 - 1912), who wrote the classic horror story Dracula in 1897, had an estate in Lake Cowichan. It's not known how the manuscript wound up at the museum, but Unger says to discover a manuscript from the Victoria-era is an especially rare find.

Source: CBC News February 17, 2019 18:56 UTC