Fifty-Dollar Bill is my name for the spirit of William Lyon Mackenzie
King, Canada’s tenth Prime Minister and the guy whose face is on the
fifty-dollar bank note. With over twenty-one years as Canada’s national
leader, he holds the record as the longest serving Prime Minister in
the British Commonwealth. He was also a closet occultist and liked to
commune with the spirits of Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
his dead mother, and several of his Irish terrier dogs, all named Pat.
That now, nearly sixty years after his death, the guy likes to commune
with the world of the living, well… let’s just say the irony isn’t
lost on me.