Yes, there really were Canadian pirates and they didn''t always say ''please,'' ''thank you,'' and ''excuse me,'' either.Discover the stories of Peter Easton, Bartholomew "Black Bart" Roberts, Simeon Perkins, Bill Johnston, the Liverpool Packet and more.

Geordie Telfer is a writer, actor, radio performer and artist in Toronto, Ontario. As a child, he practiced flying by leaping onto a beanbag chair, and his dream job was to become Batman. Unfortunately, neither ambition turned out, but his passion for adventure remains. Geordie has been the assistant director for the Toronto Studio Players Theatre School, a freelance set carpenter, and a web and television writer. He worked extensively on deafplanet.com, the first TV show and website in American Sign Language, and has written several nature documentaries. Resident pirate expert, Geordie has always been interested in the swashbuckling adventurers. This is his second purely pirate-y publication.