The stone walls of Quebec City have protected its residents from more than just invading armies. In the middle of the 1700s, the Gazette de Québec reported that a werewolf was on the loose. It was far from the first "loup-garou" to stalk the colony: stories of werewolves had accompanied French settlers to Canada ever since they began crossing the Atlantic. But this beast appeared at a particularly uneasy time: the first decade of British rule over New France. The werewolf was said to terrorize the colonists for years, hunted and feared, until he finally disappeared without a trace.