The Stone Books
by The Last Recorder of the Druids,
John Hugh Roberts &
Dale Bertrand

In 1978 I came into a collection of writings on yellowed brittle parchment paper - over 140 manuscript pages. Many of these papers had mysterious number columns, strange heiroglyphics, and unusual letters and calculations. There were all written with a beautiful elegant penmanship. With these individual pages came 5 diaries covering approx 50 years of this mans life travels across Britain, Canada and the USA, all of these travels taking place between 1844 and 1912. These papers came to me in a unusual sequence of events that Dr. David Davies from Abergavenny Wales wrote me later, "it was typical of a planned campaign to get these writing into my hands."

These papers turned out to be written by a John Hugh Roberts, a man who professed to be the "Last Recorder of the Druids." John Hugh arrived in Vancouver BC with his family in the 1882 era. He eventually passed on in 1917 at Point Grey, Vancouver. His papers and writings remained in boxes in an attic at his grandsons house until he passed on in 1978, when they eventually came to my mother, Mary Bertrand.

Over the years many sycronistical events have taken place. One of these took place seven years after my first receipt of the manuscripts. We were at a loss on the meaning of much of the writing from the papers having determined that we only had approx. 20% of the papers. Then our close friends TW & JW visited Saltspring Island and were asked by another very closed friend DA to take this 'book' back to Dale as he had found it at the local recycling store at the dump at Ganges and when he opened it he immediately recognized Roberts handwriting. On examining the book we found that it provided the key to finally understanding these papers and their destiny.

Researching these document have taken me on travels to Wales, England, Ireland, Peru, Gautemala and Mexico. My wife and I spent some time living in Mexico and England reseaching the papers. While living in Birmingham we were able to take many trips to Wales and Cornwall to further our understanding of John Hugh Roberts.

The adventures of our stories are presently being developed into a novel -which will include part of the 'Stone Book of Knowledge' and our adventures relating to these manuscripts. A screenplay of the story of our adventures with flashbacks to the story of Robert's life will eventually evolve.

In November of 2004 we filmed 8 hours of material in Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland for which we will use for background material for a DVD (or video) and also it can used for a stepping stone to more filming of a documentary of The Stone Books, by The Recorder of the Druids.

We intend to eventually publish the whole of the Book of Knowledge along with the Manuscripts and Illuminations. Presently we have had three articles published in the Celtic Connection newspaper. One in June of 2005 called John Hugh Roberts , and another published in September called Mystical Writings of a Cymric Soul and one in October 2005 called The Galcerth of Halloween a story written by John Hugh Roberts at the turn of the century.