List of reportedly haunted locations in Canada

This is a list of locations in Canada which are reported to be haunted. Many have been featured by television programs such as Creepy Canada, The Girly Ghosthunters and Mystery Hunters. It is in alphabetical order by province or territory, then by the name of the location.

Alberta

Banff Springs Hotel

• Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Park.^[1] An anonymous young bride and a deceased bellman reportedly haunt this hotel.

Hotel Macdonald

• Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton.^[2]
• Walterdale Playhouse in Old Strathcona.^[3]

• Charles Camsell Hospital

British Columbia

Hatley Castle

• The Vernon Towne Theatre in Vernon, British Columbia. Built in 1929, the Vernon Towne Theatre was originally opened as The National Ballroom. The National Ball Room was a live venue and was then converted to a movie theatre/live venue in the mid-1930's and operated as the Capitol Theatre until the early 1980's. Famous Players vacated the building and it has operated as a full time movie theatre ever since. Many strange things have been observed over the years, including phantom music, apparitions in the auditorium and ghost sitings in the projection room. During the showing of Memoirs of a Geisha, one female patron reported that her friend in the seat next to her was having trouble breathing... an ambulance was called and the manager went in to assist the struggling woman, only to find that she was already dead, with a look of absolute terror frozen on her face.

• British Columbia Penitentiary in New Westminster. The former penitentiary was active for 102 years, until decommissioned during the 1980s. Not much of the building is left, save for the Boot Hill graveyard.
• Hatley Castle in Colwood. This castle is haunted by a parlour maid named Annabelle and James Dunsmuir's son, James Dunsmuir, Jr.^[4] It was featured by Creepy Canada.
• Tranquille Sanitorium is another site that is very haunted, this was a Sanitorium for those with tuberculosis, and many experiments were done here, so many lost their lives here, it is known that the tunnels below the Sanitorium you can hear screams. ^[5]

• Riverview hospital a mental health facility opened in 1913, mentally ill patients were kept in the then named "insane asylum" where some of the methods used to "treat patients" nowadays in modern medicine are considered inhumane. the hospital and it's buildings are known to be a hotspot for paranormal activity, most commonly a former janitor walking the halls and several patients. you can also hear sounds made by the spirits of the mistreated patients echoing down the halls of buildings. ^[6]

Manitoba

Fort Garry Hotel

• Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg. It was featured by Creepy Canada.

New Brunswick

The Algonquin Resort.

• The Algonquin Resort in St. Andrews.^[7] It was featured by Creepy Canada.
• Blackville. The Dungarvon Whooper reputedly haunts this Dungarvon River, which runs in Miramichi near the Bartholomew River. It was featured by Mystery Hunters and Creepy Canada.
• Fireship of Baie des Chaleurs is a 16th-century ship of forty Portuguese settlers that was set afire by a British army.

Newfoundland & Labrador

• Wabana Iron Ore Mines on Bell Island. It was featured on Creepy Canada.

Northwest Territories

Nahanni National Park Reserve

• Nahanni National Park Reserve in Fort Simpson.^[8]

Nova Scotia

Inside the Citadel Hill in 2004.

Fortress of Louisbourg's fortifications

• Acadia University in Wolfville. An apparitional Baptist girl who found out about her pregnancy in the 19th century hanged herself in "The Well", a large open area on the second floor surrounded by banisters and under a skylight. Her ghost is most often seen by faculty staff members on the back stairwell at Seminary House's campus. Other paranormal activities are people having strange visions in this location, lights that turn on and off by themselves as well as doors opening and closing on their own, light anomalies, disembodied voices, objects moving by themselves and strange unexplained noises.^[9]
• All Saints Cathedral in Halifax. This church is allegedly haunted by one of the former deans. He is mostly standing at the altar.^[10]
• Bedford Basin in Halifax. This site is reportedly haunted by spirits of Native Canadians, French, British and Canadian soldiers and family members. There are touches, pushes and pulls by invisible presences, light anomalies, apparitional footsteps, shadowy figures disembodied voices and other unexplained noises.
• Citadel Hill in Halifax.
• Fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island. This massive fortress, constructed during the 1700s, was featured by Creepy Canada.
• Seal Island, an island on the outermost extreme of Southwestern Nova Scotia, in Municipalité Argyle in Yarmouth County. There is a local legend of a ghost from a shipwreck during 1891, the SS Ottawa. A stewardess named Annie Lindsey was believed drowned when her lifeboat overturned. She was buried beside the East End church where her grave marker can still be seen today.^[11] but some believe that when the coffin was later disinterred, it showed evidence that she was buried alive. Her spirit is said to haunt the Seal Island villages.
• Young Teazer at Mahone Bay. Paranormal incidents have been reported by witnesses since it sunk on June 27, 1813. This ghostly burning schooner is seen by mariners on this bay. It is most often seen by visitors near the anniversary of this ship's fatal explosion in its historical location. Most witness reports state once seen it then just vanishes. It was featured by Creepy Canada.

Ontario

• Welland Canal, bridge 13 in Welland. This bridge is said to be haunted by canal workers who perished during its construction and no less than 7 people who have died trying to scale the bridge towers.
• Bytown Museum in Ottawa. This building is said to be haunted by Colonel John By, the builder of the canal, and his assistant General Duncan McNab. It was featured by Creepy Canada and The Girly Ghosthunters.
• Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake. It was one of Canada's strongholds during the War of 1812.^[12] It was featured by Creepy Canada and The Girly Ghosthunters.
• Gibraltar Point Lighthouse on Toronto Islands. The first lighthouse keeper, John Paul Radelmuller, was murdered by soldiers from nearby Fort York looking for bootlegged beer on January 2, 1815. These soldiers were charged with murder but eventually acquitted. A coffin was found during 1893 buried in the sand with a jawbone in it but it is not clear whether this was part of the lighthouse keeper's remains or not. It was featured by Creepy Canada.
• Grand Theatre in London. Ambrose Small's apparition reputedly roams this theatre. It was featured by Mystery Hunters and The Girly Ghosthunters.
• Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.^[13]
• Mather-Walls House in Kenora. It was featured by Creepy Canada.
• Ottawa Jail Hostel in Ottawa. It was featured by Creepy Canada and The Girly Ghosthunters.
• Screaming Tunnel in Niagara Falls.
• Old Fort Erie in Fort Erie.
• Buck hill in ontario in Round Lake, Ontario.
• Texas Road in Amherstburg.

Prince Edward Island

• Ghost Ship of Northumberland Strait is described as a beautiful schooner that has three masts (sometimes four masts, as reports vary) with pure white sails, all of which become completely engulfed in flames as onlookers watch.^[14] There never seems to be a predetermined place for where the ship will appear.^[14] Sightings have occurred throughout the seasons, but seem to be more prevalent from September to November.^[15] These visions are also apparent before a northeast wind, and folklore has it that this brilliant ghost ship is a forewarning of a storm.^[15]

Quebec

• Auberge Le Saint-Gabriel in Old Montreal. This site is allegedly haunted by a 19th-century little girl who lost her life in a fire.^[16]
• John Abbott College in Montreal. This building is about 100 years old. Spirits allegedly roam around in a specific area opening doors. Their spirits have been recognized by the janitors or guards, and by the students.
• McGill University in Montreal.^[17]
• St. John's Shrewsbury Anglican Church in Gore.^[18]

Saskatchewan

Government House with adjacent visitor and administration centre.

• Fort Battleford in Battleford.^[19]
• Fort San in Fort Qu'Appelle.
• Government House in Regina.^[20]
• St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon.^[21]
• Saskatchewan Hospital in North Battleford.

See also

• List of ghosts
• List of reportedly haunted locations in France
• Reportedly haunted locations in the United Kingdom

References