11 Haunted Places in Canada
Every case file on record in Canada — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file. Browse the archive below, or open the world map.
Banff Springs Hotel — The Castle in the Rockies
B · Banff, Alberta, Canada — A Scottish-baronial railway castle in the Rockies with a doomed bride, a bellhop who never checked out, and a sealed room.…
Château Frontenac — The Governor and the Lady in White
B · 1 Rue des Carrières, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada — Canada's grand railway château, standing over the St Lawrence since 1893, carries the country's best-known hotel hauntings: Louis de Buade, Count of Frontenac — the fiery governor of New France whose …
Château Laurier — The Guest Who Never Checked In
B · 1 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — Ottawa's grand railway château beside Parliament Hill, built by the president of the Grand Trunk Railway who booked its opening for April 1912 — and went down with the Titanic twelve days before it, t…
Craigdarroch Castle — The Coal Baron's Widow
B · Victoria, British Columbia, Canada — Robert Dunsmuir's 1890 Scottish-baronial mansion on its Victoria hilltop — a National Historic Site where the widow Joan Dunsmuir outlived her husband and the family fortune dissolved into lawsuits, a…
Fort Chambly Ghost Walk
B · Chambly, Quebec, Canada — An 18th-century French stone fort on the Richelieu — lantern walks among soldiers who never got the order to stand down.…
Fort Garry Hotel — Room 202's Waiting Bride
A · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada — Winnipeg's 1913 railway château and National Historic Site, whose own official literature concedes “it is said that the Fort Garry is haunted” — most famously by a bride who died in Room 202 and, gues…
Gibraltar Point Lighthouse
B · Toronto Islands, Toronto, Canada — The oldest lighthouse on the Great Lakes, whose German-born first keeper vanished one January night in 1815 after soldiers came for his home-brewed beer — Toronto's founding ghost story.…
Keg Mansion — The Maid in the Mirror
B · Toronto, Ontario, Canada — A Victorian industrialist's mansion on Jarvis Street — now a steakhouse — where the women's washroom mirror is said to show a hanging maid, a grief legend attached to one of Toronto's most documented …
South Nahanni Valley — The Valley of Headless Men
B · Nahanni Butte, Northwest Territories, Canada — Canada's famous 'Valley of Headless Men': the South Nahanni river country of the Northwest Territories, where in 1908 the headless bodies of the McLeod brothers were found on the bank, where Dene trad…
Ottawa Jail Hostel — Death Row With Bunk Beds
A · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada — The Carleton County Gaol of 1862 — a prison so inhumane it closed in 1972 — now a youth hostel where guests sleep in the cells of death row, beneath the gallows yard where the last public hanging in C…
The Screaming Tunnel — Niagara's Burning Girl
C · Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada — A narrow limestone tunnel under a rail line outside Niagara Falls — walk in and strike a match, they say, and a girl's scream fills the air.…