List of Reportedly Haunted Locations in The World - Canada

Canada

• 455 Rue Saint Pierre in Old Montreal. This building was built in 1865 when what would become the province of Quebec was still under French rule. Eventually it would come into possession of Pierre du Calvert who sympathized with the Americans during the Revolution and entertained some famous visitors including Benjamin Franklin. It is rumoured that Pierre's wife, Mary-Louise, haunts this former building. This building was very nearly demolished to make room for condominiums but was converted in to loft style apartments in the early 2000s.

• Auberge Willow Place Inn in Hudson, Quebec. First built in the 1820s, the story says that a young servant girl named "Maude" was murdered by a group of men plotting a military uprise at the inn in the 1830s. They buried her in the basement, but Maude's ghost remained at the inn. She can be heard singing in the hallways, knocking over objects, and stacking rocks outside of the door of room #8 mostly during the month of November.

• Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta. It is an alleged paranormal site. A young bride, who died of a broken neck on her wedding day in 1932, has also reportedly been seen within the hotel grounds. Dressed in her wedding gown, she was descending a staircase. She tripped on her gown and fell down the stairs. Her ghost can reportedly be seen dancing alone in the dining room only to burst into flames. The apparitional resident is reportedly a former employee of this hotel. A bellhop died after announcing his retirement in 1976, Sam Macauley has lived on in the eyes of some guests and staff members, who claim to have seen visions of the man in full uniform, helping out guests just as if he had never left. Hotel guests and staff have reported sightings of a bartender's ghost telling customers that they have drank too much and need to go to bed. An apparitional headless male bagpiper has been reported on occasion.

• Blackville, New Brunswick. The Dungarvon Whooper haunts the Dungarvon River, which runs in Miramichi near the Bartholomew River. It is a terrifying apparition, involving a young Irishman named Ryan who was working as a cook in a lumber camp at the time of his murder. According to the tale, Ryan's ghost makes a loud whooping and yelling noise each night in the forest at the location of his death. Any young person from Blackville, or the surrounding area is likely to have been told the story, either to simply scare them or perhaps to scare them away from going deep into the dense forests that surround Blackville, for their own safety.

• Château Frontenac in Quebec City. The apparition of 17th Century governor, Louis de Buade, is frequently seen. He is said to be on an eternal search for his fiancee who was in Europe at the time of his death. He is seen in period clothing sitting on windowsills, wandering the hallways and the ballroom and staring at sleeping guests in their rooms. A woman's ghost with long hair dressed in a sleeping gown in seen in many guest rooms; she has even been known to lie down in bed with guests.

• The Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. The apparition of thin man with a mustache walking the halls with a cane who is thought to be that of the building’s architect, Francis Rattenbury, has been seen. Also, the apparitional maid is seen on the sixth floor still cleaning after death. One room is haunted by a little girl who is often seen by guests staying in the room. During the 1960s, a construction worker working on the west tower's top floor saw a shadowy form swinging from the ceiling; apparently another worker hung himself there a year earlier. This area has now been converted into high luxury suites. Guests have reported having an elderly woman in pajamas knocking on their door and looking lost. Upon trying to find her room she leads people toward the elevator before simply disappearing. She is thought to be a specter who once haunted one room (after dying of natural causes) but that room was demolished to make room for more elevators leaving her missing in this hotel.

• Fort Garry Hotel in Manitoba. The most notorious level of this hotel is the second floor which locates Room 202. Guests to the room have reported waking up to find the dark silhouette of a figure in a robe or cloak standing at the end of the bed, which vanished before their eyes. There are also stories of maids cleaning the room reporting bloody seeping from the walls, as this was the location of the rumored suicide of a woman named Kate learned that her newly husband lost his life in an automobile accident. Though something of a focal point for the reports of paranormal activity on the floor, the entire second floor has something of a ghostly reputation. Other reports have a woman in a ball gown appearing at the foot of a bed or wandering the hotel's hallways. In 1989, an employee reported seeing an apparitional figure named Theodore sitting at a table in the dining room, busily consuming away at a ghostly meal and apparently unaware of the employee's presence. This man visited many times because he was in love with the lounge singer. He was shot in the back of the head by his brother because they both loved the same woman. Employees also report strange moaning noises that seem to echo from nowhere and a phantom light is said to be sighted floating down the halls throughout the hotel. For the most part, the claims of haunted activity throughout the hotel seem to indicate a friendly presence of some bygone customer enjoying their stay in the afterlife.

• Fort York in Toronto, Ontario. It is known as a site with a fair amount of ghostly activities, which are presumably attributed to its military history (and the associated deaths which took place there when it was attacked on various occasions by American forces during the War of 1812). Visitors have reported peculiar noises of battle including cannon fire and gun fire, on the grounds and in the buildings, as well as sightings of apparitional soldiers (both British and American).

• Galt Museum & Archives in Lethbridge, Alberta. When this museum was a hospital, a man named George Bailey lost his life in an accident inside the elevator in 1933 while being wheeled to the operating room for a routine appendectomy. Apparitional footsteps of a man in slippers have since been heard walking through the halls at night. The elevator has also been known to mysteriously open when a living person walks nearby.

• Government House in Regina, Saskatchewan. Over the years, several staff and former students have observed strange occurrences at this place. Doors have been said to open and close repeatedly with no one near, the sound of crying babies and laughing children have been heard late at night with no one around, and others have claimed to see eerie faces next to theirs when looking into mirrors. One particular apparition of note is "Howie", believed to be the former cook of Lieutenant-Governor Archibald McNab. Many believe that his ghost roams the house; his footsteps often heard shuffling through the halls. He even has a say in the interior decorating—witnesses have inexplicably found objects shifted or moved from one room to another.

• La Boheme Restaurant Bed and Breakfast in Edmonton, Alberta. Legend has it that a female employee in the building was murdered and dragged down three flights of stairs to the basement. She was dismembered and fed piece-by-piece into the furnace there. The original furnace is still in use and the sound of her head banging on the floor down three flights of stairs can be heard at night.

• Nordin, New Brunswick. The Headless Nun was once an 18th century resident of the French Fort Cove area named Sister Marie Inconnue (Inconnue being the French for 'unknown') who was subsequently beheaded. Details of the legend vary: in one version, a "mad trapper" cut off her head and ran into the woods with it. In another story, two sailors cut off her head after she refused to divulge the location of a treasure. This haunting story holds that Sister Marie's head was never found, resulting in her ghost forever roaming the area in search of it. Today, "Headless Nun" tours are among the tourist attraction offerings in Nordin.

• Ottawa Jail Hostel in Ottawa, Ontario. Many prisoners met their death while remaining in this jail. When individuals lost their life within the prison, they were often burned and buried in a makeshift cemetery that was located in the back of the establishment. There was also a "Death Row" in which many feel is haunted by several ghosts that were put to death there. One example of a ghost that is considered to lurk among this area is a man whose name was Patrick James Whelan. Many have said that they have seen his full apparitional writing, wandering in the area, and walking towards the area that was considered to be the "gallows" when this structure served as a prison.

• Rebecca Lutes' Grave in Moncton, New Brunswick. There is a myth about a 16-year-old girl named Rebecca Lutes who apparently died in 1876 when the city of Moncton when she was found guilty of witchcraft. When she was buried, they apparently threw her in upside down so she wouldn't dig herself out. They also put a four block slab of concrete on top so she could never get out.

• St. Louis, Saskatchewan. Although the railroad tracks are abandoned, the ghost light appears in this area after nightfall. There are a number of paranormal and natural theories as to why it happens, but the legend about a drunk brakeman who lost his head on the tracks due to a train passing by him and this ghost searches for it by lantern light.

• West Point, Prince Edward Island. The lighthouse's first keeper, William MacDonald haunts next door to the inn, and a fiery ship sails off the coast of O'Leary. It is thought to be a flaming pirate schooner whose sailors are doomed to sail the seas forever.