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Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario was founded by the Church of Scotland as Queen’s College in October 1841. Queen’s is one of Canada’s oldest degree-granting institutions, predating the country itself by 26 years. With such a long history, rich traditions, and fabled architecture, the university was bound to pick up a ghost or two. Nearly…
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Fairmont Château Laurier in Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada’s most lavish and elegant hotel and sits just up Wellington Street from Canadian Parliament. The granite and white Italian marble building was designed in French Renaissance and neo-Gothic style and built in 1912 for $2 million at the behest of railroad baron Charles Melville Hays. Some say he…
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The Prince George Hotel, a downtown Kingston, Ontario landmark, began its life as an elegant residence. Since then, it has anchored Kingston’s historic Market Square and been part of the city’s rich history and folklore. It was originally a family home owned by Lawrence Herchmer, built between 1817 and 1820 adjacent to Kingston’s City Hall on…
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By day, McBurney Park in Kingston, Ontario, appears to be an ordinary neighborhood green space. Beneath the grass, however, lie thousands of forgotten graves, a grim history of body snatching and epidemics, and decades of ghost stories that earned the site its chilling nickname: “Skeleton Park.” McBurney Park in Kingston, Ontario—better known locally as “Skeleton…
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A woman dressed in black is believed to wander the halls of this beautiful French Victorian-style bed & breakfast. John and Harriet McIntyre built this home in 1879. Private entrepreneurs converted the mansion into a bed and breakfast in 1985. Passersby have reportedly seen a ghostly woman wearing a black, Victorian-style dress sitting in a chair by…
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