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Hidden Ontario
HIDDEN ONTARIO
Introduction
Acton
Algonquin Provincial Park
Bala
The Baldoon Mysteries
Bancroft
The Bay Monster and the Shadow
Belleville
Brighton
Burlington
Cobalt
Cobourg
Cochrane
Creemore
Curve Lake
Gore’s Landing
Holland Landing
Ivanhoe
Kapuskasing
Keene
Kingston
Lake Superior Sites
Lindsay
Madoc
Marmora
Muskoka
Gravenhurst
Bracebridge
Huntsville
North Bay
Oshawa
Ottawa
Parry Sound
Pickering
Port Hope
Port Perry
Presqu’ile Provincial Park
Sault Ste. Marie
Scarborough
The Ghost of Tom Thomson — Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park
Timmins
Toronto
Trenton
Whitby
Bibliography
Newspapers
Haunted Ontario
Contents
Introduction
The Swastika Hotel
The Ghost Road
The Jester’s Court. Restaurant and Pub
The Inn at the Falls
The Donnelly Homestead
The Canadian Museum of Nature
Carleton Gaol
The Bermuda Triangle. of the Great Lakes
The Ghost of Tom Thomson
The Severn River Inn
The Mackenzie Inn
The Prince George Hotel
A Haunted Farmhouse
The Guild Inn
The Oxford County. Courthouse and Jail
The Albion Hotel
The Royal Ontario Museum
Acknowledgements
If You would like to Visit
Bibliography
An Examination of Hauntings
Black Creek Pioneer Village, Toronto
If you would like to visit
Bibliography
Haunted Ontario 4
Introduction
Blinkbonnie Inn
Grafton Village Inn
MacKechnie House
The Orchards
The University of Toronto
The Hockey Hall of Fame
Joseph Brant Museum
Emma’s Back Porch
Fort George
Legg’s General Store
The Albion Hotel
Avon Theatre
Mylar and Loreta’s
Gravenhurst Opera House
Calhoun Lodge
Ojibway Hotel
Bungalow Camp
Time Travellers
Adamson Estate
Old Barber House Restaurant
Oakville Museum/Erchless Estate
Beild House Country Inn and Spa
Strathmore House/Brookside Youth Centre
Sharon Temple
Readers’ Response
If You Would Like to Visit
Bibliography
Discover Ontario
Dedication
Introduction
Memories of Ontario
Fishing
Lost North America
The Irish: Part 1
The Irish: Part 2
The Need to Remember
From the Sixties and Beyond
Prohibition
The Great Depression
Elders’ Conference, 1992
Nature in Victoria County
Memories of Ontario
The Brougham Apple Basket
Bancroft Rock Festival
Demographics
Shipwreck
A Young Bride’s Dream
The Paranormal and the Unexplained
The Mysteries of Long Point
Strange Creatures Swimming in Our Waters
Strange Lights in the Sky
The Discovery of the Crystal Skull
The Agawa Pictographs of Lake Superior
Beyond the Grave
Saving Lives on the French River
The Roswell Crash
Project Magnet
The Aboriginal Haunting in Orillia
Fairies and the Elemental World
A Pioneer of Paranormal Research
The Ghost Road
Alien Encounter in Ontario
The Mound Builders
Serpent Mounds
Ghosts
Who Murdered Billy Stone?
Interesting Residents
Sheriff Nelson Reynolds
Joseph Bigelow
George Reid, the Painter
Franklin and the Northwest Passage
David Boyle
David Suzuki
Gerald Sinclair Hayward
Grey Owl
Local Interest
Oil Springs: The Oil Capital of North America
Collingwood
Sarnia
London
Southampton
Penryn, Port Hope
The Dream of Owning a Castle
Ravensworth, Cobourg
The Mackenzie Estate, Kirkfield
Perth
Cornwall
Brooklin
Scugog Island
Stirling
Niagara Falls
Penmarvian, Paris
Wasaga Beach
Kincardine
Elora
The Conant Homestead, Oshawa
Moose Factory and Moosonee
Gores Landing
Long Beach
Oakville
Sudbury
Sault Ste. Marie
Gravenhurst and Bracebridge
Cochrane
Rodman Hall, St. Catharines
Bibliography
Copyright
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In the meantime, four firemen from Bracebridge and Gravenhurst had been locked up. Apparently, the firemen were intoxicated with liquor, singing dirty songs and cussing. Their cohorts threatened to destroy the jail if they were not released, and so they were, indeed, released from jail. The whole town suffered losses, but nevertheless, they rebuilt and eventually regained their former prosperity.
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