There is a statue on Parliament Hill to William Lyon Mackenzie King, the prime minister who held séances and talked to his dead dog. Each day, at 4 p.m., it is said Sparks Street turns into a ghost town. There are multiple inexplicable stories in the capital apart from cabinet appointments. She took them through a darkened park and down into the Byward Market, at each stop telling a particularly gruesome tale of horror. Ellis took her tour group down along the Rideau Canal, where as many as 1,000 poor Irish died of "swamp fever" and accidents while building a strategic military route that was never needed and never used. 32-calibre bullet slamming into the back of his head.įrom the street where McGee once lay dying, Ms. The Father of Confederation had been assassinated, a. Owner Mary Ann Trotter had heard him and came hurrying down to open the door, only to see and hear a deafening flash behind the politician and watch, dumbstruck, as his dentures came flying out and clattered down the hallway. Dressed in Victorian-era black and carrying a lantern, she led the tour down Sparks Street, where, in the early hours of April 7, 1868, Thomas D'Arcy McGee had fumbled with the key to his boarding house.
This tour was led by Victoria Ellis, a young woman with a fresh master's degree in Canadian Studies from Carleton University.
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