Written by Danika Grenier for Ottawa Insider
When I booked tickets for the Haunted Walk of Ottawa’s Ghosts and the Gallows tour, I simply thought that it would be an entertaining evening.
My cousin, who had moved to the desert state of Arizona in the United States 10 years ago, was visiting with his girlfriend, who had never been to Ottawa or to Canada before and this seemed like a unique way for them to see Canada’s capital city.
None of us are particularly brave, but I assured them that the tour had more to do with historical facts than ghostly encounters—though I failed to mention that this particular walking tour focused on the HI-Ottawa Jail Hostel, which is often said to be one of Canada’s “most haunted buildings.”