Haunted Ontario 4 by Terry Boyle

Author:Terry Boyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: 2015-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

The family clan strike an amusing pose before attending dinner. Suit jackets and dresses highlight the summer fashion of 1922. Men never went fishing on the bay without wearing a tie.

Dockside at the Ojibway Hotel.

As the story goes, she went in search of him one night. He was nowhere to be found. He had not arrived for their usual tryst on the far side of the island. She returned to her quarters on the third floor in the east wing. There she succumbed to tears. A dreadful thought persisted. He had shown some interest in a female guest. Could it be?

She had to know. Stealthily she made her way to the tower room and at the door she heard his voice. In she went and there they were — entwined in a passionate embrace. She fled in horror.

At dusk the next day she waited for the tower room to empty. With a chair from the desk she reached to the rafters and tied a rope; with the noose around her neck she faced the setting sun and kicked the chair away. A dramatic end for her and her nightmare.

Here in the Ojibway Hotel she remains, a white, veiled figure. The young summer employees see her so often they have named her the White Lady. The sightings usually occur in the third-floor tower room where she took her life and in the east-wing room she once inhabited. Her spirit usually appears at the end of the day.

However, Ruth McCuaig is adamant that no suicide ever occurred at the hotel. “I knew Hamilton Davis and have spent sixty years in the area. At no time was there ever any mention of a woman hanging herself in the tower room.”

“I saw her,” said John Cameron, office manager of the Ojibway. “A friend and I were in the process of closing up the building down by the dock one night. As we were walking up the front steps to the hotel we both glanced up at the tower. There she was, standing in the window, staring out at the water. She appeared to be in her early thirties and about medium height with shoulder-length hair. My friend made a hasty retreat and she vanished.”

No one seems to know the woman’s name. Everyone at the hotel is aware of the haunting, but has no specific knowledge of the characters involved. A suicide in a popular hotel in the 1920s would have been quickly covered up, unseemly to discuss and bad for business. No one wants to occupy a room where someone has committed suicide. Haunted hotels were not in vogue as they are today.

Three years ago Christian Dempsey was an employee at the Ojibway. He was returning to the hotel at dusk one evening and entered the front of the building to attend to the snack bar. Later he left the building through the back entrance. Just as he stepped outside he looked up at the back of the hotel and caught sight of the white-veiled woman looking out of her old east-wing room on the third floor.

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