10/22/2020 blog

I suppose numeroligists would have a field day with today’s date. Two entries on hauntings in our northern neighbor Canada. I asked a neighbor in DC I tried to date if she would like to live in any other country, and she said Canada.

Montreal has a haunted hospital called The Old Royal Victoria, which the Life magazine  says is “looming over the city.” It has been there more than 122 years. I have heard that asylums are so carefully protected because they are trying to keep people out, not to keep them in.

Farther west, Canada has the Banff Springs hotel with “sweeping views of the Bow Valley.” I visited my older brother in the Colorado Rockies in the late 1980s with a casual school buddy. I don’t know. Mountains are very beautiful, but skiing on some of the steeper slopes scared the c— out of me. And I don’t even really like driving on hilly roads in the Appalachians.