Downtown Hamilton Tours

Downtown Hamilton | Dedicated to the Haunted City

A tour 15 years in the making! Downtown Hamilton has some of its best ghost stories.

With main landmarks the Royal Connaught, Right House, Hamilton Place, St. Paul’s Church and the Gothic Pigott Building.

The colourful women ghosts and a secret haunted gem. The love of a caretaker defies death, proof theatres are just more haunted and our connection to Jack the Ripper.

Experiencing the haunted city in a really unique way.

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Gore Park

This fountain is a symbol of Hamilton, with a dark history

St. Paul's Church

They knew the tallest stone steeple was filled with gremlins

Whitehern

The city’s secret haunted mansion

Royal Connaught Courtyard

Corner of King St East & John St
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Prices

Adults . . . . . . . $14.16
Kids 13 & under . . . . $12.39

+ HST Tax / No Hidden Fees!

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Dates

Friday Sep 25 2020
- Full at 800p
- Full at 815p

Friday Oct 9 2020
- Tour at 700p
- Tour at 830p

Friday Oct 16 2020
- Tour at 700p
- Tour at 715p
- Tour at 830p
- Tour at 845p

Friday Oct 30 2020
- Tour at 700p
- Tour at 715p
- Tour at 830p
- Tour at 845p

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FAQ & About Downtown Hamilton

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Why we are different from other Ghost Tours?

A focus on masterful storytelling and a reasonable price. We’ve put special attention into respecting the ghost story. This dedication to traditional styles mixes well with the natural (and only interesting) odd history. It’s been our specialty since 2003!

Do we go into any of the buildings?

This is an outdoor tour in Hamilton’s core. Most locations are abandoned, closed at night, unable accommodate our group… or is an alleyway! Book for our indoor tours at Ruthven and Castle Kilbride

Are group discounts available?

If you have a group of 8 or more people we may be able to provide a discount depending on night and time of year. Find out by Making Contact. Mention the number of people and desired date for your group.

Are you connected to HH for Hamilton Tours?

No. There was a connection a few years back for promotion only. Ended in 2012. All Hamilton based, and other tours, originated from our same love of ghost stories starting with Downtown Hamilton in 2003.

Additional Info | Is Downtown Hamilton Ghostly?

Hamilton is the “Ambitious City”

Big names doing big things like actors Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Kathleen Robertson, hockey coach Pat Quinn and even a top politician named Sheila Copps all called Hamilton home. And no area embodies this like Downtown Hamilton.

Ambitious energy can be dark too. Like murderess Evelyn Dick and Canada’s own Al Capone, a bootlegger named Rocco Perri. Rocco called Hamilton his home off of Bay Street South, as told on Hamilton’s Dark History.

Even one of the top suspects in the Jack the Ripper murder case did business (and crime) near current day Royal Connaught.

Colourful women spirits of Downtown Hamilton

The Lady in White at the Royal Connaught, Lady in Brown at the old Capitol Theatre and the fittingly dramatic Lady in Red at Hamilton Place Theatre. All featured on the Ghost Walks.

And featuring a darker past for Downtown Hamilton’s famous family, the McQuesten’s. Three generations before the rise of Ontario’s first roads minister, Thomas Baker McQuesten. Whitehern, our hidden historical gem, holds much energy. Stories kept from the public until we came along. With the tragic life of Isaac and his ghost just accepted by the employees.

The Right House

This was Hamilton’s first department store. The creator, Thomas Watkins, loved its elevators. This is proven as on his day off he dressed like a conductor and played with them. Some were witness to the fact he still loves them today, over 100 years after his death.

St. Paul’s Church

A church with the tallest free-standing stone steeple in Ontario. Designed by William Thomas who also created the Niagara-on-the-Lake Courthouse, Brock’s Monument and Toronto’s Don Jail. The church got its first bell upgrade in the 1940’s, but right from the start they never worked.

Beside the church is one of only two cemeteries in downtown. Not that Hamilton isn’t t historic. It’s because of a strange by-law passed. This created one of Canada’s oldest city cemeteries now across from Dundurn Castle.

Hamilton remains the “ambitious city” with many new projects. And among them some of the most haunted buildings in Canada.

Bonus Dark History | Moving the Dead

They Moved the Bodies

There are only two small graveyards left in Downtown Hamilton. Not because the city didn’t have them. Hamilton’s core is very historic once containing many backyard pioneer cemeteries.

This would change with the creation of one of Canada’s oldest city cemeteries, the Hamilton Cemetery. Setup at Burlington Heights across from Dundurn Castle. However it wasn’t an official cemetery until… oh, how do we say it? Until residents were moved in.

Hamilton didn’t want to wait for people to die. They spent tax payer money to create one of the strangest by-laws in Canadian history.

“You can’t bury your dead in the backyard. All must be buried in the Hamilton plots.” And strangest of all… “you can’t grandfather in the current graveyards!”

Tax Money to Dig Up Loved Ones

Tax payer money spent for men with carriages and shovels. They went around and dug up people’s loved ones. The coffins moved into waiting plots of the Hamilton Cemetery. This included the Hamilton family (where city gets its name) now located just inside the main gate on the left.

Visit the St. Paul’s cemetery on the Ghost Walks of Downtown Hamilton

Precautions for COVID-19

Tours are capped at 14-16 people with social distancing and a strong recommendation for masks.

Downtown Hamilton

Gore Park

St. Paul's Church