Ghost Walks
Ghost Guide Daniel – – The city of Hamilton is uniquely haunted. When looking at recorded history, you’ll wonder… How can it be so haunted with such limited past?
Peel that away and realize there’s a hidden history of loyalist settlements. Still found in the names of smaller towns making up the city. And in the lost name of Barton, once a township at the centre of Hamilton.
It was now about 4:30am 29th April, 1944. I looked over the side of the Athabaskan at that cold uninviting water of the English Channel by now covered with thick, dirty, fuel oil.
My first thought was “Gee, I can’t jump into that”, but when I turned around and looked at the burning ship, which was beginning to settle to her watery grave, I suddenly decided, “Hell, I can’t stay here neither”.