{"id":1003977,"date":"2017-02-12T03:37:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T02:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress4.local\/2017\/02\/12\/in-search-of-the-stories-and-legends-of-griffintown\/"},"modified":"2020-07-08T01:09:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T23:09:12","slug":"in-search-of-the-stories-and-legends-of-griffintown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/en\/blog\/search-stories-and-legends-griffintown","title":{"rendered":"In Search of the Stories and Legends of Griffintown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">At the Sainte-Anne church ruins, on the corner of Mountain and Basin Streets, our guide Robusquet tells us how only a few years ago a man walking on the street saw a ghost of a priest by a coffin. The tour of Haunted Griffintown has just begun and we\u2019re already captivated by our guide\u2019s stories, which are introducing us to a whole new side of Griffintown.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\" style=\"--ratio:66.6666666667%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_9909_lr.jpg\" alt=\"griffintown-hante-tour-guide-prevel-blogue\" class=\"wp-image-1003445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_9909_lr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_9909_lr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Robusquet, professional comedian, is the life of Haunted Griffintown tours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">Tours of Haunted Montreal<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">Back in 2012, Donovan King, a passionate consumer of history and haunted theater, had the idea of creating similar-themed tours in Montreal, starting with Mount Royal. Faced with an enthusiastic public response, other neighborhoods were added, including downtown, Old Montreal and, for the past 2 years, Griffintown.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><em><strong>87% of Canadians think ghosts are real and exist<\/strong><\/em><\/span>&#8221; he explains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><em><strong><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">&#8220;The tour features other, more well-known stories, such as Mary Gallagher&#8217;s, but also lesser-known tales, taken from internet research, interviews or books.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\" style=\"--ratio:66.6666666667%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/donovan_king.jpg\" alt=\"donovan-king-montreal-griffintown-hante-prevel-blogue\" class=\"wp-image-1003447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/donovan_king.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/donovan_king-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Donovan King, passionate history buff and founder of Haunted Montreal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">The Ghosts of Griffintown<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">Griffintown has one of the cities\u2019 richest histories, something we discover more and more about during our tour. This ancient portage site, used by the Natives to bypass the Lachine Rapids, became a working-class neighborhood with a mysterious past, before being virtually abandoned in 1963. An exodus of the population ensued, but the ghosts definitely stayed!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\" style=\"--ratio:66.6666666667%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0088_lr.jpg\" alt=\"Griffintown-hante-montreal-prevel-blogue\" class=\"wp-image-1003449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0088_lr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0088_lr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>The tour traces the sometimes poignant, sometimes mysterious history of the neighborhood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\" style=\"--ratio:66.6666666667%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0029_lr.jpg\" alt=\"tour-griffintown-hante-blogue-prevel\" class=\"wp-image-1003451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0029_lr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0029_lr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>St Anne&#8217;s Church, destroyed in 1970, is home to many stories and legends.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">After learning about the cholera and typhus epidemics, the mass arrival of Irish immigrants fleeing starvation, the abandoned tunnels and buildings, and the dark history of the Dow Brewery, we also learned that Griffintown was the site of the first workers&#8217; strike in Canada. The conflict finally ended with the intervention of the army and many dead and wounded strikers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\" style=\"--ratio:66.6666666667%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0081_lr.jpg\" alt=\"montreal-griffintown-hante-blogue-prevel\" class=\"wp-image-1003453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0081_lr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0081_lr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>The grassy Lachine Canal was the site of the first workers&#8217; strike in Canada.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">Epidemics that affected Griffintown, including cholera and typhus, also contributed to the neighborhood\u2019s dark past. One can almost see the quarantine barracks as Robusquet tells us the touching story of immigrants arriving after fleeing famine in Ireland. It is said that ghosts from that era sometimes come back around here.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\" style=\"--ratio:66.6666666667%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0127.jpg\" alt=\"tour-griffintown-hante-prevel-blogue\" class=\"wp-image-1003455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0127.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0127-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>The stories of Peel Basin were another strong part of our visit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">Another notable incident in Griffintown\u2019s history was a tragic plane crash that occurred when a bomber crashed on Ottawa Street on April 25, 1944.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">The tour concludes with the story of Griffintown&#8217;s most famous ghost, Mary Gallagher, a prostitute who was murdered in 1879 and would return every seven years to the corner of William and Murray Streets. The next time will be in 2019!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\" style=\"--ratio:66.6666666667%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0175.jpg\" alt=\"tours-griffintown-hante-montreal-blogue-prevel\" class=\"wp-image-1003457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0175.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_0175-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>The visit is punctuated by captivating stories of Griffintown.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">The tours, lasting approximately 90 minutes, are given in English and French. Haunted Montreal offers tours in various neighborhoods of Montreal, including a new one in the Redlight District, until October 31<\/span>st. Haunted Griffintown\u2019s final tour of 2016 is scheduled for October 7th, but other dates may be added. You can also organize private tours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">Continue your evening with some drinks at Brasseurs de Montreal<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">After an evening rich in stories and new discoveries, our last stop was at Brasseurs de Montr\u00e9al to regain our strength. In Griffintown since 2008, they offer no less than fifteen beers brewed on site, including the Montreal Griffintown, a blond beer, and a few specialty beers such as the Ghosttown, a black beer with absinthe, perfect for after our Haunted Griffintown tour.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/MuotGy6N3MR_HpfERjjpJLjdYjPxKmwM7cVpPfRnIemuyW918hPKhN0e29MZGmmRGCwztXt1O65LyH9lxv7U4e_gXr9hl941TeoNLqPOxiuG5MF9WukYXsR_Dad20Dlpwv21I4hn\" alt=\"Trois-brasseurs-montreal-griffintown-prevel\"\/><figcaption>Brasseurs de Montr\u00e9al, ideal for beer fans!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image image\" style=\"--ratio:66.6666666667%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_9860_lr.jpg\" alt=\"calmars-bruschetta-trois-brasseurs-prevel-blogue\" class=\"wp-image-1003459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_9860_lr.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.prevel.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/MG_9860_lr-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Fried calamari and brushetta to share with friends.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hauntedmontreal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-37e782cb-3025-92dd-9de7-64e07fbc09c8\">Haunted Montreal<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6308dd5a-9bcc-9fbe-9b21-fe3a98457e38\">Contact:&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"mailto:info@hauntedmontreal.com\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">info@hauntedmontreal.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brasseurdemontreal.com\/\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6308dd5a-9bcc-9fbe-9b21-fe3a98457e38\">Brasseurs de Montr\u00e9al <\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-6308dd5a-9bcc-9fbe-9b21-fe3a98457e38\">1483, Ottawa Street&nbsp;<\/span><br>Montreal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Sainte-Anne church ruins, on the corner of Mountain and Basin Streets, our guide Robusquet tells us how only a few years ago a man walking on the street saw a ghost of a priest by a coffin. 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