Paranormal Metrou Imported Post Orangeville, Ontario,Canada Claims of disembodied footsteps and shadow figures walking about after hours were enough to get a local paranormal investigation team to the old town hall for a further investigation. The Meadowvale Spookies Paranormal Research Team visited the building ... When the investigation ended, at about 2 a.m., the team determined that the town hall is a highly spirited place. “The place is definitely active,” concluded researcher Carrie Pierce. “I would say this has been one of my best investigations. I felt there were a couple of people who walked out of it who were a lot less skeptical than they were when they walked in.” Ms. Pierce explained that the role of research teams like the Meadowvale Spookies is not only to confirm the presence of spirits at a location, but also to prove that there aren’t. “You play both sides of the fence when you do this type of work,” she said. “The idea is to first try and explain it logically.” The Meadowvale Spookies’ claim that the town hall is indeed haunted likely came as no surprise to Stephen Nixon, who works as assistant technical director of Theatre Orangeville, which uses the secondfloor Opera House. Due to the nature of his job, Mr. Nixon is often alone in the building at night. In an interview, he recalled two paranormal experiences. One time, he said, he was locking up after a performance when he saw a woman walking up the stairs from the basement. He called to her and said “sorry, but we’re closed.” The woman didn’t respond. Instead, she simply disappeared. On another occasion, when Mr. Nixon was doing repairs in the dressing rooms, he heard the sound of someone climbing a step ladder that was positioned on the stage. Concerned about health and safety regulations, he ran to the stage to tear a strip off the culprit, only to find there was nobody to be seen. In his profession, said Mr. Nixon, a presence of the inexplicable is fairly common. “I’ve been working in live theatre for 10 years, and I find that most venues have this weird feeling about them.” On Saturday night, a few people on hand claimed to see a shadowy figure in the council chambers. For those with a penchant for the glib, it could have been the ghost of a former councillor doomed to purgatory after committing political suicide. Witness the full apparition of the innkeepers wife at Greystones Inn in Orangeville. By David Waters James Graham married Mary Ann Campbell (1814-1858) around the time 1838. Census taken in the township of Amaranth in 1852 shows him married to Mary Ann Campbell, living in a one story log cabin with five children. The same year they moved to Orangeville, they were tenants of Jesse Ketchum. They leased the property and operated Greystones Inn, later called “Graham’s Tavern”. Graham may have bought the building in early 1876, but the purchase was never registered. Census taken in 1861 stated James Graham was the inn keeper of the Greystones Inn, born in Ireland, 50 years of age and married to his second wife Margaret, thus leading people to believe The Greystones Inn was built in 1850. James Graham occupied the Greystones property until he died in 1876. He did not leave a will. Between 1888-1890 Anne Graham, one of James’ daughters, and her husband Thomas Clegg, purchased The Greystones Inn. Both still reside at the Inn to this day! The Ghost of Red Feather Inn Keeper Thomas Clegg of Graham’s Tavern was believed to have been romantically linked to an Indian maiden whose native name was “Red Feather”. They are believed to have shared Graham’s Tavern together for a period of time until Thomas Clegg was drawn away by other pursuits. The body of his lover, Red Feather was subsequently discovered on the premises, her life taken by her own hand. To this day sightings of a woman’s figure are reported by staff & guests. In addition there are unexplained noises and gentle openings and closings of doors. She is a beneficent spirit whose loss of love and companionship is alleviated in some small measure by the hosts and guests of Greystones Inn & Spirits Pub. dufferincountyrealestateguide.wordpress/ The archeological record in Dufferin County dates Indigenous occupation of the area to the Early Paleo-Indian time period from 9000 to 8400 B.C. What eventually became Orangeville and Dufferin County, was historically the traditional territory of the Tionontati or Petún (Tobaco) People. The Petun occupied from eight to ten villages located below the Niagara Escarpment along the southwest margin of Georgian Bay.Although described in the Encyclopædia Britannica as living in the mountains south of Nottawasaga Bay, in what are now Grey and Simcoe counties, according to Sawdens A History of Dufferin County, the Petún also lived farther South at the source of the Grand River in Dufferin County. The Petún were decimated by European diseases in 1630s, going from a population of approximately 8000 to 3000, and were subsequently attacked by the Iroquois in December of 1649 further reducing their numbers to less than 1000, they then fled along with other Huron peoples into the United States, while other Petún sought refuge with their French allies and settled in Quebec. This Iroqouis attack was not exclusive to the Petún, but was a part of the Beaver Wars, in which the Iroquois sought to expand their territory and monopolize the fur trade, the trade between European markets, and the trade between tribes of the Great Lakes region. After the decimation and dispersal of the Huron, Petún, and Neutral people of Southern Ontario, Algonkonian peoples from Northern Ontario moved into the area at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century, while members of the Three Fires Confederacy (Chippewa, Odawa, Potawatomi) moved into Southern Ontario from Ohio and Michigan in the Late 1700s. During the pre-confederation Treaty era, Anishinaabe or Chippewa First Nations signed Treaty #18 on Oct 17th, 1818, which included the Dufferin County area.Today, the descendants of Petún call themselves Wyandotte, and despite the 350 years since their displacement from Southern Ontario, and despite the heteroglot and diasporic nature of their contemporary communities (located in Oklahoma, Michigan, Kansas, and Quebec), they continue to recognize their shared history and are united through a modern day Wyandotte Confederacy. The first patent of land was issued to Ezekiel Robinson, a land surveyor, on August 7, 1820. This was followed by land issued to Alan Robinet in 1822. In 1863, Orangeville was named after Orange Lawrence, a businessman born in Connecticut in 1796 who owned several mills in the village. As a young man, he moved to Canada and settled in Halton County. During Mackenzies rebellion in 1837, he was a captain in the militia. Lawrence purchased the land that became Orangeville from Robert Hughson. Orange Lawrence committed suicide December 15, 1861. In 1873, the Act of Incorporation was passed and Orangeville was given town status on January 1, 1874. The public library, located at Broadway and Mill Street, was completed in 1908. Andrew Carnegie, well-known businessman and philanthropist, provided financial assistance for its construction
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