Chapter One: The Custom House
1. Alexander Hamilton Wingfield, “The Woman in Black,” in Poems and Songs: In Scotch and English (Hamilton: The “Times” Book and Job Office, 1873), 252.
2. Worker’s Arts and Heritage Centre, “A Brief History of the Custom House in Hamilton,” www.wahc-museum.ca/a-house.php.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Haunted Hamilton, “The Custom House,” www.hauntedhamilton.com/local_customshouse.html.
9. Worker’s Arts and Heritage Centre, “A Brief History.”
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Peter Klaassen, “Local Haunts: The Custom House,” View (2005): 18.
13. Ibid.
14. Wingfield, “The Woman in Black,” 252–53.
15. “Robert Peel,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel.
Chapter Two: The Ghosts of Dundurn Castle
1. Edward Smith, Dundurn Castle: Sir Allan MacNab and His Hamilton Home (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 2007), 55.
2. Bailey Melville, The History of Dundurn Castle and Sir Allan MacNab, (Toronto: W.L. Griffin, 1943), 18.
3. City of Hamilton, “Dundurn Castle,” www.hamilton.ca/NR/exeres/07027F55-5B50-4553-807E-610C99B16EF6,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published.
4. Ibid.
5. Smith, Dundurn Castle, 5.
6. Smith, Dundurn Castle, 6.
7. Ibid., 10.
8. City of Hamilton, “Dundurn Castle.”
9. Ibid.
10. Haunted Hamilton, “Dundurn Castle,” www.haunted hamilton.com/local_dundurn.html.
11. Paul Wilson, “Did Ghostly Guest Crash Wedding?” Hamilton Spectator, August 17, 2000.
12. History to the People, “Canadian Castles Part IV: Dundurn Castle,” http://historytothepeople.ca/2010/10/canadian-castles- part-iv-dundurn-castle-hamilton-ontario.
13. “Dundurn Castle,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundurn_Castle.
14. History to the People, “Canadian Castles Part IV.”
15. “Dundurn Castle,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundurn_Castle.
16. John Robert Columbo, Mysteries of Ontario (Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1999), 106.
17. Smith, Dundurn Castle, 45.
Chapter Three: Bellevue Mansion
1. Daniel Cumerlato, “Beauty’s Gone: The Story of Bellevue,” www.hauntedhamilton.com/disappearinghistory/dh_1_bellevue.html.
2. Nancy DeHart and Carmelina Prete, “Faces & Places,” The Hamilton Spectator, December 2, 1997.
3. Cumerlato, “Beauty’s Gone.”
4. David Cumming, Hamilton’s Heritage Volume 5: Reasons for Designation Under Part IV of the Ontario Heritage Act (Hamilton: City of Hamilton Planning and Development Department, 2004), 83.
5. Ibid.
6. Cumerlato, “Beauty’s Gone.”
7. Ibid.
8. Rick Hughes, “Landmark Bellevue Mansion Headed for Demolition,” Hamilton Spectator, August 23, 2000.
9. Haunted Hamilton, “The Historic Bellevue House,” www.hauntedhamilton.com/local_bellevue_pics.html.
10. Ibid.
11. Paul Wilson, “Bellevue Was a Victim of the Times and the Man” Hamilton Spectator, September 5, 2002.
12. Nancy DeHart, “Bellevue: To Preserve or Destroy,” Hamilton Spectator, December 30, 1997.
Chapter Four: Battlefield House Museum
1. Battlefield House Museum, “The War of 1812 — Niagara