Montreal Haunted Old City Self Guided Ghost Tour

You'll cross Place Vauquelin and spot what's wrong with your photo of the statue. You'll learn that the cells of the city's first British gaol are still under the paving, never filled in.

You'll walk out onto the Champ-de-Mars, beside the uncovered old city wall, and count the differences between a street sign and your photo. You'll learn why this slope was once called the best place in the British Empire to watch a hanging.

You'll stop in Place d'Armes and find what's hidden under the sticker on a nearby statue. You'll learn about Marie-Joseph Angélique, tried in 1734 for a fire that none of the 20 witnesses saw her set.

You'll look up at Notre-Dame Basilica from its steps and find what's missing from your photo of a statue on the front. You'll learn why its Protestant architect converted on his deathbed, and why he is the only person buried inside.

You'll find the corner of Rue Saint-Sulpice and Rue Saint-Paul and solve a riddle about the two saints whose streets cross there. You'll learn about Jeanne Mance, who opened the city's first hospital on this spot with eight beds.

You'll reach Pointe-à-Callière, where the city began, and find what's hidden under the sticker on a sculpture in the square. You'll learn about Montreal's first burial ground, and the frost that kept bringing its dead back up.

You'll finish on Rue Saint-Pierre at the old General Hospital, where the ruins of its first chapel lie open at ground level, and complete a riddle with a word you'll find on site. You'll learn about the fever ships of 1847, and the nuns who took turns nursing the sick until too many of them had died.