The Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a grand château-style hotel built in 1913 by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The hotel's most famous haunting centres on Room 202, where a woman reportedly committed suicide after learning of her husband's death in an accident. Since then, guests staying in Room 202 have reported blood dripping from the walls, the bed shaking, the bathroom faucet turning on by itself, and the apparition of a woman in a white gown standing at the foot of the bed. Staff members avoid entering the room after dark, and some guests who have requested the haunted room have asked to be moved in the middle of the night. Beyond Room 202, the hotel's elegant corridors and ballroom have produced their own ghost stories — phantom dancers in the ballroom, the sound of a jazz band playing in the lounge after hours, and a man in formal evening wear who walks through the lobby and disappears through a wall. The Fort Garry Hotel's imposing limestone exterior and its location overlooking the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers — a site of profound historical significance for the Métis, fur traders, and settlers who shaped Manitoba — give it a grandeur tinged with the weight of prairie history.
