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Spook in the City: Grenadier Pond
Spook in the City takes viewers on a tour of the scary side of Toronto, to the scene of high-profile hauntings. In this short episode, John and I bring you to the haunted shores of High Park's Grenadier Pond and tell you a tale over a hundred years in the making.
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My grandmother who lived right next to High Park, recounted this same story to me, with two significant difference: [1] No mention of hauntings, [2] The Grenadier were not 'chasing Indians', They were doing drill practice. The frozen pond provided a nice large open flat surface to march upon. Normally the pond is safe to walk on in the winter, but the weight of 100+ heavily ladened men marching together was enough to break the ice. And yes, according the the story I was told, most of them drowned.
The part that I find dubious about the story, is that nowhere is there any historical plaque or record of such an event occurring.