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Sept. 2003 - UPDATE: A reader of the site sent in the following notes on Eaton Hall...
I read with great interest the items on the ghosts of Eaton Hall. Other than a elderly maid, and a couple of servicemen in WWII. No one of significance has died at Eaton hall. All the children lead upstanding and long lives. Lady Eaton died in her home on Dunvegan in Forest Hill in 1971 (just down from the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church.) The funeral for Flora Eaton was held at the church and the funeral home was AW Miles. She is entombed with her husband Sir John and the rest of the Eaton's in Mount Pleasant.
Sir John never saw the present Eaton Hall. The family at one time used another house on the Eaton Hall property for a summer home. Sir John and Lady Eaton at one time lived at Ardwold , which was near Casa Loma. Sir John died in this house in 1922. Lady closed the house and lived in Europe for many years. In 1935 she returned and ordered Ardwold be demolished. A new house was constructed in King which is the current Eaton Hall. Some of the fittings of Ardwold were installed in the Hall. The only building that survives Ardwold are the massive entrance gates and the gate house on Spadina (next door to Spadina House.)
Lady Eaton lead a very peaceful life. I doubt very much if she would return to haunt anyone. Eaton Hall is not air-tight and does have a down daft in the stair case. In renovation of the Hall into a training centre there is now piped in music that is played on occasion this might have been any music one would hear.
The reader went on to say that they had been involved intimately with the hall for many years.
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