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Another e-mail, this one is a first-hand account of a building downtown, #1 Toronto Street. I have edited it somewhat...
A few years ago I was at my bank in a modern building and I went to the second floor to use the washroom. This building was downtown and it was a cold winter's day. While I was standing ready to hear nature's call
I got this rather bad impression, as if someone had tapped me on the
shoulder and told me in an excited way that people had been hanged here.
I thought that this was ridiculous since this was a modern building
and I thought no way. As I was walking down the hallway which had
arches a few feet apart from each other I got the impression of a rope
hanging from it, and when I was in the elevator which had mirrors
in it, I couldn't come to look at myself. For the next week, I had
terrible nightmares at home and I was feeling very depressed. I kept
dreaming that there were hanging ropes in the building especially in
the main lobby which had a very high ceiling. Eventually, I found
out by doing some research and asking questions that before the
building was built there was a parking lot there and before that
there was an old jail that went back to the 1850's, and they
used to hang people in the courtyard, which used to be the city
gallows, but the jail was demolished in the 1950's. Whenever I am
downtown I usually avoid that building because of my bad experiences
there.
UPDATE: The following was sent in (thank you!) by one of our readers...
There is now a plaque in the Select Sandwich shop at #1 Toronto street marking it as the place where in 1838 Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews were hung on the gallows there for their participation in the 1837 Rebellion.
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