The Main Building, later called Parklane at the Tranquille Sanatorium and Psychiatric Institution.
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July 18, 2025 - 5:00 AM
Get out your holy water and your paranormal activity detectors if you’re going to go ghost hunting at any of these spots in Kamloops and the Okanagan. It isn’t Halloween season but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your fill of spooky history, so read on…if you dare.
Here are the numbers for ghost towns and spooky spots:
360: Beds were in the Kamloops Tranquille Sanitorium, an abandoned psychiatric hospital voted one of the top ten haunted places in Canada by Reader’s Digest.
3: People died in the Fairview Hotel fire in 1902, a turning point for the Okanagan’s most noteworthy ghost town.
125: Years ago the S.S. Ainsworth sunk in Kootenay Lake, killing nine men. Only motivated divers can explore the rare wreck in the Southern Interior.
228: Metre descent in the most popular abandoned mine to walk in the Okanagan, Blue Hawk Mine.
25: Preserved buildings at Three Valley Lake, a ghost town-turned-tourist attraction near Revelstoke.
1,887: Historic mine sites in B.C. You can go check for yourself how many have ghosts in them.
95: Years ago the National Ballroom was built in Vernon, now the Towne Cinema, and now it’s the centre of an urban legend that bootlegger tunnels run under the city.
22: Second World War-era bunkers are scattered around Kamloops.
6: Ghost towns are in the Princeton area, but three are off-limits.
665,000: Tons of ore went to the Allenby mills in 1926, long before it became a ghost town.
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