Richard Burton Deane was the last North-West Mounted Police superintendent at Fort Calgary, and in 1906 he had this house built because his wife would not live in barracks. He lived in it until 1914, when the Grand Trunk Pacific bought the land under Fort Calgary and pulled most of the fort down for a rail terminal. The house was moved to the southeast corner and used as quarters for station agents for fifteen years, then moved again in 1929, across the Elbow River to Ninth Avenue, where it stands now. That is three moves for one building, and the years in between as a boarding house are where the stories come from: a disconnected telephone that rings, footsteps and voices with nobody in the room, a man with a pipe. It is a restaurant today and a very good one, which means the easiest way into one of the most haunted buildings in Calgary is to book a table.
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