The Librarian that Never Left: The Haunting of the Great Library

We’ve spoken at length in the past about the Great Library ghost that former Head Librarian George Johnston reportedly saw in the 1960s. In this blog post, I would like to speculate that the studious ghost may in fact be Hugh Nelson Gwynne, Head Librarian of the Great Library from August 1842 to December 1872. During his tenure as Head Librarian, he also acted as the Secretary and Sub-Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada (now Ontario).

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