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Canada, like a haunted house, is a contested space. In haunted house narratives, colonizers attempt to subdue the wild, domesticate and occupy the uninhabitable and usurp ownership of territory in question. Boundaries are blurred between wilderness and civilization, thing and being, past, present and future. Repressed traumatic memories, hidden truths, and buried bones resurface to the horror of the protagonist and delight of the audience. The haunted house, inextricably bound with Gothic sensibilities, stands in opposition to modernity. The ninth annual conference took place at Carleton University, Ottawa, under the theme of “Haunted Canada". Scholars of Canadian Studies and other disciplines, from Carleton University, Trent University and beyond, presented and discussed aspects of Canada as a haunted cultural landscape, taking a broad interpretation of ‘haunting.’ It included the ways the invisible – people, events, places — are rendered visible (and vice-versa), aspects of the sublime, myth, folklore and superstition.