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This is a list of ghost towns in the Canadian province of British Columbia, including those still partly inhabited or even overtaken by modern towns, as well as those completely abandoned or derelict. Region of location and associated events or enterprises are included.
Clayoquot, Stubbs Island, is virtually a ghost town on the west coast of central Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [1] The former steamboat landing is about 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) by boat northwest of Tofino , which is by road about 172 kilometres (107 mi) west of Parksville at the terminus of BC Highway 4 .
The SS Boscowitz was calling as early as 1902. [4] In 1908, a Union Steamship Company of British Columbia (Union SS) vessel arrived weekly. [5] By the early 1910s, the Boscowitz Steamship Co (which became part of the Union SS) called weekly on the run up the east coast of Vancouver Island and the west coast of the mainland to Prince Rupert. [6]
Anyox, British Columbia. Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada. [1] Today it is a ghost town, abandoned and largely destroyed.It is located on the shores of Granby Bay in coastal Observatory Inlet, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) southeast of (but without a land link to) Stewart, British Columbia, and about 20 kilometres (12 miles), across wilderness east of ...
Red Gap is southeast of Nanoose Bay on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The ghost town on BC Highway 19 is by road about 22 kilometres (14 mi) north of Nanaimo, and 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of Parksville.
Fort Rupert is the site of a former Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) fort on the east coast near the northern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [1] The unincorporated community on Beaver Harbour [2] is about 11 kilometres (7 mi) by road southeast of Port Hardy.
A small Beaux-Arts style building that served as city hall until 1980; a monument to civic pride at the time of its construction, it is the only pre-1930 town hall in Canada constructed entirely of reinforced concrete: Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point [19] 1903 (established) 1995 Oak Bay
Town/City Regional District Type Summary 3 Valley Gap Heritage Ghost Town: Three Valley Gap: Columbia-Shuswap: Open air: website, includes over 25 historic buildings, antique automobile museum, railway roundhouse, mining company, wagon and buggy shop 5th (BC) Artillery Regiment Museum: Victoria: Capital: Military