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The Canadian province of Ontario has a significant number of ghost towns. These are most numerous in the Central Ontario and Northern Ontario regions, although a smaller number of ghost towns can be found throughout the province.
On June 20, 1993, two years after Lemieux was abandoned, heavy rains caused a retrogressive earthflow which destroyed 17 hectares of farmland at the edge of the town site. The scarp retreated 680 m (2,230 ft) from the riverbank in less than an hour and left a crater some 320 meters (1,050 ft) wide and 18 m (59 ft) deep.
The village of Moulinette grew surrounding this mill and dam, and Dixson is credited as its founder. [1] Woollen mill and residence of J. & C.H. Wood located in the village of Moulinette Ontario, circa 1879. The community had its own post office by the 1830s, [3] and by 1840, the village boasted 100 residents. [4]
A museum in Ault Park near Long Sault is devoted to the Lost Villages, including several historic buildings salvaged from the communities. Other buildings from the villages were moved to the site of Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg. The flooded area also includes Crysler's Farm, where a major battle was fought during the War of 1812. A ...
In Anishinaabe oral tradition holds that the Iroquois abandoned their villages north of Lake Ontario following a number of decisive battles won by the Anishinaabe in south and central Ontario during the Beaver Wars. In the Great Peace of Montreal, signed in 1701, the Iroquois Confederacy agreed to remain on the south shore of Lake Ontario.
Ghost towns in Canada by province or territory This is a list of lists of ghost towns in Canada . A ghost town is a town that once had a considerable population, that has since dwindled in numbers causing some or all its business to close, either due to the rerouting of a highway , train tracks being pulled, or exhaustion of some natural resource .
Unorganized North Algoma District is an unorganized area in northeastern Ontario, ... Dalton is an abandoned village in the middle of Highway 651 about 27 km or 30 ...
A village is a sub-type of municipalities in the Canadian province of Ontario. A village can have the municipal status of either a single-tier or lower-tier municipality. Ontario has 11 villages [1] that had a cumulative population of 13,695 and an average population of 1,245 in the 2016 Census. [2]