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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 .
Leechtown is at the confluence [1] of the Leech River [2] into the Sooke River [3] in southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The ghost town, off BC Highway 1 is about 59 kilometres (37 mi) by road northwest of Victoria.
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]
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.
Articles about ghost towns: former municipalities that have been abandoned, usually because the economic activity which supported the town has failed, or because of economic decline, natural or human-caused disasters
It was featured by Ghost Adventures and "Knock Knock Ghost". Buck Hill in Round Lake, Ontario. Texas Road in Amherstburg. Weston & Highway 7 in Vaughan. This site is allegedly haunted by a 19th-century little girl who lost her life in a fire. Whitby Junction Station in Whitby. Now an art gallery, it is said to be haunted by the former telegraph ...
Cumberland is an incorporated village municipality east of Perseverance Creek, [1] near the east coast of central Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [2] The Comox Valley community is west of BC Highway 19 and is by road about 105 kilometres (65 mi) northwest of Nanaimo and 10 kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Courtenay .