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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.
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]
A timber-frame building built for the Puget Sound Agricultural Company; one of the key buildings of Craigflower Farm, one of Western Canada's first farming communities and symbolic of the region's transition from the fur trade to settlement Craigflower Schoolhouse [26] 1855 (completed) 1964 View Royal
The McBarge, officially named the Friendship 500, is a former McDonald's restaurant, built on a 187-foot-long (57 m) [1] barge for Expo '86 in Vancouver, British Columbia Moored on Expo grounds in Vancouver's False Creek , it was the second floating McDonald's location in the world (the first being in St. Louis , Missouri), intended to showcase ...
CN's rail service on Vancouver Island was abandoned in the 1980s and the right of way given to the provincial Ministry of Transportation. Due to the deteriorated structure of the Kinsol Trestle, the bridge was not usable by walkers or bicyclists on the Trans-Canada Trail, and was in danger of being torn down because it posed an environmental ...
Union Bay is an unincorporated community located south of Hart Creek [1] on the east coast of central Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [2] This Comox Valley community on BC Highway 19A is by road about 93 kilometres (58 mi) north of Nanaimo , and 14 kilometres (9 mi) south of Courtenay .
Having yielded eight million tons of coal, final closure came in 1931, [5] but unionization in Vancouver Island mines was not restored until 1938. [12] After 1931, Canadian Collieries leased out small unworked areas around abandoned mines to private contractors. Employing about 35 miners, the Beban mine was one of the larger operations. [13]