List of ghost towns in British Columbia

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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.

Ghost towns Alternate Name(s) Locality/Region Location (BCGNIS) Events/Activity Company town Peak population & era Today's population Lifespan
Aleza Lake Upper Fraser, British Columbia Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Railway station 1914–1999
Alice Arm Alice Arm, Observatory Inlet North Coast Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Base for mining operations up the Kitsault River to the Cambria Icefield
Allenby Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) copper mining; see Copper Mountain
Alta Lake now part of Whistler Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Alvin Pitt Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Anaconda Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) copper mining & smelter Anaconda Copper 1894-1924(?)
Antler Creek Antler Cariboo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) (location of creek mouth, may be incorrect for settlement) gold
Anyox North Coast (Observatory Inlet) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) mining & smelter Granby Mining & Smelter Co. 10
Arrowhead Upper Arrow Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Bamberton Vancouver Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cement plant BC Cement Company 1912–1980
Barkerville Cariboo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 16,000 100 (staff)
Barkley Valley Cayoosh Range, Lillooet Country Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Barkley Valley Mines, Ltd - gold/silver 0
Barnet Burnaby (Burrard Inlet) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Baynes Lake East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) sawmill & railway Adolph Lumber Company 280
Bennett Bennett Lake, Bennett Lake City Klondike Gold Rush Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Big Bar Sixty Mile, Big Bar Ferry Fraser Canyon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 2,000 50 (IR)
Big Bend Columbia Big Bend Gold Rush 0
Birmingham Prince George Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction/realty promotion 0
Blackfoot Similkameen Similkameen Gold Rush 0
Blakeburn Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Coal Mining Coalmont Collieries (1927–1940) 250 (ca1932) 0
Boothroyd's Boothroyd, Canyon Alpine Fraser Canyon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) CPR
Boston Bar Quayome Fraser Canyon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) CPR
Boundary Falls Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. smelter & railway 0
Bullion Cariboo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 0
Bralorne Bridge River Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. gold mining 8,000 300
Bradian Bralorne Third Townsite Bridge River Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 2,000 20
Brexton Bridge River Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 3,000 20
Bridge River Six Mile, Lower Fountains, Lower Fountain Lillooet Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 3,000 50 (IR)
Britannia Beach Britannia; there were two towns, one called Mount Sheer or The Townsite on the mountain, and The Beach at sea level Howe Sound Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) copper mining (hard rock)and milling 1904-1959 Britannia Mining & Smelting Company; 1959-1962 Howe Sound Company; 1962-1974 Anaconda several thousands in the 1940s and 1950s approx. 300 1904-1974 (now site of BC Mine Museum)
Brooklyn Boundary 0
Butedale Central Coast Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 2,000 10
Camborne Upper Arrow Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Camerontown Cameronton Cariboo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Camp McKinney Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 0
Cape Scott Vancouver Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) religious colony (Danes) 500 10
Cassidy Vancouver Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) coal mining 976
Carmi Okanagan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Cascade City Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Cassiar Cassiar Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cassiar Gold Rush and later mining
Caycuse Vancouver Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) logging, sawmill & railway British Columbia Forest Products 400+ 52
Centreville Cassiar Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Cherryville Okanagan (northern Monashees) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 1000
Circle City Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Clayburn Abbotsford Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) clay mining/brickery 0
Coal Creek East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Coalmont Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Coal Mining Columbia Coal & Coke (est.1911) 400 (c. 1926) 80
Cody Slocan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Columbia Boundary (BCGNIS) 0
Comaplix Upper Arrow Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Copper Mountain Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Corbin East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Coryell Gladstone Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Burnt Basin Gold Rush 0
Craigellachie Eagle Pass Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Deadwood Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Dease Lake Dease Lake Post Cassiar-|Stikine Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cassiar Gold Rush; seat of Cassiar Mining District 500
Derby Old Fort Langley Fraser Valley founding of Colony of British Columbia-Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 40 (now rural area in Langley)
Discovery Cassiar Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Donald Revelstoke Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Duncan City Howser Kootenay Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Dunkeld Manson Creek Omineca (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Eagle Pass Landing Shuswap Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) CPR construction near today's Sicamous
East New Hazelton Hazelton area Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) (record is for Hazelton) Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction/realty promotion 0
East Princeton Similkameen 0
Eholt Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) railway 0
Emory City Emory, Emory Bar Fraser Canyon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Fraser Canyon Gold Rush & CPR construction 1858–1885
Fairview Okanagan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Ferguson Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Fisherville Wild Horse, Kootenai, Kootenay, Kootenais East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Wild Horse Creek Gold Rush 1000 0 1863–1880
Fort Berens Lillooet Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) fur trade, gold rush 0 never finished construction; adjacent to Parsonville and Marysville
Fort Fraser Nechako (New Caledonia) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Keremeos Fort Similkameen Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Kilmaurs Fort Babine, Babine Babine Lake (New Caledonia) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Kootenay East Kootenay 0
Fort Rupert Vancouver Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) coal mining 0
Fort Shepherd Fort Sheppard, Sheppard West Kootenay fur trade 0
Fort Steele East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Wild Horse Creek War (see Fisherville) staff
Fountain Upper Fountains, The Fountain, Fountain Flats Lillooet Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 300
Freeport Burns Lake area Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction/realty promotion 0
Galena Bay Galena Upper Arrow Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Garibaldi Cheakamus River Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS railway lodge, ski cabins (see The Barrier)
Gerrard Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Germansen's Landing Germansen Creek Omineca Country Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Gladstone Coryell Boundary Burnt Basin Gold Rush Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Gold Bridge Bridge River Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 3,000 300
Gold Hill Kootenay Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Goldfields Upper Arrow Lake
Granite Creek Granite City, Granite Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Tulameen Gold Rush 2000 (c. 1886) 0
Greenwood Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) copper/galena mining & smelting 8,000 500 1897–present
Green River Soo Valley now part of Whistler Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) mill camp, later hippie/skier squat BCR/PGE station was Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Grouse Creek Cariboo Grouse Creek War
Harewood mid-Vancouver Island (Nanaimo)
Harrison Mills Carnarvon Fraser Valley Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) sawmill & railway 3,000 30
Hedley Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) gold mining 300
Hendrix Lake Cariboo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Boss Mountain Mine (molybdenum) Noranda (mining company) 300-500 (late 60's) 6 (approx) 1965-1972 (now primarily a cottage community)
Hill's Bar Fraser Canyon, 10 mi. south of Yale Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 0
Hogem Old Hogem Omineca Omineca Gold Rush
Holberg Vancouver Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) religious colony (Danes); CFB Holberg (DEW Line) 500 10
Howellton Omineca Country Omineca Gold Rush
Illecillewaet Revelstoke Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Kansas Cariboo
Keefers Keefer, Keefer's Fraser Canyon near North Bend railway (CPR?)
Keithley Creek Cariboo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 40
Keremeos Centre Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS link is to Keremeos 0
Kitsault North Coast (Observatory Inlet) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Molybdenum mining & processing. Amax of Canada Ltd. 1200 1978–1983
Laketon Cassiar District Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Lardeau City Upper Arrow Lake
Leadville Summit City Similkameen 0
Leechtown Vancouver Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Lemon Creek Slocan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Mining, Japanese internment
Lumberton East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
McDame Fort McDame, McDame Post Cassiar Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cassiar Gold Rush
McGillivray Falls Lillooet Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) railway resort
Manson Creek Omineca Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Mica Columbia Big Bend Gold Rush 0
Michel East Kootenay CNP Coal CPR 1200 0 1898–1970
Minto City Bridge River 2,500 0
Monashee Townsite Okanagan 0
Morrissey East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Morrissey Mines East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Moyie City East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 450
Nashton Zwicky Kootenay Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
New Denver Slocan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
New Hogem Hogem; see also Old Hogem Omineca Country Omineca Gold Rush
Niagara Boundary Country Okanagan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
North Bend Boston Bar (Name moved across the river when this community was renamed.) Fraser Canyon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) CPR
Ocean Falls Central Coast Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 50
Okanagan Mission Okanagan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) (now part of Greater Kelowna)
Olalla Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Omineca City Omineca Omineca Gold Rush
Parsonville Parsonsville Lillooet Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 0
Pemberton Meadows Lillooet Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Phoenix Greenwood Camp Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Copper mining Granby Co. 4,000 (1919?) 0 1891–1951
Pinchi Lake Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Poplar Creek Kootenay Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Port Douglas Lillooet River-Harrison Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 30 (Xa'xtsa people)
Port Essington North Coast Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Porter Landing Cassiar District Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Quesnel Forks Cariboo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush
Red Gap Vancouver Island Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Straits Lumber Co 0 1912-1942 (some milling to 1950)
Retallack Whitewater, White Water Slocan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Richfield Cariboo Cariboo Gold Rush
Rock Creek Boundary Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 500 (area)
Sandon Slocan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 500 (area)
Shalalth Bridge River Seton Lake, Bridge River Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 5000 700
Similkameen City Similkameen 0
Sointula Malcolm Island (Queen Charlotte Strait) Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Fabian/socialist colony (Finns) 800
Soo Valley Green River now part of Whistler Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Spences Bridge Thompson Canyon Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cariboo Road, CPR
Stanley Cariboo Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 1500 (in 1900) 0 (?)
Stave Falls Stave Gardens Lower Mainland Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) BCER 2-3,000 500 (area)
Steamboat Mountain Silverhope Creek, Hope area 0
Tashme Hope-Princeton Highway Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) Japanese-Canadian internment camp 0
Tasu Tassoo, Old Tassoo, Tasu Sound Morseby Island, Queen Charlottes Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) gold mine & camp various owners, most lately WesFrob Mines, a subsidiary of Falconbridge 0
Tête Jaune Cache Robson Valley Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction
Three Forks Slocan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Three Valley Gap Eagle Pass
Tipella City Tipella Harrison Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) real estate promotion/townsite
Trout Lake City Trout Lake Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Tulameen Otter Flat Similkameen Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)
Upper Keremeos Similkameen 0
Volcanic City Boundary 1 0
Waldo East Kootenay Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 0
Walhachin Thompson Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS) 150
Waterloo West Kootenay after abandonment, location of ferry operated by Doukhobor community 150
Zincton Slocan Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (BCGNIS)

See also

References

  • Bruce Ramsey, Ghost Towns of British Columbia, Mitchell Press, Vancouver, 1963, OCLC: 39371
  • T W Paterson, Encyclopedia of ghost towns & mining camps of British Columbia, Stagecoach Pub., Langley, 1979, ISBN
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