Canada's Ghost Towns

Canada's Ghost Towns

How many ghost towns are out there in Canada? Probably thousands. Some exist in name only while others continue to support small populations - although mere shadows of their former selves. Other towns, that once supported viable industries, have been reduced to dust and rubble.

Vanished pioneer communities are stretching from Eastern Canada to the far West on Vancouver Island. They include the pioneer coal mining communities, silver mining towns, copper producing communities and gold mining towns. Ghost towns also lay in the far North, the final evidence of past mining dreams.

Today most of these pioneer locales are either long gone without a single trace of their past existence or lie in ruins – through abandonment, vandalism and the rigors of time and the elements. Each can still speak of an important history, either through words or photographs. The ghosts still speak.

There are websites that offer unique opportunities to explore some of Canada's lesser-known pages of history - the ones that just didn't make it. Visit the communities that did not grow, or the ones that tried and failed. All of them deserve to be remembered.

ALBERTA'S GHOST TOWNS
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/alberta/index.html

BRITISH COLUMBIA'S GHOST TOWNS
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/bc/index.html

ONTARIO'S GHOST TOWNS
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/ontario/index.shtml

SASKATCHEWAN'S GHOST TOWNS
http://www.ghosttownpix.com/sask/index.html

GHOST TOWNS PHOTOS
http://ghosttowns.anywhere.ca/directory/index.php