List of Ghost towns in Canada
British Columbia
- Barkerville: While still a tourist attraction and a living museum, it is a preserved historic town rather than a functioning modern community.
- Bradian (or Bradian’s Camp): A former mining town.
- Cassiar: A former asbestos mining town.
- Coal Creek: A former coal mining town near Fernie.
- Copper Mountain: A former company town for a copper mine.
- Deadman Creek: A former gold rush settlement.
- Eholt: A former railway town.
- Farrell Creek: A former oil and gas community.
- Kitsault: A modern “ghost town” built for a molybdenum mine that was abandoned.
- Marysville: While a small community still exists, the original boomtown is largely a ghost of its former self.
- Phoenix: A former copper mining town.
- Sandon: A historic mining town, partially restored but largely abandoned.
- Walhachin: A former utopian agricultural settlement.
- Wigwam: A former logging community.
Alberta
- Bankhead: A former coal mining town in Banff National Park.
- Bellevue: While a small community remains, much of the original mining town is gone.
- Cadomin: A former coal mining town.
- Carbon: While a village still exists, the original boom from coal mining is long past.
- Coal Branch (various sites): Numerous small mining camps and towns in the Coal Branch region west of Edson, like Mercoal, Mountain Park, Luscar, and Hargwen.
- Crerar: A former railway and coal mining community.
- Dorothy: A former farming community.
- East Coulee: While a small community remains, it’s significantly smaller than its coal mining heyday.
- Ghost Pine Creek: A former settlement.
- Mineola: A former coal mining settlement.
- Nordegg: While still populated, it is much diminished from its coal mining peak.
- Retlaw: A former agricultural community.
- Rosedale: While a small community remains, it’s significantly smaller than its coal mining heyday.
- Shandro: A former Ukrainian settlement.
- Wayne: A former coal mining town, now largely a tourist attraction with a few remaining residents.
Saskatchewan
- Bents: A former railway and farming community.
- Batoche: A historic Métis settlement, now a national historic site.
- Bents: A former railway and farming community.
- Claybank: Known for its historic brick plant, the community itself has dwindled.
- Cramersburg: A former railway and farming community.
- Dinsmore: A former railway and farming community.
- Eatonia: While a village still exists, it’s much smaller than its peak.
- Forget: A former farming community.
- Insinger: A former farming community.
- Mawer: A former railway and farming community.
- Ormiston: A former farming community.
- Palmer: A former railway and farming community.
- Stornoway: A former farming community.
- Valparaiso: A former railway and farming community.
- Willows: A former railway and farming community.
Manitoba
- Arborg: While a town still exists, it’s much smaller than its peak.
- Bannockburn: A former farming community.
- Camp Morton: A former internment camp and later a recreational area.
- Garson: A former quarry town.
- Greenwald: A former farming community.
- Magnet: A former railway and farming community.
- Narcisse: A former railway and farming community.
- Pullman: A former railway and farming community.
- Spirit Sands: A former farming community (in what is now Spruce Woods Provincial Park).
Ontario
- Balaclava: A former logging and milling community.
- Bark Lake: A former logging community.
- Boyd’s Mills: A former mill town.
- Chelmsford: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its mining heyday.
- Crozier: A former farming community.
- Decewsville: A former mill and farming community.
- Deseronto: While a First Nation community exists, the original boomtown is largely a ghost of its former self.
- Douglas: A former farming and logging community.
- Foymount: A former radar station.
- Griffith: A former logging and mining community.
- Holland’s Mills: A former mill town.
- Iron Bridge: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its logging and mining heyday.
- Lost Village of Coniston: A village that was moved due to mining operations.
- Perley: A former logging community.
- Silver Islet: A former silver mining community.
- Utopia: A former agricultural settlement.
Quebec
- Bristol: A former mining town.
- Canrobert: A former farming community.
- Grand-Mère: While a city exists, its industrial past has largely faded.
- Kinnear’s Mills: A former mining and farming community.
- Lake St. Francis: Several submerged villages due to dam construction.
- McNaughton: A former logging community.
- Port-aux-Saumons: A former fishing village.
- Rang-Saint-Nicolas: A former farming community.
- Saint-Élie-de-Caxton: While a village exists, its past is rich with folklore about ghost stories.
- Val-Jalbert: A well-preserved former pulp mill town, now a historic site.
New Brunswick
- Albert Mines: A former mining community.
- Central Greenwich: A former farming community.
- Chipman: While a village exists, its coal mining past has largely diminished.
- Doaktown: While a village exists, its logging past has largely diminished.
- Elm Hill: A former farming community.
- Grand Manan Island (various small settlements): Some smaller, abandoned fishing communities.
- Hoyt: A former railway and farming community.
- King’s Landing: A living history museum, representing several historic settlements.
- Pokemouche: A former fishing and farming community.
Nova Scotia
- Ecum Secum: A former logging and fishing community.
- Gabarus: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its fishing heyday.
- Goldboro: A former gold mining town.
- Indian Harbour: A former fishing community.
- Canso: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its fishing and rum-running heyday.
- Port Bickerton: A former fishing community.
- Sherbrooke Village: A living history museum representing a 19th-century gold rush town.
- Upper Clements: A former agricultural and milling community.
- Westville: While a town exists, its coal mining past has largely diminished.
Prince Edward Island
- Fewer traditional “ghost towns” due to its agricultural and fishing focus, but some former settlements have dwindled significantly.
- Naufrage: A former fishing community, though a small community still exists.
- Rustico (various small settlements): Some smaller, historic fishing and farming communities have faded.
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Bell Island (various mine communities): Communities associated with iron ore mining, many now abandoned.
- Burnt Islands (some smaller, isolated coves): Some smaller outport communities have been resettled.
- Change Islands (some smaller settlements): Some smaller outport communities have dwindled.
- Fogo Island (some smaller settlements): Some smaller outport communities have dwindled.
- Grand Bruit: A resettled outport community.
- Grole: A resettled outport community.
- Hare Bay (some smaller, isolated coves): Some smaller outport communities have been resettled.
- Little Bay Islands: A recently resettled community.
- Mifflin’s Harbour: A resettled outport community.
- Petites: A resettled outport community.
- Point Riche: A former fishing and whaling station.
- Round Harbour: A resettled outport community.
- St. Brendan’s: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its peak.
- Turk’s Cove: A resettled outport community.
Yukon
- Canyon City: A former gold rush settlement.
- Forty Mile: A historic gold rush settlement.
- Keno City: While a small community remains, it’s a shadow of its silver mining boom.
- Silver City: A former silver mining town.
- Star City: A former gold rush settlement.
Northwest Territories
- Port Radium: A former uranium mine and community.
- Pine Point: A former lead-zinc mining town.
Nunavut
- While not traditional “ghost towns” in the same sense as southern Canada, some former DEW Line sites and abandoned mining camps exist.
- Nanisivik: A former lead-zinc mine and community.