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
Agerton Akerton Lillooet 50°19′N 122°48′W / 50.317, -122.8 (Agerton) (BCGNIS) agrarian colony (Norwegians) 0
Allenby Similkameen 49°25′00″N 120°31′00″W / 49.416667, -120.516667 (Allenby) (BCGNIS) copper mining; see Copper Mountain
Alta Lake now part of Whistler 50°08′30″N 122°57′20″W / 50.14167, -122.95556 (Alta Lake) (BCGNIS)
Alvin Pitt Lake 49°36′N 122°38′W / 49.6, -122.633 (Alvin) (BCGNIS)
Anaconda Boundary 49°05′05″N 118°40′59″W / 49.08472, -118.68306 (Anaconda) (BCGNIS) copper mining & smelter Anaconda Mines
Antler Creek Antler Cariboo 53°16′N 121°20′W / 53.267, -121.333 (Antler Creek) (BCGNIS) (location of creek mouth, may be incorrect for settlement) gold
Anyox North Coast (Observatory Inlet) 50°25′N 129°49′W / 50.417, -129.817 (Anyox) (BCGNIS) mining & smelter Granby Mining & Smelter Co. 10
Arrowhead Upper Arrow Lake 50°42′40″N 117°55′15″W / 50.71111, -117.92083 (Arrowhead) (BCGNIS)
Barkerville Cariboo 53°04′00″N 121°31′00″W / 53.066667, -121.516667 (Barkerville) (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 16,000 100 (staff)
Barnet Burnaby (Burrard Inlet) 49°18′N 122°55′W / 49.3, -122.917 (Barnet) (BCGNIS) 0
Baynes Lake East Kootenay 49°14′N 115°13′W / 49.233, -115.217 (Baynes Lake) (BCGNIS) 0
Bennett Bennett Lake, Bennett Lake City Klondike Gold Rush 59°51′00″N 135°00′00″W / 59.85, -135 (Bennett) 0
Big Bar Sixty Mile, Big Bar Ferry Fraser Canyon 50°50′00″N 122°49′00″W / 50.833333, -122.816667 (Big Bar) 2,000 50 (IR)
Big Bend Columbia Big Bend Gold Rush 0
Birmingham Prince George Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad construction/realty promotion 0
Blackfoot Similkameen Similkameen Gold Rush 0
Blakeburn Similkameen 49°28′54″N 120°44′25″W / 49.48167, -120.74028 (Blakeburn) (BCGNIS) Coal Mining Coalmont Collieries (1927-1940) 250 (ca1932) 0
Boothroyd's Boothroyd, Canyon Alpine Fraser Canyon 49°57′55″N 121°29′00″W / 49.96528, -121.483333 (Boothroyd's) (BCGNIS) CPR
Boston Bar Quayome Fraser Canyon 49°52′N 121°26′W / 49.867, -121.433 (Boston Bar) (BCGNIS) CPR
Boundary Falls Boundary 49°02′00″N 118°42′00″W / 49.033333, -118.7 (Boundary Falls) smelter & railway 0
Bullion Cariboo 52°37′N 121°39′W / 52.617, -121.65 (Bullion) (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 0
Bralorne Bridge River 50°46′00″N 122°49′00″W / 50.766667, -122.816667 (Bralorne) 8,000 300
Bradian Bralorne Third Townsite Bridge River 50°46′10″N 122°47′30″W / 50.76944, -122.79167 (Bradian) (BCGNIS) 2,000 20
Brexton Bridge River 50°50′00″N 122°49′00″W / 50.833333, -122.816667 (Brexton) 3,000 20
Bridge River Six Mile, Lower Fountains, Lower Fountain Lillooet 50°50′00″N 122°49′00″W / 50.833333, -122.816667 (Bridge River) 3,000 50 (IR)
Brittania Beach Brittania Howe Sound 49°38′00″N 123°12′00″W / 49.633333, -123.2 (Britannia Beach) (BCGNIS) copper mining (hard rock)
Brooklyn Boundary 0
Butedale Central Coast 53°09′00″N 128°42′00″W / 53.15, -128.7 (Butedale) (BCGNIS) 2,000 10
Camborne Upper Arrow Lake 50°47′N 117°38′W / 50.783, -117.633 (Camborne) (BCGNIS)
Camerontown Cameronton Cariboo 53°04′30″N 121°30′30″W / 53.075, -121.50833 (Camerontown) (BCGNIS)
Camp McKinney Boundary 49°07′00″N 119°11′00″W / 49.116667, -119.183333 (Camp McKinney) 0
Cape Scott Vancouver Island 50°47′N 128°20′W / 50.783, -128.333 (Cape Scott) (BCGNIS) religious colony (Danes) 500 10
Cassidy Vancouver Island 49°03′N 123°53′W / 49.05, -123.883 (Cassidy) (BCGNIS) coal mining 0
Carmi Okanagan 49°30′N 119°07′W / 49.5, -119.117 (Carmi) (BCGNIS) 0
Cascade City Boundary 49°12′N 118°12′W / 49.2, -118.2 (Cascade City) (BCGNIS) 0
Cassiar Cassiar 49°01′N 118°12′W / 49.017, -118.2 (Cassiar) (BCGNIS) Cassiar Gold Rush and later mining
Cedar City Cariboo
Centreville Cassiar 59°17′N 129°24′W / 59.283, -129.4 (Centreville) (BCGNIS)
Cherryville Okanagan (northern Monashees) 50°14′30″N 118°37′00″W / 50.24167, -118.616667 (Cherryville) (BCGNIS) 0
Circle City Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake 50°45′40″N 117°26′45″W / 50.76111, -117.44583 (Circle City) (BCGNIS)
Clayburn Abbotsford 49°05′N 122°16′W / 49.083, -122.267 (Clayburn) (BCGNIS) clay mining/brickery 0
Coal Creek East Kootenay 49°29′10″N 114°59′00″W / 49.48611, -114.983333 (Coal Creek) (BCGNIS) 0
Coalmont Similkameen 49°30′37″N 120°41′34″W / 49.51028, -120.69278 (Coalmont) Coal Mining Columbia Coal & Coke (est.1911) 400 (ca 1926) 80
Cody Slocan 49°58′N 117°12′W / 49.967, -117.2 (Cody) (BCGNIS)
Columbia Boundary (BCGNIS) 0
Comaplix Upper Arrow Lake 50°45′N 117°46′W / 50.75, -117.767 (Comaplix) (BCGNIS)
Copper Mountain Similkameen 49°19′30″N 120°32′20″W / 49.325, -120.53889 (Copper Mountain) (BCGNIS) 0
Corbin East Kootenay 49°31′N 114°39′W / 49.517, -114.65 (BCGNIS) 0
Coryell Gladstone Boundary 49°09′N 118°06′W / 49.15, -118.1 (Coryell) (BCGNIS) Burnt Basin Gold Rush 0
Craigellachie Eagle Pass 50°58′N 118°43′W / 50.967, -118.717 (Craigellachie) (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Deadwood Boundary 49°06′N 118°42′W / 49.1, -118.7 (Deadwood) (BCGNIS) 0
Dease Lake Dease Lake Post Cassiar-|Stikine 58°26′00″N 130°01′27″W / 58.433333, -130.02417 (Dease Lake) (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 59°36′N 133°33′W / 59.6, -133.55 (Discovery) (BCGNIS)
Donald Revelstoke 51°29′45″N 117°10′25″W / 51.49583, -117.17361 (Donald) (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Duncan City Howser Kootenay Lake 50°18′N 116°57′W / 50.3, -116.95 (BCGNIS)
Dunkeld Omineca (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Eagle Pass Landing Shuswap 50°57′55″N 118°22′10″W / 50.96528, -118.36944 (Eagle Pass Landing) (BCGNIS) CPR construction near today's Sicamous
East New Hazelton Hazelton area 55°15′N 127°40′W / 55.25, -127.667 (East New Hazelton) (BCGNIS) (record is for Hazelton) Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad construction/realty promotion 0
East Princeton Similkameen 0
Eholt Boundary 49°09′30″N 118°32′30″W / 49.15833, -118.54167 (Eholt) (BCGNIS) railway 0
Emory City Emory, Emory Bar Fraser Canyon CPR construction
Fairview Okanagan 49°10′30″N 119°36′00″W / 49.175, -119.6 (Fairview) (BCGNIS) 0
Ferguson Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake 50°41′N 117°29′W / 50.683, -117.483 (Ferguson) (BCGNIS)
Fisherville East Kootenay 49°39′19″N 115°35′39″W / 49.65528, -115.59417 (Fisherville) (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Berens Lillooet 50°41′20″N 121°55′00″W / 50.68889, -121.916667 (BCGNIS) fur trade, gold rush 0 never finished construction; adjacent to Parsonville and Marysville
Fort Fraser Nechako (New Caledonia) 54°04′N 124°33′W / 54.067, -124.55 (Fort Fraser) (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Keremeos Fort Similkameen Similkameen 49°12′N 119°50′W / 49.2, -119.833 (Fort Keremeos) (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Kilmaurs Fort Babine, Babine Babine Lake (New Caledonia) 55°19′05″N 126°37′20″W / 55.31806, -126.62222 (Fort Babine) (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Kootenay East Kootenay 0
Fort Rupert Vancouver Island 50°42′N 127°25′W / 50.7, -127.417 (Fort Rupert) (BCGNIS) coal mining 0
Fort Shepherd Fort Sheppard, Sheppard West Kootenay fur trade 0
Fort Steele East Kootenay 49°37′N 115°38′W / 49.617, -115.633 (Fort Steele) (BCGNIS) Wild Horse Creek War (see Fisherville staff
Fountain Upper Fountains, The Fountain, Fountain Flats Lillooet 50°45′00″N 121°53′00″W / 50.75, -121.883333 (Fountain) (BCGNIS) 300
Freeport Burns Lake area Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad construction/realty promotion 0
Galena Bay Galena Upper Arrow Lake 50°40′N 117°51′W / 50.667, -117.85 (Galena Bay) (BCGNIS)
Garibaldi Cheakamus River 49°58′N 123°09′W / 49.967, -123.15 (Garibaldi) (BCGNIS railway lodge, ski cabins (see The Barrier)
Gerrard Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake 50°31′N 117°17′W / 50.517, -117.283 (Gerrard) (BCGNIS)
Germansen's Landing Germansen Creek Omineca Country 55°47′N 124°42′W / 55.783, -124.7 (Germansen's Landing) (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Gladstone Coryell Boundary Burnt Basin Gold Rush 49°09′N 118°06′W / 49.15, -118.1 (Gladstone) (BCGNIS) 0
Gold Bridge Bridge River 50°51′N 122°50′W / 50.85, -122.833 (Gold Bridge) (BCGNIS) 3,000 300
Gold Hill Kootenay Lake 50°23′N 117°05′W / 50.383, -117.083 (Gold Hill) (BCGNIS)
Goldfields Upper Arrow Lake
Granite City Granite Creek, Granite Similkameen 49°29′00″N 117°22′00″W / 49.483333, -117.366667 (Granite City) (BCGNIS) Tulameen Gold Rush 2000 (ca 1886) 0
Greenwood Boundary 49°06′N 118°41′W / 49.1, -118.683 (Greenwood) (BCGNIS) copper/galena mining & smelting 8,000 500
Green River Soo Valley now part of Whistler 50°13′N 122°53′W / 50.217, -122.883 (Green River) (BCGNIS) mill camp, later hippie/skier squat
Grouse Creek Cariboo Grouse Creek War
Hagensborg Bella Coola 52°23′N 126°33′W / 52.383, -126.55 (Hagensborg) (BCGNIS) religious/teetotal colony (Norwegians) 0
Harewood mid-Vancouver Island (Nanaimo)
Harrison Mills Carnarvon Fraser Valley 49°15′N 121°57′W / 49.25, -121.95 (Harrison Mills) (BCGNIS) sawmill & railway 3,000 30
Hedley Similkameen 49°21′N 120°04′W / 49.35, -120.067 (Hedley) (BCGNIS) 300
Hendrix Lake Cariboo 52°05′50″N 120°47′25″W / 52.09722, -120.79028 (Hendrix Lake) (BCGNIS) Boss Mountain Mine (molybdenum)
Hill's Bar Fraser Canyon, 10 mi. south of Yale 49°32′N 121°26′W / 49.533, -121.433 (Hill's Bar) (BCGNIS) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 0
Hogem Old Hogem Omineca Omineca Gold Rush
Holberg Vancouver Island 50°39′N 128°01′W / 50.65, -128.017 (Holberg) (BCGNIS) religious colony (Danes); CFB Holberg (DEW Line) 500 10
Howellton Omineca Country Omineca Gold Rush
Illecillewaet Revelstoke 51°11′N 117°45′W / 51.183, -117.75 (Illecillewaet) (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Kansas Cariboo
Keithley Creek Cariboo 52°46′N 121°25′W / 52.767, -121.417 (Keithley Creek) (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 40
Keremeos Centre Similkameen 49°12′N 119°50′W / 49.2, -119.833 (Keremeos) (BCGNIS link is to Keremeos 0
Kitsault North Coast 0
Laketon Cassiar District 58°42′N 130°06′W / 58.7, -130.1 (Laketon) (BCGNIS)
Lardeau City Upper Arrow Lake
Leadville Similkameen 0
Leechtown Vancouver Island 48°29′N 123°43′W / 48.483, -123.717 (Leechtown) (BCGNIS) 0
Lemon Creek Slocan 49°42′N 117°28′W / 49.7, -117.467 (Lemon Creek) (BCGNIS) Mining, Japanese internment
Lumberton East Kootenay 49°25′N 115°52′W / 49.417, -115.867 (Lumberton) (BCGNIS) 0
McDame Fort McDame, McDame Post Cassiar 59°11′00″N 129°14′00″W / 59.183333, -129.233333 (McDame) (BCGNIS) Cassiar Gold Rush
McGillivray Falls Lillooet 50°37′N 122°26′W / 50.617, -122.433 (McGillivray Falls) (BCGNIS) railway resort
Manson Creek Manson's Landing Omineca 55°40′N 124°29′W / 55.667, -124.483 (Manson Creek) (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Mica Columbia Big Bend Gold Rush 0
Minto City Bridge River 2,500 0
Monashee Townsite Okanagan 0
Morrissey East Kootenay 49°23′N 115°01′W / 49.383, -115.017 (Morrissey) (BCGNIS) 0
Morrissey Mines East Kootenay 49°21′15″N 115°00′15″W / 49.35417, -115.00417 (Morrissey Mines) (BCGNIS) 0
Moyie City East Kootenay 49°18′N 115°50′W / 49.3, -115.833 (Moyie City) (BCGNIS) 0
Nashton Zwicky Kootenay Lake 49°55′15″N 116°59′10″W / 49.92083, -116.98611 (Nashton) (BCGNIS)
New Denver Slocan 49°59′30″N 117°22′55″W / 49.99167, -117.38194 (New Denver) (BCGNIS)
New Hogem Hogem; see also Old Hogem Omineca Country Omineca Gold Rush
Niagara Boundary Country Okanagan 49°06′N 118°28′W / 49.1, -118.467 (Niagara) (BCGNIS) 0
North Bend Fraser Canyon 49°53′N 123°27′W / 49.883, -123.45 (North Bend) (BCGNIS) CPR
Ocean Falls Central Coast 52°21′20″N 127°41′20″W / 52.35556, -127.68889 (Ocean Falls) (BCGNIS) 50
Okanagan Mission Okanagan 49°49′N 119°29′W / 49.817, -119.483 (Okanagan Mission) (BCGNIS) (now part of Greater Kelowna)
Olalla Similkameen 49°16′N 119°50′W / 49.267, -119.833 (Olalla) (BCGNIS)
Omineca City Omineca Omineca Gold Rush
Parsonville Parsonsville Lillooet Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 0
Pemberton Meadows Lillooet 50°26′30″N 122°55′00″W / 50.44167, -122.916667 (Pemberton Meadows) (BCGNIS) 0
Phoenix Boundary 49°06′N 118°35′W / 49.1, -118.583 (Phoenix) (BCGNIS) 0
Pinchi Lake Boundary 54°38′N 124°25′W / 54.633, -124.417 (Pinchi Lake) (BCGNIS) 0
Poplar Creek Kootenay Lake 50°25′N 117°08′W / 50.417, -117.133 (Poplar Creek) (BCGNIS)
Port Douglas Lillooet River-Harrison Lake 49°46′N 122°10′W / 49.767, -122.167 (Port Douglas) (BCGNIS) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 30 (Xa'xtsa people)
Port Essington North Coast 54°09′N 129°58′W / 54.15, -129.967 (Port Essington) (BCGNIS)
Porter Landing Cassiar District 58°48′N 130°06′W / 58.8, -130.1 (Porter Landing) (BCGNIS)
Quesnel Forks Cariboo 52°40′N 121°40′W / 52.667, -121.667 (Quesnel Forks) (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush
Retallack Whitewater, White Water Slocan 50°03′N 117°08′W / 50.05, -117.133 (Retallack) (BCGNIS)
Richfield Cariboo Cariboo Gold Rush
Rock Creek Boundary 49°03′N 119°00′W / 49.05, -119 (Rock Creek) (BCGNIS) 500 (area)
Sandon Slocan 49°59′N 117°14′W / 49.983, -117.233 (Sandon) (BCGNIS) 500 (area)
Shalalth Bridge River Seton Lake, Bridge River 50°44′N 122°13′W / 50.733, -122.217 (Shalalth) (BCGNIS) 5000 700
Similkameen City Similkameen 0
Sointula Malcolm Island (Queen Charlotte Strait) 50°38′N 127°01′W / 50.633, -127.017 (Sointula) (BCGNIS) Fabian/socialist colony (Finns) 0
Soo Valley Green River now part of Whistler 50°10′N 122°55′W / 50.167, -122.917 (Soo Valley) (BCGNIS)
Spences Bridge Thompson Canyon 50°25′N 121°21′W / 50.417, -121.35 (Spences Bridge) (BCGNIS) Cariboo Road, CPR
Stanley Cariboo 53°02′N 121°43′W / 53.033, -121.717 (Stanley) (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 500 (area)
Stave Falls Stave Gardens Lower Mainland 49°13′N 122°21′W / 49.217, -122.35 (Stave Falls) (BCGNIS) BCER 500 (area)
Steamboat Mountain Silverhope Creek, Hope area 0
Tashme Hope-Princeton Highway 49°16′N 121°14′W / 49.267, -121.233 (Tashme) (BCGNIS) Japanese-Canadian internment camp 0
Tasu Tassoo, Old Tassoo, Tasu Sound Morseby Island, Queen Charlottes 52°46′N 132°2′W / 52.767, -132.033 (Tasu) (BCGNIS) gold mine & camp various owners, most lately WesFrob Mines, a subsudiary of Falconbridge 0
Tête Jaune Cache Robson Valley 52°57′57″N 119°25′48″W / 52.96590, -119.43006 (Tête Jaune Cache) Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad construction
Three Forks Slocan 50°01′00″N 117°16′60″W / 50.01667, -117.28330 (Three Forks) (BCGNIS)
Three Valley Gap Eagle Pass
Tipella City Tipella Harrison Lake 49°44′00″N 122°08′00″W / 49.73335, -122.14999 (Tipella City) (BCGNIS) real estate promotion/townsite
Trout Lake City Trout Lake Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake 50°39′05″N 117°32′25″W / 50.65131, -117.54036 (Trout Lake City) (BCGNIS)
Tulameen Similkameen 49°32′45″N 120°45′35″W / 49.54589, -120.75970 (Tulameen) (BCGNIS)
Upper Keremeos Similkameen 0
Volcanic City Boundary 0
Waldo East Kootenay 49°12′N 115°13′W / 49.2, -115.217 (Waldo) (BCGNIS) 0
Walhachin Thompson 50°45′31″N 121°01′16″W / 50.75864, -121.02118 (Walhachin) (BCGNIS) 150
Waterloo West Kootenay after abandonment, location of ferry operated by Doukhobor community 150
Webster's Corners Maple Ridge 49°13′14″N 122°30′45″W / 49.22047, -122.51241 (Webster's Corners) (BCGNIS) Fabian/socialist colony (Finns) 0
Zincton Slocan 50°01′00″N 117°11′60″W / 50.03333, -117.19996 (Zincton) (BCGNIS)

[edit] 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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