List of company towns
This is a list of company towns.
See the category Company towns for an unannotated list of articles.
Europe
Belgium
Denmark
France
Ireland
- Rochfortbridge (County Westmeath), built by public company OPW in the 1840s as part of famine relief on the site of an original village and rebuilt 110 years later by Bord na Móna during the 1950s for its employees, the more modern phase being designed by architect Frank Gibney.
Germany
Italy
Transnistria (Moldova)
Netherlands
Norway
Russia
Non-ferrous metal industry (the plants there are mostly owned by Norilsk Nickel):
Iron mining:
Non-metal mineral extraction and processing:
Oil and gas:
Petrochemical industry:
Russian writers and politicians commonly use the expression "градообразуюшее предприятие" (gradoobrazuyushchee predpriyatie, literally 'the enterprise that has created the town') to refer to the industrial facility - these days often part of a larger company such as LUKOIL or Norilsk Nickel - that is the city's main employer and the main source of funding for the city's budget.
United Kingdom
Main article:
Model villageNorth America
Canada
- Anyox, British Columbia, a now-abandoned smelter town on Observatory Inlet, near the mouth of the Nass River.
- Arvida, now in Jonquière borough, Saguenay, Quebec, owned by Alcan
- Batawa, Ontario owned by Bata
- Bralorne, British Columbia, and nearby Pioneer Mine, British Columbia; both famous gold mining towns; Bralorne's third townsite is also known as Bradian
- Bridge River aka Bridge River Townsite, now South Shalalth, a British Columbia model village developed as part of the Bridge River Power Project and now mostly depopulated.
- Britannia Beach, British Columbia - a semi-abandoned copper and gold mine and crushing plant near Squamish
- Camp McKinney - gold, near Rock Creek, British Columbia
- Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador owned wholly by Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation
- Clayburn, British Columbia - brick clay mine and brick kiln
- Copper Mountain, British Columbia - copper, near Princeton, British Columbia, abandoned 1960s
- Espanola, Ontario, until 1958 owned by the paper mill.
- Elsa, Yukon
- Fermont, Quebec, built by the Québec Cartier Mining Company
- Flin Flon, Manitoba (and Saskatchewan), owned by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting (HBMS)
- Fort Vancouver and other former Hudson's Bay Company trading posts-cum-towns in the Pacific Northwest. Others include Colville, Victoria BC, Fort Langley BC, Hope BC and more.
- Fraser Mills, British Columbia, now part of Coquitlam but originally owned by Crown Zellerbach (the company President was the mayor, by default and acclamation). Most workers in Fraser Mills did not live in the "village" (as incorporated) but in nearby Maillardville
- Grand Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador Control relinquished to citizens from Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company in 1961
- Gold River, British Columbia - now incorporated
- Government Cannery, British Columbia
- Harmac, British Columbia - pulp mill, near Nanaimo, British Columbia
- Keno City, Yukon
- Kimberley, British Columbia, now incorporated
- Kitimat, British Columbia, based around an aluminum smelter built by Alcoa's Canadian subsidiary Alcan. Also nearby is Kemano which accompanies the Kemano powerhouse of the Nechako Diversion
- Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador developed by the Iron Ore Company of Canada
- Logan Lake, British Columbia - copper mine
- Nanisivik, Nunavut, built to support a lead-zinc mine and abandoned after the mine's closure in 2002.
- Nitinat, British Columbia, near Youbou, British Columbia - former company town of Crown Zellerbach, a forestry company
- Ocean Falls, British Columbia, a now-abandoned pulp mill town on the central BC Coast
- Port Mellon, British Columbia, a pulp mill and town on the east shore of Howe Sound near the Langdale ferry terminal, which is near Sechelt
- Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Woodfibre, British Columbia a pulp mill town on the east shore of Howe Sound near Squamish
- Walkerville, Ontario a distillery on the south shore of the Detroit River, founded by Hiram Walker
Dominican Republic
- La Romana, primarily owned by the Central Romana Corporation (part of the Fanjul sugar and real estate empire).
Mexico
- Ciudad Pemex, Tabasco buil around a PEMEX plant.
United States
See List of company towns in the United States
Asia
Japan
India
- Kumarapatnam, Karnataka, developed by Grasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group. A small town developed solely due to two large scale units of Grasim Industries(textiles).
- Nagda, Madhya Pradesh, developed by Grasim Industries, Aditya Birla Group. The town economy is mostly dependent on the 4 large scale units of Grasim Industries(textiles).
- Kansbahal, Orissa, developed by Larsen & Toubro Ltd. with the residential colonies, schools, hospital etc. all being established and maintained by L&T's heavy engineering works.
- Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, developed by Tata Group.
- Kailasapuram, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu developed by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited. with the residential colonies, schools, hospital,Stadium,open air theaters etc. all being established and maintained by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.
Indonesia
- Tembagapura, Papua developed by PT Freeport Indonesia (subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan)
Malaysia
- Proton City, Tanjung Malim, Perak developed by Proton Holding Berhad
Australia
- Cabramurra, New South Wales, built as part of the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
- Mount Beauty, Victoria, established by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria to house construction workers from the Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme.
- Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, built for workers at the Alcan Gove Alumina Refinery and mining operation, operated by Rio Tinto Group.
- Yallourn, Victoria, built by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria for workers at the Yallourn Power Station, demolished to enable further coal mining.
Middle East
- Ahmadi, home of Kuwait Oil Company (KOC).
- Awali, home of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO).
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