List of ghost towns in British Columbia

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Template:Short description 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 Regional district Location (BCGNIS) Events/Activity Company town Peak population & era Latest population Lifespan
Aleza Lake Robson Valley, British Columbia Fraser-Fort George Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Railway station 200 7 1914–1999
Alice Arm Alice Arm, Observatory Inlet North Coast Kitimat–Stikine Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Base for mining operations up the Kitsault River to the Cambria Icefield
Allenby Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) copper mining; see Copper Mountain
Alta Lake now part of Whistler Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Alvin Pitt Lake Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Anaconda Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) copper mining & smelter Anaconda Copper 1894-1924(?)
Antler Creek Antler Cariboo Cariboo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) (location of creek mouth, may be incorrect for settlement) gold
Anyox North Coast (Observatory Inlet) Kitimat–Stikine Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) mining & smelter Granby Mining & Smelter Co. 10
Arrowhead Upper Arrow Lake Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Bamberton Vancouver Island Cowichan Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cement plant BC Cement Company 1912–1980
Barkerville Cariboo Cariboo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 16,000 100 (staff)
Barkley Valley Cayoosh Range, Lillooet Country Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Barkley Valley Mines, Ltd - gold/silver 0
Barnet Burnaby (Burrard Inlet) Metro Vancouver Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Baynes Lake East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) sawmill & railway Adolph Lumber Company 280
Bennett Bennett Lake, Bennett Lake City Klondike Gold Rush Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Big Bar Sixty Mile, Big Bar Ferry Fraser Canyon Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) (record is for Big Bar Creek) 2,000 50 (IR)
Big Bend Columbia Columbia-Shuswap Big Bend Gold Rush 0
Birmingham Prince George Fraser-Fort George Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction/realty promotion 0
Blackfoot Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Similkameen Gold Rush 0
Blakeburn Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Coal Mining Coalmont Collieries (1927–1940) 250 (ca1932) 0
Boothroyd Boothroyd, Canyon Alpine Fraser Canyon Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) CPR
Boston Bar Quayome Fraser Canyon Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) CPR
Boundary Falls Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) smelter & railway 0
Bullion Cariboo Cariboo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 0
Bralorne Bridge River Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) gold mining 8,000 300
Bradian Bralorne Third Townsite Bridge River Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 2,000 20
Brexton Bridge River Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 3,000 20
Bridge River Six Mile, Lower Fountains, Lower Fountain Lillooet Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 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 Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (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 Britannia Mine Museum)
Brooklyn Boundary Kootenay Boundary 0
Butedale Central Coast Central Coast Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 2,000 10
Camborne Upper Arrow Lake Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Camerontown Cameronton Cariboo Cariboo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Camp McKinney Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Cape Scott Vancouver Island Mount Waddington Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) religious colony (Danes) 500 10
Carmi Okanagan Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Cascade City Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Cassiar Cassiar Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cassiar Gold Rush and later mining 1,500 0 1952-1992
Cassidy Vancouver Island Nanaimo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) coal mining 976
Caycuse Vancouver Island Cowichan Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) logging, sawmill & railway British Columbia Forest Products 400+ 52
Centreville Cassiar Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Cherryville Okanagan (northern Monashees) North Okanagan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 1000
Circle City Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Clayburn Abbotsford Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) clay mining/brickery 0
Coal Creek East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Coalmont Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Coal Mining Columbia Coal & Coke (est.1911) 400 (c. 1926) 80
Cody Slocan Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Columbia Boundary Kootenay Boundary (BCGNIS) 0
Comaplix Upper Arrow Lake Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Copper Mountain Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Corbin East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Coryell Gladstone Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Burnt Basin Gold Rush 0
Craigellachie Eagle Pass Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Deadwood Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Dease Lake Dease Lake Post Cassiar-|Stikine Kitimat–Stikine Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cassiar Gold Rush; seat of Cassiar Mining District 500
Derby Old Fort Langley Fraser Valley Metro Vancouver founding of Colony of British Columbia-Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 40 (now rural area in Langley)
Discovery Cassiar Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Donald Revelstoke Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Duncan City Howser Kootenay Lake Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Dunkeld Manson Creek Omineca Bulkley-Nechako (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Eagle Pass Landing Shuswap Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) (record is for Eagle Pass) CPR construction near today's Sicamous
East New Hazelton Hazelton area Kitimat–Stikine Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) (record is for Hazelton) Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction/realty promotion 0
East Princeton Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen 0
Eholt Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) railway 0
Emory City Emory, Emory Bar Fraser Canyon Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush & CPR construction 1858–1885
Fairview Okanagan Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Ferguson Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Field Kicking Horse River Valley, Yoho National Park Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Railway construction, mining 3,000 170
Fisherville Wild Horse, Kootenai, Kootenay, Kootenais East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Wild Horse Creek Gold Rush 1000 0 1863–1880
Fort Berens Lillooet Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) fur trade, gold rush 0 never finished construction; adjacent to Parsonville and Marysville
Fort Fraser Nechako (New Caledonia) Bulkley-Nechako Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Keremeos Fort Similkameen Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Kilmaurs Fort Babine, Babine Babine Lake (New Caledonia) Bulkley-Nechako Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Fort Kootenay East Kootenay East Kootenay 0
Fort Rupert Vancouver Island Mount Waddington Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) coal mining 0
Fort Shepherd Fort Sheppard, Sheppard West Kootenay Kootenay-Boundary fur trade 0
Fort Steele East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Wild Horse Creek War (see Fisherville) staff
Fountain Upper Fountains, The Fountain, Fountain Flats Lillooet Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 300
Freeport Burns Lake area Bulkley-Nechako Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction/realty promotion 0
Galena Bay Galena Upper Arrow Lake Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Garibaldi Cheakamus River Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS railway lodge, ski cabins (see The Barrier)
Gerrard Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Germansen's Landing Germansen Creek Omineca Country Bulkley-Nechako Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Gladstone Coryell Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Burnt Basin Gold Rush 0
Gold Bridge Bridge River Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 3,000 300
Gold Hill Kootenay Lake Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Goldfields Upper Arrow Lake Columbia-Shuswap
Granite Creek Granite City, Granite Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Tulameen Gold Rush 2000 (c. 1886) 0
Greenwood Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) copper/galena mining & smelting 8,000 500 1897–present
Green River Soo Valley now part of Whistler Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) mill camp, later hippie/skier squat BCR/PGE station was
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Grouse Creek Cariboo Cariboo Grouse Creek War
Harewood mid-Vancouver Island Nanaimo
Harrison Mills Carnarvon Fraser Valley Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) sawmill & railway 3,000 30
Hedley Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) gold mining 300
Hendrix Lake Cariboo Cariboo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (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 Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 0
Hogem Old Hogem Omineca Bulkley-Nechako Omineca Gold Rush
Holberg Vancouver Island Mount Waddington Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) religious colony (Danes); CFB Holberg (DEW Line) 500 10
Howellton Omineca Country Bulkley-Nechako Omineca Gold Rush
Illecillewaet Revelstoke Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) CPR construction
Ioco Port Moody Metro Vancouver Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Oil refinery Imperial Oil 500–1,000 9 1920–?
Iron Bay Indian Arm Lower Mainland Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Quarrying, Logging
Kansas Cariboo Cariboo
Keefers Keefer, Keefer's Fraser Canyon Fraser Valley near North Bend railway (CPR?)
Keithley Creek Cariboo Cariboo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 40
Keremeos Centre Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) (record is for Keremeos) 0
Kerr Creek Similkameen Yale-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Kitsault North Coast (Observatory Inlet) Kitimat–Stikine Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Molybdenum mining & processing. Amax of Canada Ltd. 1200 1978–1983
Laketon Cassiar District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Lardeau City Upper Arrow Lake Columbia-Shuswap
Leadville Summit City Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen 0
Leechtown Vancouver Island Capital Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Lemon Creek Slocan Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Mining, Japanese internment
Lumberton East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
McDame Fort McDame, McDame Post Cassiar Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cassiar Gold Rush
McGillivray Falls Lillooet Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) railway resort
Manson Creek Omineca Bulkley-Nechako Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Omineca Gold Rush
Mica Columbia Columbia-Shuswap Big Bend Gold Rush 0
Michel East Kootenay East Kootenay CNP Coal CPR 1200 0 1898–1970
Minto City Bridge River Squamish-Lillooet 2,500 0
Monashee Townsite Okanagan 0
Morrissey East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Morrissey Mines East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Moyie City East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 450
Natal East Kootenay Sparwood (As of 1966)
Nashton Zwicky Kootenay Lake Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
New Denver Slocan Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
New Hogem Hogem; see also Old Hogem Omineca Country Bulkley-Nechako Omineca Gold Rush
Niagara Boundary Country Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
North Bend Boston Bar (Name moved across the river when this community was renamed.) Fraser Canyon Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) CPR
Ocean Falls Central Coast Central Coast Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 50
Okanagan Mission Okanagan Central Okanagan Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) (now part of Greater Kelowna)
Olalla Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Omineca City Omineca Bulkley-Nechako Omineca Gold Rush
Parkhurst Ghost Town Parkhurst Whistler Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Logging outpost Barr Brothers Logging Company[1] 70 (c.1930)[2] 0 1923–1966
Parsonville Parsonsville Lillooet Squamish-Lillooet Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 0
Pemberton Meadows Lillooet Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Phoenix Greenwood Camp Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Copper mining Granby Co. 4,000 (1919?) 0 1891–1951
Pinchi Lake Omineca Bulkley-Nechako Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Mercury mining Tech Resources (formally Cominco Ltd.)[3] 0 1940–1944, 1968–1975
Poplar Creek Kootenay Lake Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Port Douglas Lillooet River-Harrison Lake Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Fraser Canyon Gold Rush 30 (Xa'xtsa people)
Port Essington North Coast North Coast Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Porter Landing Cassiar District Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Quesnel Forks Cariboo Cariboo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush
Red Gap Vancouver Island Nanaimo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Straits Lumber Co 0 1912–1942 (some milling to 1950)
Retallack Whitewater, White Water Slocan Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Richfield Cariboo Cariboo Cariboo Gold Rush
Rock Creek Boundary Kootenay Boundary Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 500 (area)
Sandon Slocan Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 10(area)
Shalalth Bridge River Seton Lake, Bridge River Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 5000 700
Similkameen City Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen 0
Sointula Malcolm Island (Queen Charlotte Strait) Mount Waddington Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Fabian/socialist colony (Finns) 800
Soo Valley Green River now part of Whistler Squamish-Lillooet Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Spences Bridge Thompson Canyon Thompson-Nicola Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cariboo Road, CPR
Stanley Cariboo Cariboo Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Cariboo Gold Rush 1500 (in 1900) 0 (?)
Stave Falls Stave Gardens Lower Mainland Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) BCER 2-3,000 500 (area)
Steamboat Silverhope Creek, Hope area, Silver Skagit Rd. Fraser Valley small mining town that sprung up during the Skagit Gold Rush 0
Steamboat Mountain Silverhope Creek, Hope area, Silver Skagit Rd. Fraser Valley small mining town that sprung up during the Skagit Gold Rush 0
Steamboat City Silverhope Creek, Hope area, Silver Skagit Rd. Fraser Valley small mining town that sprung up during the Skagit Gold Rush 0
Tashme Hope-Princeton Highway Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Japanese-Canadian internment camp 0
Tasu Tassoo, Old Tassoo, Tasu Sound Moresby Island, Haida Gwaii North Coast Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) gold mine & camp various owners, most lately WesFrob Mines, a subsidiary of Falconbridge 0
Tête Jaune Cache Robson Valley Fraser-Fort George Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Grand Trunk Pacific Railway construction
Three Forks Slocan Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) Mining 1892–~1920
Heritage Ghost Town Three Valley Gap Eagle Pass Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". Gold mine[4] ~1886–?[5]
Tipella City Tipella Harrison Lake Fraser Valley Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) real estate promotion/townsite
Tranquille Sanatorium Padova City, Tranquille Kamloops Thompson-Nicola Tuberculosis Sanatoria 1907–1983
Trout Lake City Trout Lake Upper Arrow Lake-Kootenay Lake Columbia-Shuswap Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Tulameen Otter Flat Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)
Upper Keremeos Similkameen Okanagan-Similkameen 0
Volcanic City Boundary Kootenay Boundary 1 0
Waldo East Kootenay East Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 0
Walhachin Thompson Thompson-Nicola Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS) 150
Waterloo West Kootenay Central Kootenay after abandonment, location of ferry operated by Doukhobor community 150
Zincton Slocan Central Kootenay Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (BCGNIS)

See also

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References

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  • 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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