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The Canadian province of Ontario has a significant number of ghost towns. These are most numerous in the Central Ontario and Northern Ontario regions, although a smaller number of ghost towns can be found throughout the province.
Moulinette is an underwater ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of Ontario's Lost Villages, which were permanently flooded by the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958. Families and businesses in Moulinette were moved to the new town of Long Sault before the seaway construction commenced. The village was located as a ...
On June 20, 1993, two years after Lemieux was abandoned, heavy rains caused a retrogressive earthflow which destroyed 17 hectares of farmland at the edge of the town site. The scarp retreated 680 m (2,230 ft) from the riverbank in less than an hour and left a crater some 320 meters (1,050 ft) wide and 18 m (59 ft) deep. An estimated 2.8 to 3.5 ...
Ghost towns in Canada by province or territory This is a list of lists of ghost towns in Canada . A ghost town is a town that once had a considerable population, that has since dwindled in numbers causing some or all its business to close, either due to the rerouting of a highway , train tracks being pulled, or exhaustion of some natural resource .
Ghost towns in Northern Ontario (22 P) Pages in category "Ghost towns in Ontario" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
Jackfish is a ghost town in northern Ontario, Canada, located on the north shore of Lake Superior east of Terrace Bay. [1] The last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) track between Montreal and Winnipeg was driven in west of Jackfish on May 16, 1885. [2] [3] [4] Laying one particular mile of railway in this area is said to have cost ...
Aultsville is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of Ontario's Lost Villages, which were permanently flooded by the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958. The town was founded as Charlesville in 1787 by United Empire Loyalists and reached its peak in 1880, when it had 400 residents. It was the second largest town ...
Indiana is a ghost town in Haldimand County, Ontario, CanadaIt was located on the north-east bank of the Grand River, north of Cayuga.The Indiana site was known as 'Grand Rapids' before the first white settlers arrived in the 1830's, a village of members of the Lower Cayuga nation of the Six Nations, who moved from the NY state area after the 1784 Haldimand Tract Proclamation granted Six ...
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