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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.
By September 1938, the Mining Corporation of Canada staked an additional 42 claims. The discovery lead to revelation of an ore body that stretched 700 feet in length and varied in width up to 33 feet. [3] The Jerome Gold Mine was operated by the Mining Corporation of Canada and produced 62,000 ounces of gold between 1939 and 1945. [4]
Gagnon, Quebec, an iron mining company town of Québec Cartier Mining Company, abandoned in 1985.. This is a list of current and former company towns in Canada.True company towns are those "closed communities owned and administered by the industrial employer". [1]
Further parcels of land on the site were placed for sale by the provincial government in 2021, with community groups again organizing to oppose the sale. [21] Several community reunions were held in the 1990s and 2000s. [3] An Ontario Heritage Trust plaque was unveiled at the site on August 6, 2006. [5]
c. 1727 (abandoned) Baby Point, east side of Humber River Fort Toronto (Fort Portneuf) [1] 1750 c. 1751 (superseded by Fort Rouillé) East of Humber River, near High Park's Grenadier Pond Fort Rouillé [1] 1751 1759 Exhibition Place (outlines of fort are marked) Rousseau House and Trading Post c. 1780 c. 1790s (abandoned)
Rainbow Falls Provincial Park is a recreation-class provincial park within the Ontario Parks system. This 575-hectare (1,421-acre) park consists of two non-contiguous parts: [5] Whitesand Lake campground in the main park, and the historic Rossport Campground, east of the fishing community of Rossport, Ontario, which provides campsites along the rough and rocky shorelines of Lake Superior.
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 ...
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