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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] Other rural communities which did not function strictly in this way but were still dominated by a single industry may also be called company towns and are featured in this list.
The Cape Breton Regional Municipality is a single municipality. This is a list of unincorporated areas within it, some of which are former municipalities, and some of which correspond to census areas.
Distribution of Alberta's 19 cities and 12 other communities eligible for city status. To qualify as a city in Alberta, a sufficient population size (10,000 people or more) must be present and a majority of the buildings must be on parcels of land less than 1,850 square metres (19,900 sq ft). [1]
Salisbury is a town located in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. Previously a village for 57 years from 1966 to 2023, in January 2023 Salisbury was amalgamated with parts of four local service districts (including the rural community of River Glade) to become a new town with the same name. [2] [3]
In January 2013, Western Forest Products announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement for the sale of its former Woodfibre Pulp Mill site for the purchase price of $25.5 million. The site, consisting of 212 acres (86 ha) of industrial waterfront land, is located at the head of Howe Sound, southwest of Squamish, British Columbia.
Sandon was the first fully electrified town in BC. The Silversmith Powerhouse (1897) was the second hydroelectricity plant in Western Canada - after Nelson - and is the oldest continuous producer in Western Canada, with the current equipment - originally a 1905 installation in a City of Vernon plant, and installed at Sandon in 1916.
Incorporated as a town in 1986, this small fishing community is located near the base of the Burin Peninsula on the east side of Fortune Bay approximately 3 km east of Bay L'Argent. The origin of the name is uncertain, perhaps deriving from an early French settler, although it appears on many early maps as Jack (or Jack's) Fontaine.
A "bar" is a gold-bearing sandbar or sandy riverbank, and the one slightly down river and opposite today's town was populated heavily by Americans, who were known in the parlance of the Chinook Jargon as "Boston men" or simply "Bostons". A settlement developed on the east bank of the river to the north of the confluence with Anderson River.