Barkerville: While still a tourist attraction and a living museum, it is a preserved historic town rather than a functioning modern community.
Bradian (or Bradian’s Camp): A former mining town.
Cassiar: A former asbestos mining town.
Coal Creek: A former coal mining town near Fernie.
Copper Mountain: A former company town for a copper mine.
Deadman Creek: A former gold rush settlement.
Eholt: A former railway town.
Farrell Creek: A former oil and gas community.
Kitsault: A modern “ghost town” built for a molybdenum mine that was abandoned.
Marysville: While a small community still exists, the original boomtown is largely a ghost of its former self.
Phoenix: A former copper mining town.
Sandon: A historic mining town, partially restored but largely abandoned.
Walhachin: A former utopian agricultural settlement.
Wigwam: A former logging community.
Alberta
Bankhead: A former coal mining town in Banff National Park.
Bellevue: While a small community remains, much of the original mining town is gone.
Cadomin: A former coal mining town.
Carbon: While a village still exists, the original boom from coal mining is long past.
Coal Branch (various sites): Numerous small mining camps and towns in the Coal Branch region west of Edson, like Mercoal, Mountain Park, Luscar, and Hargwen.
Crerar: A former railway and coal mining community.
Dorothy: A former farming community.
East Coulee: While a small community remains, it’s significantly smaller than its coal mining heyday.
Ghost Pine Creek: A former settlement.
Mineola: A former coal mining settlement.
Nordegg: While still populated, it is much diminished from its coal mining peak.
Retlaw: A former agricultural community.
Rosedale: While a small community remains, it’s significantly smaller than its coal mining heyday.
Shandro: A former Ukrainian settlement.
Wayne: A former coal mining town, now largely a tourist attraction with a few remaining residents.
Saskatchewan
Bents: A former railway and farming community.
Batoche: A historic Métis settlement, now a national historic site.
Bents: A former railway and farming community.
Claybank: Known for its historic brick plant, the community itself has dwindled.
Cramersburg: A former railway and farming community.
Dinsmore: A former railway and farming community.
Eatonia: While a village still exists, it’s much smaller than its peak.
Forget: A former farming community.
Insinger: A former farming community.
Mawer: A former railway and farming community.
Ormiston: A former farming community.
Palmer: A former railway and farming community.
Stornoway: A former farming community.
Valparaiso: A former railway and farming community.
Willows: A former railway and farming community.
Manitoba
Arborg: While a town still exists, it’s much smaller than its peak.
Bannockburn: A former farming community.
Camp Morton: A former internment camp and later a recreational area.
Garson: A former quarry town.
Greenwald: A former farming community.
Magnet: A former railway and farming community.
Narcisse: A former railway and farming community.
Pullman: A former railway and farming community.
Spirit Sands: A former farming community (in what is now Spruce Woods Provincial Park).
Ontario
Balaclava: A former logging and milling community.
Bark Lake: A former logging community.
Boyd’s Mills: A former mill town.
Chelmsford: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its mining heyday.
Crozier: A former farming community.
Decewsville: A former mill and farming community.
Deseronto: While a First Nation community exists, the original boomtown is largely a ghost of its former self.
Douglas: A former farming and logging community.
Foymount: A former radar station.
Griffith: A former logging and mining community.
Holland’s Mills: A former mill town.
Iron Bridge: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its logging and mining heyday.
Lost Village of Coniston: A village that was moved due to mining operations.
Perley: A former logging community.
Silver Islet: A former silver mining community.
Utopia: A former agricultural settlement.
Quebec
Bristol: A former mining town.
Canrobert: A former farming community.
Grand-Mère: While a city exists, its industrial past has largely faded.
Kinnear’s Mills: A former mining and farming community.
Lake St. Francis: Several submerged villages due to dam construction.
McNaughton: A former logging community.
Port-aux-Saumons: A former fishing village.
Rang-Saint-Nicolas: A former farming community.
Saint-Élie-de-Caxton: While a village exists, its past is rich with folklore about ghost stories.
Val-Jalbert: A well-preserved former pulp mill town, now a historic site.
New Brunswick
Albert Mines: A former mining community.
Central Greenwich: A former farming community.
Chipman: While a village exists, its coal mining past has largely diminished.
Doaktown: While a village exists, its logging past has largely diminished.
Elm Hill: A former farming community.
Grand Manan Island (various small settlements): Some smaller, abandoned fishing communities.
Hoyt: A former railway and farming community.
King’s Landing: A living history museum, representing several historic settlements.
Pokemouche: A former fishing and farming community.
Nova Scotia
Ecum Secum: A former logging and fishing community.
Gabarus: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its fishing heyday.
Goldboro: A former gold mining town.
Indian Harbour: A former fishing community.
Canso: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its fishing and rum-running heyday.
Port Bickerton: A former fishing community.
Sherbrooke Village: A living history museum representing a 19th-century gold rush town.
Upper Clements: A former agricultural and milling community.
Westville: While a town exists, its coal mining past has largely diminished.
Prince Edward Island
Fewer traditional “ghost towns” due to its agricultural and fishing focus, but some former settlements have dwindled significantly.
Naufrage: A former fishing community, though a small community still exists.
Rustico (various small settlements): Some smaller, historic fishing and farming communities have faded.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Bell Island (various mine communities): Communities associated with iron ore mining, many now abandoned.
Burnt Islands (some smaller, isolated coves): Some smaller outport communities have been resettled.
Change Islands (some smaller settlements): Some smaller outport communities have dwindled.
Fogo Island (some smaller settlements): Some smaller outport communities have dwindled.
Grand Bruit: A resettled outport community.
Grole: A resettled outport community.
Hare Bay (some smaller, isolated coves): Some smaller outport communities have been resettled.
Little Bay Islands: A recently resettled community.
Mifflin’s Harbour: A resettled outport community.
Petites: A resettled outport community.
Point Riche: A former fishing and whaling station.
Round Harbour: A resettled outport community.
St. Brendan’s: While a community exists, it’s much smaller than its peak.
Turk’s Cove: A resettled outport community.
Yukon
Canyon City: A former gold rush settlement.
Forty Mile: A historic gold rush settlement.
Keno City: While a small community remains, it’s a shadow of its silver mining boom.
Silver City: A former silver mining town.
Star City: A former gold rush settlement.
Northwest Territories
Port Radium: A former uranium mine and community.
Pine Point: A former lead-zinc mining town.
Nunavut
While not traditional “ghost towns” in the same sense as southern Canada, some former DEW Line sites and abandoned mining camps exist.
