The ENTIRE History Of Canadian Ghost Towns (400+ Years in 60 Minutes)

Описание: The complete history of Canadian ghost towns from the 1500s to today. Discover hundreds of abandoned towns across Canada that once had thousands of residents but now sit empty and forgotten.

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This video covers the entire timeline of Canadian ghost towns including abandoned mining towns, drowned towns flooded for hydroelectric dams, railway ghost towns, coal mining communities, northern ghost towns in Yukon and Northwest Territories, logging camps in British Columbia, prairie grain elevator towns, and climate-threatened communities facing extinction today.
Learn about famous ghost towns like Barkerville BC, Anyox, Kitsault, Frank Alberta (Frank Slide), Val Jalbert Quebec, Uranium City Saskatchewan, Port Radium, Ocean Falls, Cassiar, Africville Nova Scotia, and hundreds more abandoned places across Canadian history.
We explore why these towns died - gold rush boom and bust cycles, mine disasters and closures, railway route changes, coal industry collapse, pulp mill shutdowns, company town abandonment, government relocation programs, intentional flooding for dams, environmental disasters, forest fires, and economic collapse.

Discover the dark history of company towns where corporations controlled everything, the tragedy of drowned towns like those flooded for the St Lawrence Seaway, toxic ghost towns with contaminated soil, and the ongoing creation of new ghost towns today due to climate change and economic shifts.

This is the untold story of Canada's forgotten communities - the shadow history of Canadian nation building through resource extraction.

From Newfoundland outports to BC mining towns to Arctic settlements, this documentary covers 400+ years of abandoned Canadian towns.

Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction: The Heavy Silence of Ghost Towns
1:55 – Early Failures: The First European Settlements
3:44 – The Gold Rush: Explosive Growth and Instant Collapse
7:30 – Railway Towns: Communities at the Mercy of Tracks
9:48 – Coal Towns: Corporate Fiefdoms and Economic Death
12:52 – Northern Mining: Uranium and Atomic Legacies
17:03 – Drowned Towns: Submerged for Infrastructure
20:10 – Natural Disasters and Toxic Erasure
24:49 – Prairie Towns and Technological Obsolescence
29:41 – Africville: A Community Erased by Systemic Policy
31:30 – Company Towns and the Resource Extraction Cycle
36:07 – Kitsault: The Instant, Modern Ghost Town
43:40 – Newfoundland: Resettlement and the Death of Outports
46:50 – Modern Ghosts and the Threat of Climate Change
49:27 – The Legacy: Canada's Shadow History

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