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.
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Their formation were common in the early and mid 20th century, with the mining and pulp and paper industries making up the bulk of the towns. Many of these towns were planned communities, with their developers choosing for them unique design plans, such as the Garden city movement in the case of Kapuskasing, Ontario and Kitimat, British Columbia.
Few company towns remain in Canada, as most have been abandoned or since incorporated into a municipality. The only remaining example of a company town today may be Churchill Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador, an unincorporated community home to Nalcor Energy’s Churchill Falls Generating Station.[2]
British Columbia
editManitoba
editCommunity | Founded | Company | Industry | Status | Refs |
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Flin Flon | 1927 | Hudbay | Copper and zinc mining | Now incorporated | |
Sherridon | Sherritt Gordon | Nickel mining | Mostly depopulated | ||
Thompson | 1956 | Inco Ltd. | Nickel mining | Now incorporated | |
Pine Falls | 1926 | Manitoba Pulp & Paper Co. | Pulp & Paper | Now Incorporated |
Newfoundland and Labrador
editCommunity | Founded | Company | Industry | Status | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Churchill Falls | 1961 | Nalcor Energy | Hydropower | Still a company town | [6] |
Grand Falls | 1905 | Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co. | Pulp and paper | Now incorporated | |
Labrador City | 1960s | Iron Ore Company of Canada | Iron mining | Now incorporated | |
Wabush | 1962 | Iron Ore Company of Canada | Iron mining | Now incorporated |
Nova Scotia
editCommunity | Founded | Company | Industry | Status | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Broughton | 1905 | Breton Coal, Iron & Railway Co. | Coal mining | Mostly depopulated | [7] |
New Waterford | Coal mining | Now part of Cape Breton RM |
Nunavut
editCommunity | Founded | Company | Industry | Status | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nanisivik | 1975 | Breakwater Resources | Lead and zinc mining | Abandoned in 2002 |
Ontario
editCommunity | Founded | Company | Industry | Status | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Batawa | 1939 | Bata Shoe Company | Shoemaking | Now part of Quinte West | |
Burchell Lake | 1959 | North Coldsteam Mines Limited | Copper mining | Abandoned in 1967 | |
Creighton | 1900 | Inco Ltd. | Mining | Abandoned in 1988 | |
Dubreuilville | 1961 | Dubreuil Brothers lumber company | Sawmilling | Now incorporated | |
Espanola | 1900s | Mead Corporation | Pulp and paper | Now incorporated | |
Iroquois Falls | 1912 | Abitibi Power and Paper Company | Pulp and paper | Now incorporated | |
Jerome Mine | 1937 | Mining Corporation of Canada | Gold mining | Abandoned | |
Kapuskasing | Kimberly-Clark Forest Products | Pulp and paper | Now incorporated | ||
Killarney | Mostly depopulated | ||||
Manitouwadge | 1953 | General Engineering Co Limited | Copper extraction | Now incorporated | |
Ramsey | 1937 | Mining Corporation of Canada | Gold mining | Abandoned | |
Smooth Rock Falls | approx. 1930's | Abitibi / Tembec / Malette | Pulp and Power | Closed in 2006 | |
Terrace Bay | 1947 | Kimberly-Clark Forest Products | Pulp and paper | Now incorporated | |
Timmins | 1912 | Hollinger Mines | Gold mining | Now incorporated | |
Walkerville | 1890 | Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. | Distilling | Now part of Windsor |
Quebec
editCommunity | Founded | Company | Industry | Status | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Arvida | 1927 | Alcoa | Aluminium smelting | Now part of Saguenay | |
Fermont | 1971 | Québec Cartier Mining Company | Iron mining | Now incorporated | |
Gagnon | 1957 | Québec Cartier Mining Company | Iron mining | Abandoned in 1985 |
Saskatchewan
editCommunity | Founded | Company | Industry | Status | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Eldorado | 1946 | Eldorado Mining and Refining | Uranium mining | Abandoned | [8] |
Goldfields | 1936 | Cominco Ltd. | Gold mining | Abandoned | |
Uranium City | 1956 | Eldorado Mining and Refining | Uranium mining | Incorporated and since dissolved | [9] |
Yukon
editCommunity | Founded | Company | Industry | Status | Refs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clinton Creek | 1967 | Cassiar Asbestos Corporation | Asbestos mining | Abandoned in 1978 | |
Elsa | 1935 | Treadwell/United Keno Hill | Lead, silver, and zinc mining | Abandoned in 1989 | |
Keno City | Hecla Mining | Lead and zinc mining | Mostly depopulated |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Company Towns | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
- ^ "Our Story". Churchill Falls. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
- ^ Julie Cancela (from The Ditch, 1986). "Camp McKinney". Osoyoos and District Museum. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Hester White. "The Story of Camp McKinney (excerpt)". Osoyoos and District Museum. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
- ^ "Cassiar... do you remember? Cassiar and Clinton Creek Section". Cassiar in 1976. Archived from the original on 9 June 2019. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
- ^ "Our Story". Churchill Falls. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
- ^ "Book tells story of Cape Breton's ghost town - Community - Cape Breton Post". www.capebretonpost.com. Archived from the original on 2015-07-25. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
- ^ "Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in Northern Saskatchewan: A Public-Private Transition (Part 2)". International Development Research Centre. Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
- ^ Fission Avenue: Uranium City "Beaverlodge"[permanent dead link]