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Ocean Falls: the rain-soaked mill town that almost vanished
On a coast that rains more than almost anywhere on earth, a paper town of thousands shrank to a few dozen.
Region · Canada
Abandoned Canada
Company towns, mill towns and mining camps. Canada's abandonment is northern and remote — places built around a single resource, then left when the resource ran out.
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Every place we've documented in Canada
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Uranium City: the boomtown that lost its reason to exist
For thirty years it was a model northern town. Then the mines shut, and within a season it was a ghost.
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Anyox: the copper town that burned and was forgotten
On a fjord reachable only by sea, a copper empire rose, ran for twenty-five years, and vanished.
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