List of company towns in Canada explained

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.

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

See also: List of canneries in British Columbia.

!Community!Founded!Company!Industry!Status!Refs

Allenby			Copper mining	Abandoned
Anyox	1914	Granby Consolidated	Copper smelting	Abandoned in 1935
Bamberton	1912	Associated Cement Company	Cement plant	Abandoned in 1980
Barkley Valley			Gold mining	Abandoned
Blakeburn			Coal mining	Abandoned
Blubber Bay		Domtar Chemical Company	Limestone quarrying	Mostly depopulated
Bralorne			Gold mining	Mostly depopulated
Brexton	1931	Bridge River Exploration Company	Gold mining	Abandoned
Bridge River		Bridge River Power Project	Hydropower	Mostly depopulated
Britannia Beach	1900	Britannia Mining and Smelting Co.	Copper and gold mining
Camp McKinney	1896		Gold mining	Abandoned in 1903	^[3] ^[4]
Cassiar	1952	Cassiar Asbestos Company	Asbestos mining	Abandoned in 1990s	^[5]
Cassidy		Granby Company	Coal mining
Clayburn	1905	Vancouver Fireclay Company	Brickmaking	Abandoned
Coalmont	1911	Columbia Coal and Coke	Coal mining
Copper Mountain		Granby Company	Copper mining	Abandoned 1958
Fraser Mills	1889	Crown Zellerbach	Sawmilling, pulp and paper	Now part of Coquitlam
Gold River	1967		Logging, pulp and paper	Now incorporated
Harmac			Pulp and paper	Abandoned
Hendrix Lake			Mining	Abandoned
IOCO		Imperial Oil Company	Oil	Abandoned.
Jedway		Granby Company	Iron mining	Abandoned in 1969
Juskatla	1940s		Logging	Abandoned
Kemano	1950s	Alcan	Hydropower	Abandoned in 2000
Kimberley	1909	Cominco Ltd.	Lead and zinc mining	Now incorporated
Kitimat	1951	Alcan	Aluminium smelting	Now incorporated
Kitsault	1979	Phelps Dodge	Molybdenum mining	Now private
Maillardville	1889	Crown Zellerbach	Sawmilling, pulp and paper	Now part of Coquitlam
Minto City	1934		Gold mining
Mount Sheer	1900	Britannia Mining and Smelting Co.	Copper and gold mining
Nitinat		Crown Zellerbach	Sawmilling, pulp and paper
Ocean Falls	1906	Bella Coola Pulp and Paper Co.	Pulp and paper	Mostly depopulated
Pioneer Mine			Gold mining	Abandoned
Port Belmont	1918		Gold mining	Abandoned in 1926
Port Hammond	1910s		Pulp and paper	Now part of Maple Ridge
Port Mellon		Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Corp.	Pulp and paper
Powell River	1910	The Powell River Company	Pulp and paper	Now part of City of Powell River
Premier	1918		Gold mining	Abandoned in 1953
Red Gap	1912	Straits Lumber Co.	Sawmilling	Abandoned
Stewart	1930		Gold mining	Now incorporated
Tasu	1918		Copper and gold mining	Abandoned in 1980s
Tumbler Ridge	1981	BC Resources Investment Co.	Coal mining	Now incorporated
Van Anda		Van Anda Copper & Gold Mining Co.	Copper and gold mining	Mostly depopulated
Woodfibre		Whalen Pulp and Paper Company	Pulp and paper	Mostly depopulated

Manitoba

Community	Founded	Company	Industry	Status	Refs
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

Community	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

Community	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

Ontario

Community	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

Community	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

Community	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

Community	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

• Category:Company towns in Canada
• List of canning towns in British Columbia
• List of historic mining communities
• List of Hudson's Bay Company trading posts
• List of planned cities in Canada

Notes and References

1. Web site: Company Towns The Canadian Encyclopedia . 2022-10-25 . www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca.
2. Web site: Our Story . June 14, 2018 . Churchill Falls.
3. Web site: Julie Cancela (from The Ditch, 1986) . Camp McKinney . April 24, 2016 . Osoyoos and District Museum.
4. Web site: Hester White . The Story of Camp McKinney (excerpt) . April 24, 2016 . Osoyoos and District Museum.
5. Web site: Cassiar... do you remember? Cassiar and Clinton Creek Section . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190609155958/http://www.cassiar.ca/cassiar_town/cassiar.htm . 9 June 2019 . 9 June 2019 . Cassiar in 1976.
6. Web site: Our Story . June 14, 2018 . Churchill Falls.
7. Web site: Book tells story of Cape Breton's ghost town - Community - Cape Breton Post . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150725012348/http://www.capebretonpost.com/Community/2012-12-12/article-3138764/Book-tells-story-of-Cape-Breton%2526rsquo%253Bs-ghost-town/1 . 2015-07-25 . 2015-07-24 . www.capebretonpost.com.
8. Web site: Chapter 7. Uranium Mining in Northern Saskatchewan: A Public-Private Transition (Part 2) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110609001639/http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-28035-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html . 2011-06-09 . 2011-02-22 . International Development Research Centre.
9. http://pages.interlog.com/~grlaird/beaverlodge.html Fission Avenue: Uranium City "Beaverlodge"