10 Weirdest And Isolated Towns in Ontario

Ontario has over 400 ghost towns buried in the wilderness, but a few of them go beyond just running out of money. There's a town that tore down government signs to keep a name the province tried to erase. There's a mine shaft sinking 1,200 feet below the bottom of Lake Superior — until one coal shipment never arrived. And there's a community on a river island that ran its own hand-operated ferry and could literally vanish from the world by pulling a cable. These are 10 of the strangest, most isolated places Ontario forgot to tell you about. In this video, we explore: → A gold rush town that fought the provincial government during World War II to keep its controversial name — residents tore down the new signs and put the old ones back up themselves → A sawmill ruin in Renfrew County where the roof has collapsed and the machinery has rusted solid, but the scale of the building still tells you exactly how much money once flowed through that creek → The richest silver mine on the planet, built on a rock the size of a ballroom in the middle of Lake Superior — shafts running over 1,200 feet deep, kept alive by pumps that could never stop, until the coal that ran them froze in a ship trapped in the ice → A farming crossroads whose name has survived for over a century after every building was torn down — the road sign gets stolen so often that the government now bolts it down with specialized hardware → An entire network of Victorian-era villages around Burks Falls, swallowed back by the forest after settlers discovered the soil was too thin and rocky to farm — now just rows of maple trees and cellar holes where the streets used to be → Irish famine survivors who settled along the Opeongo Line after the government called it the "Garden of Canada" — then spent decades cut off from the province for months at a time, on hillsides so steep the cows could barely stand → Northern mining clusters with electric streetlights and professional hockey teams while the rest of the country read by candlelight — gone so fast when the ore ran out that people left furniture in the houses and tools in the shops → Logging outposts in the boreal north so isolated that the psychological condition of living there had its own name — now crushed under decades of snow, leaving nothing but circles of rusted tin cans in the trees → And at number one: a river island community that ran its own micro-nation for generations, controlling the only ferry in or out — and could disappear from the world entirely whenever they chose to pull the cable Subscribe for more hidden corners of Canada. #GhostCanada #GhostTowns #OntarioHistory #HiddenCanada #AbandonedOntario #ForgottenPlaces #AbandonedCanada #CanadianHistory #GhostTownsOfCanada #Ontario