I FOUND 30 Places in Ontario You'll Wish You Found Sooner

Drive a hundred-kilometer stretch of gravel north of Bancroft and you'll pass five failed townships without a single sign telling you they're there. Ten Ontario communities are still sitting on the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, their main streets navigable by divers. Toronto has a sealed subway platform under Bay Station that's appeared in dozens of films as a stand-in for an evacuated city. And the entire city of Sudbury was built inside the scar of a 1.85-billion-year-old meteor impact. In this video, we explore: → Five ghost towns strung along a single colonization road north of Bancroft — Murphy's Corners, Glanmire, Umfraville, Musclow, and Thanet — where the cemeteries outlasted the towns themselves → A four-storey underground bunker thirty kilometers west of Ottawa, built between 1959 and 1961 to shelter 535 government officials through a nuclear war that never came — complete with a Bank of Canada vault for restarting the economy from scratch → The richest silver mine on Earth in 1884, killed by a single delayed coal shipment that let Lake Superior flood the shafts permanently → A 35,000-acre prison farm south of Sudbury with unmarked graves on the property, closed in the 1970s and quietly put up for sale in 2021 → A drainage tunnel near Niagara Falls where a 140-year-old legend says lighting a match will make a burned girl scream from the walls → A subway platform sealed under Toronto since 1966 after a six-month experiment that ridership numbers killed → The world's largest known shatter cone, sitting on an island group formed by a one-kilometer meteorite hitting Lake Superior 450 million years ago → A Hudson's Bay Company post founded in 1673 that still has no road access — you take a train, then a boat → A Victorian silver-mining village still standing on the shore where the lake won And at number one: ten communities erased in a single afternoon on July 1, 1958, when the gates of a power dam closed and the river came up. Families got thirty days' notice. The street grids are still on the lakebed. Drive the highway between Cornwall and Morrisburg today and you're driving over what used to be their main streets — and the road doesn't mention it. Subscribe for more hidden corners of Canada. #GhostCanada #Ontario #GhostTowns #LostVillages #CanadianHistory #HiddenCanada #AbandonedCanada #ForgottenPlaces #StLawrenceSeaway #WeirdCanada