10 Unusual Abandoned Places in Canada
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- From abandoned islands, to obscure hidden places, these are 10 UNUSUAL Abandoned Places in Canada
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10. Cole Island
Location - British Columbia
9.Bankhead
Location - Alberta
8.The Guild Inn
Location - Ontario
Locally known as The Guild,this abandoned place was once an impressive hotel in Scarborough Toronto. Since 1914, the property has switched owners many times. It was even used as a Foreign Mission House for the Roman Catholic Church.
What's more impressive than the buildings, is the 90 acres around them. The families that owned the property combined many different architectural styles to create gardens that could rival any property in Europe.
For a long time everything on the property was abandoned, nowadays, the gardens serve as a great spot for intimate weddings, and there have been major talks about reviving the hotel too.
7.Stanley Park Zoo
Location - British Columbia
6.Val Jalbert
Location - Quebec.
My French is not great; so lets just get it out of the way; Val Jalbert is located in Quebec and it is listed as a ghost town. Its easy to see why with photos like this one.
The village sprung to existence because of the successful pulp mill in the area. What is a pulp mill you ask? Its an integral part for the creation of PAPER AND STUFF! You take some wood chips add some magic and then you have FIBERBOARD !
The village was founded in 1901 and by 1929 all the homes in the area were boarded up and everyone was ordered to leave….
In the 1960s the location was transformed into a public park. YAY ! Now everyone can enjoy the nature and check out the homes of the workers that used to work in the mill.
5.Celanese Power House
Location - Alberta
4.Grain Elevators
Location - Alberta
This is not just one site, the countryside of Alberta seems to be littered with dilapidated grain elevators.
Like this one in Herronton, a very small town near Calgary. Or this one in Brant.
Grain elevators commonly refer to buildings that store grain, but they can also refer to what we see in these pictures, towers containing bucket elevators that load up containers with grain.
Locals have tried to preserve as much as they can, and have even started the Alberta Grain Elevator Society !
3.Camp 30
Location - Ontario
2.Partridge Island
Location - New Brunswick
This island has quite a long history, located within the city of Saint John, the island was first used as a quarantine station in 1785. It also had a lighthouse and military post on it.
During the Irish Potato Famine it is estimated that around 30,000 people passed through the island for processing, with around 1200 actually dying there. And by 1890, 78,000 immigrants passed through the island a year. The most famous part of the island is the Celtic cross dedicated to those who passed on the island.
There was a museum near the cross that operated until 1995. Since then, the island has become almost a rite of passage for teenagers in the area. With so much to explore, its easy to see how you can be attracted to the haunting past of the land.
1.Queen of Sidney
Location - British Columbia - Розваги
I live 15 minutes from Bowmanville, and Camp 30, the POW camp was actually for higher up officers; generals, colonels, etc, and nobody was ever intentionally killed or tortured there. They had a great many privileges and were allowed to walk, swim in the nearby waters, play games, leave the premises on occasion etc. The "revolt" mentioned is affectionately called 'The Battle of Bowmanville' and it was a petty protest. They locked themselves inside their rooms and "defended themselves" with hockey sticks and lacrosse sticks. There was one reported injury and it was because of a jam jar.
Never heard anything about this, thanks for sharing
I love it when I see videos of places I've actually visited in a country I live in, thank you!!
Same
Same
I really do enjoy watching this video.
Hi Joanne hope you’re doing well
With your family?
I live 10 mins away from "The Guild Inn" and it's currently being renovated. Their Building 2 modern structures that is connected to the main house. IT'S no longer ABANDONED !!!! #FACTS
forgot to mention its supposed to be haunted aswell
Cheers
You couldnt pay me to live in Scarborough
@@niamhgreatdane Trust me we wouldn't! And bonus for us you aren't here!!
For many years, when it was owned and operated by a family, this was at least partly used as a sort of artists colony. It was always having money issues. These days it's owned by the City and grounds are frequently used for wedding pictures and fashion shoots.
Much of interesting architecture dates from an owner who saved architectural detail from a number of building that were knocked down roughly from 1950-70's.
I live 40 minutes from Toronto and have gone coast to coast in this vast majestic country, can't believe I still have SO much to see and explore. looks like round 2 next year, Thanks for uploading!
"And article from 2001 said the plant was shut down in 2002..."
WHAT?
the article could have been updated in the later years
Maybe they are saying it is going to be shut down in 2002
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Hey, I'm one of those kids who enjoyed the 'rite of passage' you mentioned about Partridge Island. Thanks for the shout out, it was really well researched - you totally did the site justice. I grew up with the island right outside of my bedroom window.
Shout out to my Canadian neighbors up north! Im definitely checking out that country one day
Start with montreal
Make sure you check out both coasts, both very beautiful but very distinctively different from one another
He is right start with the boring places and finish with Toronto Ottawa Montreal
Fuck Montreal 😂😂
Avoid all of Quebec! And you will see beautiful country trees and hills and such
I live in British Columbia and I have, on a couple of occasions, while she was in service of BC Ferries in the 1990's, sailed aboard MV Queen of Sidney, from Comox to Powell River. Great memories. Rest in Peace, Queen of Sidney...
immortalraider13 theDoombringer my uncle lives in comox
Nicely done. I’m Canadian and I learned some stuff from the video
Near Kamloops British Columbia, there is lots of cool abandon gold mines, even an abandon asylum called Tranquille Pandova City. In the 1800s and 1900s it used to be a prision/mental hospital. In the middle of the night if you were near Kamloops lake sometimes you could hear doors slamming and even some screams of terror coming from the old Asylum. There is also an abandoned ww2 military base out by Paul Lake.
Nice video Taltanic......What really moved me was your bit on the Queen of Sydney. I was born in 1964, the ship was 4 years old then. My Moms' parents lived on Gabriola Island in B.C. and my family would ride this ferry to Nanaimo, then take a smaller one to Gabriola Is. My Grandparents' home faced the ocean and we could see this ferry as it sailed its' route from Tsawwassen to Nanaimo and back.
WOWEE, time has flown and childhood experiences are now just fond memories. I LOVED WATCHING THIS SHIP PASS BY AS I PLAYED ON THE SANDSTONE BEACH.........................
I live down the street from The Guild Inn...in 2018 they removed the hotel/inn part of this and the main building is now a restaurant and has a banquet hall in it, the gardens in the back are used for weddings and wedding photos
That sound nice. Hi there hope you’re doing well with your family i do hope you’re safe from the Covid?
Really interesting. Thanks.
Contrary to No. 4 in the video, the countryside of Alberta is not littered with grain elevators. In fact, there were very few left standing long before this video was made. The reason is because of the way they were made. Most were built in the early years of the 20th century and the foundation consisted of a series of crossed timbers, not cement. The purpose of grain elevators was to hold wheat and barley crops brought there by farmers until an empty grain car was available to be loaded, so all grain elevators were built beside railroad tracks. Grain elevators had 30-40 internal bins and as soon as the track-side bins were empty the grain would be shifted to that side. After 70-80 years, the elevators started to lean towards the tracks. The advent of cheap truck transport plus the increasing instability of the elevators meant that they had to be removed in order for trains to keep using the track safely ( plus, with all the grain dust in every nook and cranny, they were a serious fire hazard). When I was a kid growing up in Alberta grain elevators were everywhere; now they are quite rare and the ones that are left are being restored as historical sites.
Cool video! There are many abandoned towns and grain elevators in Saskatchewan too.
Cool video. I really liked it :)
It's good to see that other than New Brunswick the rest of eastern Canada is alive and thriving, no government abandoning or anything! :P
What about Ocean Falls or Namu BC? You gotta log on the B.C. coast man. So
many abandoned spots.
No Kitsault B.C.? It's a whole town for 1.200 people abandoned and still in perfect condition.
Kitsaul has already been bought by a new owner for $7 million and it's been in process of renovation so research on it
Cassiar would be more interesting everyone had to leave when something happened at the nearby asbestos mine and its basically BCs prypyat except you worry about being in contact with asbestos rather than radiation
Wow had no idea on these places. Good info
Cool!
nice video well done. thanks
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As someone living in Edmonton I didn't even know this plant was a thing. Now I really want to find it :)
Is the plant still around? I read it was ready to be demolished in an article of 2011.
There's still parts of it left North of the yellowhead on 17 st
I'm an actor I remember shooting at the fairy boneyard in the movie Damage in the heated dog scene 7:07 was the location of the fight on the dock.
Awesome video! Just a quick correction about Camp 30 though; it hasn't been successfully bought by the Municipality of Clarington yet but they are hoping to do so so it can be better preserved.
One of my first rave parties was held in 1998 at Val Jalbert's old pulp factory, up in the mountain. I used to go there visit the ghost town with my mom when I was young but this event was a huge Halloween party and it was really awesome. It will definitely stay in my memories :) This place is worth a visit if you ever go to Lac Saint-Jean !
Yay! something about my home country!
Type in Destination Adventures he's from Williams Lake BC
Yo... did this guy seriously just say scarborough toronto... bruh
The lack of research on this channel is astounding. Couldn't even hire a Canadian to do the talkover... smh
He probably went on wikipedia where they classify scarborough as a borough (no pun intended) of Toronto since it’s amalgamated, like the Bronx in NYC. Even though culturally Torontonians still just call it Scarborough.
Scarborough is a part of Toronto though, just like Etobicoke and North & East York. Used to be separate cities until they joined with Toronto
Dunno since I'm only in Toronto/Hamilton Halton area. Was Mississauga part of Toronto?
Canada is great, I’ve been to the cole mines! They take you inside the mines a bit and you get to go in the old buildings, they even have a little train you can ride in!
I been to number 4 alot! Drive by to be exact when i was a kid!
Same here! I live near Olds Alberta. My dads great uncle built the grain elevator in Sundre at the entrance to town.
Location: Quebec ! Hahaha "Hey I know a guy from Canada. Do you know Bob?"
Ive been through stanley parks so many times and never thought to find the remnants of the zoo. Now i have a mission for the day. Thanks for the video fam. And saskatchewen has plenty of decrepit grain bins as well. I call them prairie skyscrapers. There was also the abandoned mcbarge that was a floating mcdonalds built for expo86. It was abandoned near indian arm until a year ago when a salvage company bought it. There rumors that its haunted by the soul of the mcburgular.
I am so surprised that Newfoundland didn't get a mention, we have loads of awesome abandoned sites!
From Vancouver, British Columbia 👍🏼
Honest question here, how in the world are you Vancouverites able to handle the sheer amount of traffic you've got?
Those elevators are pretty cool! Sad at the same time...
Most people that do these type of videos don't think twice about researching any new updates about abandoned towns being re-renovated , etc...
I don't know a lot about the Celanese plant, but I do know that I had to go out there to do a service call for a 3rd party contractor around 2005.... The plant was still occupied, but a lot of stuff was sitting decommissioned and unused, including the generating station. I remember the raw water pump system that drew water in from the river was still operating too because we had to go down there and look at some high voltage breakers.
A fellow I worked for owns, or did own, the Queen Of Sidney. He bought it for not much. It paid for itself in just the fuel left in the tanks, and he ran all his farm equipment on it for 2 years. In his barn he had the brass ship’s bell, the wheel, and the portrait of the Queen Elizabeth. I even used the first aid kit from it to patch up a co-worker who cut himself. He rented it for everything film location to paintball games. I rode on that ferry a lot when it was in service. It’s not at Silverdale any more, don’t know what happened to it
Partridge island is very neat ive made the journey through the rocks to the island a few times i hope they do open it up to tourism
Thank you for Canada. Later can you find more please. Also Saskatchewan has grain elevators too.
Shatford Chunderous pretty sure everywhere does just Alberta has a shit pile more there are about 4 within a 20 min drive from me
KittyChanU2 he also got that Brandt grain elevator wrong there isn't a place called Brandt in Alberta
KittyChanU2 so does Alberta
Type Destination Adventures he's from BC
Trinity Loop here in Newfoundland is an abandoned amusement park which still has a lot of old things standing including a number of buildings, a Ferriswheel, and some train cars. We also have a number of abandoned communities which are very interesting to explore if you are able to get a way to them
Partridge Island seems like a cool place to visit; since I'm Irish and all!
Had no idea unearthed was your channel as well (which I was already subb'd to).
Of note:
The Queen of Sidney was the very first ferry to be built and put into service by BC Ferries. Before that, only a small number of ships from companies that were purchased by the BC government to form BC Ferries had been in use. The Sidney is in essence the first BC Ferry starting a long line of successful ships.
To addon to this for fun, it was decommissioned about 10 years earlier than her sister ship, the Queen of Tsawassen, due to some issues. These "issues" were failing engines, with engines leaking exhaust and oil, which just ended up being a health hazard to the engineers. So they sold it thinking it was going to be sold to be used in a logging camp, but it ended up in the hands of some person who has it just sitting there.
Queen of Sidney also appeared in The X-Files and Supernatural.
I was thinking I’d seen it in SPN
At 6:48 you say "70 year old" but she is only 59 now. First sailing was June 15th 1960, last sailing Nov 28th 2000.
I had no Idea Stanley Park Zoo closed in 1996, what a shame.
Also abandoned in British Columbia is Namu and sumthin,? Falls,
Ocean Falls. Still inhabited by about a dozen people and still gets ferry service.
Such a good boy I'm so proud of you
Talltanic if you do another Canada one check out the White Otter castle in Ontario. Very cool.
O.m.g!!! I was hoping the Stanley park zoo would be on this list !! In Stanley park right by the Vancouver aquarium there is a little place where there is some information about the old zoo. There is also that very picture of the guy standing with the elephant !!
Surprised the old abandoned sanitarium in Gravenhurst, Ontario wasn't on here it's creepy
Camp 20
I've been to Village Valjalbert, it's cool and actors put on shows , we really enjoyed our day. it's located in lac st jean
No mention of the Sooke potholes....neat place to take a hike.
That's a Provincial Park, these places are abandoned
Me who lives in Canada: *How did I not know about some of these?*
Canada seems like such an interesting place to visit.
It really isn't
It is...I love Canada.Am married to a Canadian .love their wide open areas,fields,exciting places to visit ,clean gardens & parks & the most polite people on Earth.
I'm just here to find my next vacation spot in my lovely country
St. Anthony's, Newfoundland. Apparently, not too far from there is a viking settlement.
All these abandoned places have such fascinating potential for some billionaire James Bond villain and plans.
You can actually explore the elevator in Nanton. There is also an air museum which is worth seeing. Nanton is between Calgary and Lethbridge Alberta.
I went to Stanley park zoo
I would love to visit Canada one day.
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100 Cool Ideas! don't it's horrible here I'm Dominican but I live here in Canada and it sucks here
Giselle Feliz . LOL. no it isnt its not horrible. U must be too used to your crap shacks in the dominican 🤔 Ive lived here for 32 years, its the most wonderfull place to be. Lots of nature and tourist spots, we don't have as much crime as probably down in the dominican too!. Btw please go back then if u dont like it here, and our freedom maybe?? Purhaps u can get hepitis C down there or something..
It's great up here!
It amazing here! Ive lived here all my life and it really hot in the summer, and beautiful in the winter!
The Guild Inn is renovated and open now. I was there in October 2017
Lived in Nanaimo and the few times we went to Victoria we never took a look at Cole island would be a cool little spot to visit if you had a boat
I walk right by the zoo in Stanley park when going to the aquarium
The Guild Inn is also the site of a collection of pieces taken from demolished buildings in Toronto.
Kitsault and ocean falls are two abandoned towns in British columbia should have there own videos because they are so interesting
aw man, no manitoba :( still a really cool video though!!
Good video!! Hey what happened to the Cruise ship?
Many of the old grain elevators have been demolished here in Alberta I find theres more of them in Saskatchewan
Love Canada Québec
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can u maybe do anything about Minnesota I live there it's cool :3
The Queen Of Sidney is a 30min drive from where I live. It is strange to look at, but it's not a ghost ship at all. Just a rusty hulk that no one wants. There was a rumor some years back where someone bought it and planned to turn it into a houseboat. Still haven't seen that happen yet.
Talltanic do you have the address/ coordinates for the Celanese Power House? I'm in Edm
I live close to the Queen of Sidney, it's in deplorable condition and is barely recognizable as a ship. It's just west of Mission, sitting on the Fraser River bank, with a bunch of other rusting abandoned boats and junk. So sad.
I live right by the abandon Celanese Eva Polymers plant. never knew it was abandoned.
Near my home in British Columbia If I travel up the mountain a bit then walk for a couple of kilometres there is a abandoned cabin. I have found some interesting things there but have only went once, I only really remember a couple of items I found and only one I could tell was an oil lamp. The others were either nails or random pieces of metal or other items. It’s a very interesting place. No one knows who built it or where they went, it’s a very interesting little place maybe I will go metal detecting up their again sometime.
I am so proud that my home province made this list. And one of the cities that's only a 47 minute drive away from me Saint John. But new brunswick has more to offer then ghost towns and poor cities. It has blueberry fields that still have WWII bomb shelters and bunkers. Not that Saint John doesn't have those around the city either. But Pennfield where the blueberry fields are located was the home to a airfield. So it makes sense for military complexes to be around it. But NB is so beautiful in the fall that one has to see it to believe it.
Been to Camp 30 it is a really cool place to see if you get the chance.
im from malaysia. nice video
I'm from BC and i think ive seen cole island
I'd stay there for a investigation, I'm a young paranormal investigator so yeah
Cole island is like a 5 minute walk from my house lol
Yeah I'm from Langford, I've been on it a few times with sea cadets in my teens
The Celanese plant (the AT Plastics one) closed down in late 2006 as the reactors were not efficient enough and Celanese still operate the Celanese Eva Polymers plant in Edmonton located just off the 101 Ave NW east of 49 st NW. All people working at the AT Plastics plant were moved to the more updated plant. There they have 5 reactors which made plastics, but recently all but 2 of the reactors have been shutdown and alot of the people working there have been laidoff.
ive seen coal island before from the local ferry port. its pretty spoopy
I live in Bowmanville so yay happy about that, camp 30 is legit creepy though especially underground in the tunnels though
Noah Madill bruh same but camp 30 is garbage now since they blocked off the tunnels
@@nry5485 true those were the days though of going in there during the summer
At stanley park, there are these pushes and behind them, there is the abandon zoo! Ive seen it in its abandon state
We demolished half of Celanese in Edmonton for an oil by Rail terminal. The place was a petrochemical plant that apparently at one point produced Agent Orange and cigarette butts amongst other things.
I've sailed aboard the MV Queen of Sidney & the MV Queen of Saanich on the Powell River- Westview to Comox Valley route (BC Ferries Corporation). This is awesome how they regard the Queen of Sidney so highly, putting her at #1!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😆😆😅😅😅😅😅😅😁😂😂😂😂
Stanley park zoo more like closed then abandoned i remember it as a kid even those polar bears. That whole park is live and active that's just one small part.
@3:20 when yu realize your fireplace was the strongest part of your house and stand still after all this time...
I was a waiter on the queen of sidney so many memories great story
I used to have to patrol the ship graveyard as a security guard in Vancouver and I have to say these boats freak you out at night man...seriously
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I use to live it Alberta for a short amount of time in my life, I didn't know much, since I was only 5, but a friend of mines older brother apparently has snooped threw a the plant, thats all I really know, but I'm actually thinking of looking up the plant, and doing some research, which I think would be cool to do!
Stanley park is one of the busiest places in vancouver, play dodge the jogger/biker
The Guild Inn is being renovated and a new Hotel is scheduled to be opened this year on the property. The property is owned by City of Toronto and is only being leased to the developers.
Ocean falls is a cool town in bc used to be a mine town had a giantic hydro dam right in middle of town only about 50 people there really cool worth a google
They tore down Camp 30 recently. Used to go there all the time
i can see partridge island from where im sitting right now out my window, made the trip across the rocks several times, you have to walk across a breakwater formed with huge rocks to get out there, it takes about a hour to a hour and a half depending on your pace. lots of dumb kids sprain ankles or break legs making the walk across and have to be rescued by the coast guard, come spring you will see all the teens walking down the street with tents and back packs all going out to spend the night on the island.
You could have given the grain elevators to Saskatchewan!
No shit!
WOAH WOAH WOAH!! I live not to far from there + Toronto!! and I had an hockey tourney there! - btw not at the guild hall-
To correct on the property of the Queen of Sidney. They know precisely who is the owner of that boat and the property it is on, many people ask him for a tour of the ship. The government controversy is from that graveyard posing an environmental risk on the Frazer River. It was decommissioned about 10 years earlier than her sister ship, the Queen of Tsawassen, due to some issues. These "issues" were failing engines, with engines leaking exhaust and oil, which just ended up being a health hazard to the engineers. So they sold it thinking it was going to be sold to be used in a logging camp, but it ended up in the hands of some person who has it just sitting there.