Ontario Ghost Town Coming Back To Life? Britt & Byng Inlet, Ontario! Pt. 1 *WITH COMMENTARY*
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2023
- Exploring old ghost towns in near-north Ontario in the town of Britt.
#ghosttown #travel #cottage #travelvlog #vlog #ontario #canada #outdoors #fishing
I have a place in Britt on the water, near the end of the road. Cool video, nice seeing the area from someone else’s perspective
@davecervo. Awesome. You live in hidden gem. We have a cottage in the area and used to go to a restaurant called The Britt Inn. Great perch burgers. They had hotel rooms for rent. We went on a fishing charter.
Fun times
Not only is this a fantastic random TY algorithm find, but your stoic fact driven VO mixed with thoughtful slow visuals of generational poverty, broken dreams and new wealth, the tone is sooo Twin Peaks/David Lynch. Well done.
That beautiful sky made it even better. Reminds me of the maritimes
That guy in the motel could be Jeepers Creepers! 😵😵😵
At the beginning of your video on hwy 69, you drive by a dilapidated building on the east side with what appears to be an old sailboat in front of it. That used to be a small old truck stop called the Deerhorn. The owner was a friend of a guy named Jack who ended up owning the French River Inn on the west side of hwy 69 just north of of the river. Also became a popular eating spot for truckers. Unfortunately, he closed the place when the rebuilding of 69 moved the hwy further east taking the Inn directly off the hwy. Jack passed away about 4 - 5 years ago. His son owns the scrap yard and towing company on the same side of the hwy between the Inn and the river
That is further north, north of the French River bridge. The old Deerhorn Jack never owned.
That's correct. He owned the French River Inn
I love little minimalist towns like that I live in one right now in Western Canada. I think it’s beautiful.
Lots of ghost towns like this built near a sawmill or papermill which our pal trudy shut them all down one in Dryden is the only one
Left in this corner of ontario
Espanola is another one 1500 jobs gone in one night now the town is emptying out .
This video came up by fluke, I watched it, and I absolutely loved it. It was the exact distraction I needed after a tough week here in Toronto 😂. You have a new subscriber my friend, I plan to watch a lot more of these very soon! Thank you! ❤
The town ran into trouble in the early 80s and a depression, but never ever was abandoned. You still resided a handful of people who is never completely a ghost town.
I can remember picking up fuel at an Esso terminal just off 69 going into Britt .
Approximately 40 years ago my parents and aunt and uncle went and vacationed at Byng Inlet. It was at a beautiful big old house the bottom of a steep hill, landing at the water. They had 3 cottages and had just bought the place and were fixing it up. I recall they had twin sons. My dad was a mechanic and went fishing on one of their boats, which promptly broke down lol his luck. In the middle of water he fixed the boat motor. When he arrived back and explained he was offered a job and a place to stay LOL He declined but i would have loved it. Everyone was so nice❤ thank you Byng Inlet❤
My in laws retired to French River near there in their cottage back in the 1980s. They had a cottage there for many, many years despite F.i.l. being O.P.P. and stationed all over the province. Surprised to hear it was a ghost town.
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All the old buildings along highway 69 were part of the sale to the Province for the 400 expansion. The community of Britt can be considered a sleep community and cottage country. Still many full time residents.
I literally saw my cottage in this video lol. My dad grew up here his family is part of the history that goes way back, my great grandfather owned the property the oil pipe ran through and a massive dock for the oil ships.
The garbage farm at the start of the video has always been the same from when I can remember, which I was born and raised visiting here in ‘91.
You also passed the infamous “Pink House”. Guess which one that was, lol.
I don’t think it’ll ever build up here, you have to pass through First Nations reserve land to get here unless you come down “the old highway” which is long and crappy.
@@TurfToursCanada yeah I’ll ask my aunt who grew up there!
Update! My Aunt said she recognized the name Broadhurst, but didn’t know your grandfather that she could remember. It’s possibly my grandfather or great uncles did. She said they often went to Larry’s Tavern!
She also did confirm that Byng and Britt had a LOT of fighting in the bars, including my family members who, along with a lot of hardworking men, would go to the Britt hotel, get loaded and fight .
The farm was indeed once a beautiful, and vibrant farm you could visit and she said it was owned by Pat Barkesy. Cows, gotas, chickens and all the typical farm animals were there apparently.
Our family names are Crete & Lamore!
My grandmother was born in Byng Inlet in 1889. Father was lumberjack. Mother ran boarding house for other lumberjacks.
We’re probably cousins lol, my family was from here too.
My grandfather was also from Byng inlet. His name was Clifford Blais Sr. He married my grandmother during the war. She was from England and when she moved to Byng inlet she thought it was a joke her new husband was playing on her. His mother, Julia Cadeaux refused to speak English to my grandmother and the family was horrible to her. They would call her bad names if she put lipstick on. It was much like the movie war brides. The minute my grandmother got a few dollars, she bought a ticket to Sault Ste Marie, and NEVER went back to Bying inlet ever again!
It is a great video but your history is wrong. Byng Inlet had the sawmills and 1the fires. Britt was a coal town that switched to fuel. Google it. Also look at the date. We all still have our flags up from Canada Day. The fish in the road is probably from a bird. Britt has been booming for years. It is Byng Inlet that is the ghost town. I went to Britt School in the 70's and there was over 300 kids in the school. The dead restaurants are privately owned by we don't know who?? So we can't clean it up. The "highway trailer park" as you called it, was actually a motel and restaurant restaurant that burned down and had no insurance and the owners live in the trailers. We love our little town and it has been dubbed by the Globe and Mail as the "hidden pearl of Georgian Bay"
Are there vacant homes available for rent? There appear to be abandoned houses across the prairies also. Perhaps these houses could be useful for those looking for affordable housing.
Thanks for the real info
So he didn't grow up there he gave us the info that was available to him so take a breath and relax . It was deemed a ghost town in the late 90s Google it lol . Liberals lol .
Been going up there for near 30 years to musky fish now take my family and my kids up at a resort on the river we absolutely love it thanks for the drive-thru town was craving it
Have spent years visiting Britt and the Inlet my father was born in Britt.
15:05. That was the Little Britt Inn. I was THE drinking establishment in Britt. Walked across from the government wharf to quench my thirst there many times. If those walls could talk
@@TurfToursCanada That was more of a motel with attached restaurant about a mile south of Pte au Baril on the highway. We were boaters
My family owns the Britt in now we are the Dowling’s
I'd live there, just for the crickets at night.
Cheers from Saudi! much luv for ur work man, keep on doing it!
Wow thank you
Very interesting!! We pass this on the hwy every weekend on our way to our cabin but have never actually been into the town of Britt. Also, that motel is CREEPY...how weird someone was in there!!!
That stretch of Hwy 69 has always had criminal problems from drunk redneck police chases to illegal poaching to heavy drug abuse.
Looks like nice country quiet any lakes
I used to go there alot as a teenager, fun times
Wow. Ive never really seen a town like this before 😮
Our saiking group launches at britt a couple times a year. We love that area. Its not overcrowded and so much to see on the water
Enjoyed this video. We have a cottage in the area and went to Britt lots. The Little Britt Inn made great perch burgers. Did a fishing charter there. Do they still have fishing charters from there?
Britt is the name of the weather radar there, visible from the highway. Refer to it all the time for weather that could hit Manitoulin. The name is short and easy to find with Google, as there is nothing else in the world with the same name.
Wasn’t the huge sawmill actually in Byng Inlet? My grandfather was the doctor for the mill in very early 1900’s and my Dad was born in Byng Inlet in 1908, delivered by his father.
I've been there years ago. Drank a few beers at St.Amants and went to the liquor store too lol. I knew a few people who lived there they have since passed away :(
My friend used to go to Gost town every yr to party. Dylan Matthews. Sadly missed. ❤️🇨🇦
That end of town road would be tough to clear the snow its looks , maybe they break out the dogsleds by that point !
Caught one of my biggest musky on the Byng inlet side. Great town but not a ghost town for sure. I'll show you a ghost town not to far from here.
Britt is not a ghost town. It never has been a ghost town oil ships go in there and unload the oil. Lotta tourists there if you drive down the road to Brett you’ll find cottages all along the magneton river and The Still River
Well narrated i enjoyed…
I caught a 52 inch musky in the mag ...casting brown bucktail off the shore
Interesting
That truck was embarrassing 🤣
@@TurfToursCanada Majority? I don't like him either, but a massive majority do not have embarrassing stickers like that. (You need to look up the word majority in the dictionary.)
@@TurfToursCanada The sticker is still embarrassing and immature - no matter who it is directed at, so the original comment is correct.
Lol, well since it’s our vehicle. I think I’ll order a bigger one just to make y’all cringe 😂🤢 FUCK YOU TRUDEAU !
good job pal greetings from a seasonal pointe-au-baril guy ...
I practically grew up on the naiscoot
@@TurfToursCanada Harris lake for me !! North Mag !
Sing me up I will move there
I stopped at that hotel often. Lol freak photos
Awesome fishing .. big muskie
Remember loading gas there (I think it was an Esso terminal) and delivering it in Sudbury and surrounding town in the mid 70's
Don't remember the road name
Looks like a lot of potential1
I can see why it's coming back. It has grid power and waterfront views and near North is very affordable.
Absolutely!
I was there in 1980 on the oil tanker "TEXACO WARRIOR"
"Someone should do something", everybody said but nobody did.
You guys were so close to the old abandoned jail in burwash. You should really check that out
Please, if anyone knows about a man named Vincent Broadhurst from this area, please reply! He lived on the Naiscoot and was a regular at Larrys Tavern in Pointe Au Baril. He was my grandfather and i would love to hear peoples personal stories of him since i was young when he passed
Went to britt in summer for years
Hey that’s my truck and my dump lol
will Rodney ontario come back on the map again or is it dead !!! it was on the northern shoreline inland up to 100km. if you live there let me know I wanna stop by next year since you were my high school project on small towns to visit !!! 20 yrs ago about !!!
The next Elliott Lake?
Looks like some places in Canada also..
SURE HAS CHANGED SINCE I WAS THERE,
but is it native land.
we pass the cutoff all the time going up to Elliot Lake...
You're wrong, it was never an oil hub to refuel ships. Ships offloaded oil for the north, and they still do but with barges now. and before that coal was shipped there. We had a camp there from 1964 until 1995. And I guess if you're " looking for trouble" you can find it anywhere.
@@TurfToursCanada Turf Tours is right. I have seen massive tankers come into Britt from Toledo Ohio to pump diesel up the hill to a tank farm to refuel CPR trains and confirmed by the locals in the Legion one night
Not Canadiana but good old northern Ontario hospitality 🇨🇦🏴☠️
This looks like millnet behind capreol lol
Odd i recognized the OPP house on 69.
They were all similar in the north. My F.i.L. was OPP, as was my late husband. Detachments were all standard, only different sizes by population.
Britt Ontario - where old boaters and their old boats go to die. Imagine what that place looks like in the winter.
You hit the nail on the head,depressing ?
Can I move there and live in someone's barn or something ?
I don't understand why that stretch of Hwy 69 isn't cleaned up. It's been like that for years and it's terrible and dangerous. Who's responsible?
It is all privately owned. Britt is an unorganized township so bylaws fall to the province.
@@lynnebarron8694 Thanks.... so why then doesn't the province mandate that whomever cleans this up? That old motel has been there forever and people go "exploring" inside and it's dangerous. Ditto the gas station across the street. Should I write to Doug Ford?
@@CalvinTor you can try but we really have no bylaws here, the person who owned the property directly across from there was using his property as a construction dump. It was disgusting. He finally sold it and it got cleaned up. Maybe the properties have not had the taxes paid...I don't have the answers. I drive by it twice a day going to work. Would love to see it cleaned. And I actually worked at that restaurant in its heyday...sad to see it the way it is.
@@lynnebarron8694 I remember it well from when I was a kid when we visited Toronto a lot. The hotel was humming, so was the resto, and everyone slowed down because there was the OPP detachment. Then it all fell apart. Like the OP says, it looks like a slum you'd find in the US.
That's nowhere near a ghost town. Some great fishing at Bying inlet.
what jobs are anywhere near here?
I live in Thunder Bay, not far from there. Lots of little broke towns around our area going east or west.
Thunder Bay not far from there ? Only 12 hour drive from there . lol
@@kevinarmstrong6957you obviously don’t know canada very well… and definitely not northern Canada. thats a typical distance from one city to another. No big deal lil buddy, youll figure it out. Thunder bay to winnipeg 8 hrs. Thunder bay to Sioux st marie 8rs. Tbay to Toronto 16hrs. To Ottawa 12 hrs. Winnipeg to Saskatchewan 10 hrs. Saskatchewan to Edmonton 6hrs. Calgary to Vancouver 12hrs. We consider anywhere from Kenora to Toronto close to Thunder Bay lol thats a 20 hr drive apart
@@wrenchboostboi8994 you obviously don’t know what your talking about , because I am Canadian , and have been for 58 years ! And yes I have been to Winnipeg , Kenora , Thunder Bay , Kapuskasing , Sault Ste Marie , Sudbury and everywhere in between .
Have you lost your mind thunder base not even close to Britt
@@kevinarmstrong6957 Congrats on being Canadian other guy lol but not unique… just saying. I am too, from birth 36 years ago. And Now were just splitting hairs about what close is… lol I suppose close is a term more commonly used for the next town over, but like I said, I consider close anywhere from Kenora to Toronto cuz that’s about how far I am willing to travel without much issue.
Man I'm buying a motorhome and putting my Jeep on the back and going to look for property up Northern Ontario Canada
@@TurfToursCanadaNorth Bay is having a population retention problem. High schools closed for lack of enrolment. High taxes and a downtown that’s not doing well.
Please go to wallaceburg ontario. The downfall of what was is f%#&^ing astounding.
@@TurfToursCanada at one point the town it supplied the worlds largest supplier of glass related products. Its hayday was in the 80s . Early 90s. We had glass factorys and boat repair docks all over its right next to detroit and kinda in between windsor ontario .
What did you mean like parts of the United States?
@TurfToursCanada I am an expat living in the USA, and majority of our towns and cities have manicured boulevards, not like the cities in Canada with Two feet weeds heck they mow the middle and side of the interstate
@TurfToursCanada yes you are right. The delta we have the inner cities, but when it comes to just the cities and neighborhoods like say Toronto to New York, the US cities are way nicer
Would rather see this than the shit i see in moronto.been up there for years and lve it
Did I hear that right? You said Sudbury is very Liberal?
@TurfToursCanada funny, I was just there... there was a ton of F Trudeau all around, times are changing.
My father was born there.
Whats up Matt?? _>Trevor Emery
No matter how shitty the economy is even in the tiniest villages , everyone of em seems to have an l.c.b.o outlet lol
Not that I have anything against Cosco except no one can buy there unless a member,,, private property+membership=nada 🐺
It's not Costco (which I love for bulk buying) it's COSCO - China Ocean Shipping Company. Don't know why that's there though.
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@@TurfToursCanada Talk for yourself. 🌻
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windsock your mike - gee
no more greyhound
We still get the Ontario Northland, gotta call in advance & hang out at the off ramp into Britt to catch the bus
This is not really mot northern Ontario as we know it.
Fkn come on guys our military and cops need to clean house of the 5min student scam artist that made it here in the Trudeau Era
new playground of the rich ...
yep pass by there monthly ... lol who cares leave it be
why people need these huge homes in the middle of an already beautiful oasis is beyond me. Some of them are tacky !
@@TravelNut72 Freedom is a beautiful thing. Deciding what people "need" is a fools errand.
That was a pike on the road 🤦 Lol
I meant large mouth Muskie
LMAO That is not a ghost town at all .................. LOL nice click bait
who cares
I live out in the bush an hour away from Britt. It's my closest LCBO!
Where ya at? I camp out the pickerel river all summer
@@TurfToursCanada I'm near the Lost Channel Marina. I canoe up Dollars L, over the dam, and down to Georgian Bay through the French R park most summers. I'm always up for some fishing. Where do you camp?
@mcetcher T bay up by the 28 mile marker on pickerel river logging road. I park on an active skidder and hike into t bay on the French
@@TurfToursCanada I know it. You turn north off the 522 after the tracks. How long is the hike into T Bay from your camp?
@@mcetcher my hike from the truck takes me right to a narrow at t bay. I just packed up 2 days ago, I'll be back soon.