List of company towns in Canada

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This is a list of company towns in Canada.

Towns listed in bold are still considered company towns today; other entries are former company towns. See the Category:Company towns in Canada for an unannotated list of articles.

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  • Anyox, British Columbia, a now-abandoned smelter town on Observatory Inlet, near the mouth of the Nass River.
  • Arvida or now Jonquière, Quebec, owned by Alcan
  • Batawa, Ontario owned by Bata
  • Bralorne, British Columbia, and nearby ; both famous gold mining towns; Bralorne's third townsite is also known as Bradian
  • Bridge River aka Bridge River Townsite, now South Shalalth, a British Columbia model village developed as part of the Bridge River Power Project and now mostly depopulated.
  • Britannia Beach, British Columbia - a semi-abandoned copper and gold mine and crushing plant near Squamish
  • Camp McKinney - gold, near Rock Creek, British Columbia
  • Clayburn, British Columbia - brick clay mine and brick kiln
  • Clinton Creek, Yukon - asbestos mine, abandoned 1970s
  • Copper Mountain, British Columbia - copper, near Princeton, British Columbia, abandoned 1960s
  • Cassiar, British Columbia - asbestos mine, near Jade City, British Columbia, abandoned 1990s
  • Espanola, Ontario, until 1958 owned by the paper mill.
  • Elsa, Yukon, owned by Treadwell Yukon and later United Keno Hill Mines, abandoned 1980s
  • Fermont, Quebec
  • Flin Flon, Manitoba (and Saskatchewan), owned by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting(HBMS)
  • Fort Vancouver and other former Hudson's Bay Company trading posts-cum-towns in the Pacific Northwest. Others include Colville, Victoria BC, Fort Langley BC, Hope BC and more.
  • Fraser Mills, British Columbia, now part of Coquitlam but originally owned by Crown Zellerbach (the company President was the mayor, by default and acclamation). Most workers in Fraser Mills did not live in the "village" (as incorporated) but in nearby Maillardville
  • Gold River, British Columbia - now incorporated
  • - pulp mill, near Nanaimo, British Columbia
  • Kemano, British Columbia - no longer in existence; all that is left is the hydroelectric power station, which provides power to Kitimat's aluminium smelter. After it was abandoned, the town was burnt down in training exercises for various fire departments.
  • Keno City, Yukon
  • Kimberley, British Columbia, now incorporated
  • Kitimat, British Columbia, based around an aluminum smelter built by Alcoa's Canadian subsidiary Alcan. Also nearby is Kemano which accompanies the Kemano powerhouse of the
  • Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador developed by the Iron Ore Company of Canada
  • Logan Lake, British Columbia - copper mine
  • - a copper mining community located 4.5 kilometers from Britannia Beach, British Columbia, both of which served the Britannia Mine
  • Nanisivik, Nunavut, built to support a lead-zinc mine and abandoned after the mine's closure in 2002.
  • , near Youbou, British Columbia - former company town of Crown Zellerbach, a forestry company
  • Ocean Falls, British Columbia, a now-abandoned pulp mill town on the central BC Coast
  • Port Mellon, British Columbia, a pulp mill and town on the east shore of Howe Sound near the Langdale ferry terminal, which is near Sechelt
  • Terrace Bay, Ontario Built by Kimberly-Clark in 1947, Incorporated in 1959
  • Wabush, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Woodfibre, British Columbia a pulp mill town on the east shore of Howe Sound near Squamish
  • Walkerville, Ontario a distillery on the south shore of the Detroit River, founded by Hiram Walker
  • Timmins Ontario, copper mining town, currently self sustainable

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