CREIGHTON

NAME: CREIGHTON COUNTY: Na ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in Winter, Warm Summer. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: Killed in 1986 REMAINS: Foundations.

One of Ontario’s oldest and largest company mining towns is also a modern ghost town. Modern in the sense it became a ghost town as recently as 1988. Creighton was built by the Internal Nickel Company of Canada to serve the nickel boom of the early 1920s. It was home to more than 400 families until 1986 when the Company announced it was closing not only the mine but also the town itself. By 1988 the town was deserted, bulldozers razed buildings and homes leaving only the foundations and roads of what was once a town called Creighton. Submitted by: Henry Chenoweth

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