Ghost Town of Jackfish Ontario

Ghost Town of Jackfish Ontario

in the video ’ Under the Shadow of the Gods’ Lake Superior
you can see footage of Jackfish in actual operation

below info borrowed from Wiki’:

Jackfish is a ghost town in northern Ontario, Canada, located on the north shore of Lake Superior near of Terrace Bay.

The last spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) track between Montreal and Winnipeg was driven in west of Jackfish on May 16, 1885. Laying one particular mile of railway in this area is said to have cost $700,000.

Jackfish was established as a train order station on the CPR following the period of railway construction between 1883 and 1885. Initially a siding or passing track was built at this location to allow east and westbound trains to operate on the single track main line. An electrical telegraph enabled the station operator to control the movement of trains with information received from a train dispatcher.

With its location as a railway siding, along a beach area, amongst Lake Superior’s otherwise rocky shoreline, Jackfish became a port of commercial fishing. Fish were caught here and packed in ice and loaded aboard trains bound for markets in Toronto and Montreal.

During World War II, young Canadian men of Japanese origin from British Columbia were sent to road construction camps, including one at Jackfish, to work on the construction of the Trans-Canada Highway.

The Lakeview Hotel at Jackfish, built at the end of the 19th century, remained a popular stopping place during the summer for a number of years. The hotel burned down in 1960 and the town site was abandoned by 1963.