How Canada Erased an Entire Iron City From the Map: Gagnon, Quebec
Gagnon was a real modern city - a hospital, schools, an arena, apartment blocks and a shopping centre, home to more than 4,000 people, carved out of the Quebec wilderness in 1960 to mine iron ore. When the ore ran out and iron prices crashed, the company did not just close Gagnon; it demolished it. By 1985 the town was gone, and today a lonely stretch of boulevard running through the forest is almost all that is left. What you'll learn: How Quebec Cartier Mining built an instant iron city in the remote Cote-Nord What life was like in a fly-in company town of over 4,000 people Why the 1982 iron crisis doomed Gagnon and the mines around it Why the entire town was razed and what a traveller finds on the site now Educational and historical content. Key sources: Gagnon, Québec - Wikipedia Québec Cartier Mining Company - Wikipedia Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec - «Compagnie minière Québec Cartier» Cartier Railway - historical archive (chemindefercartier.wordpress.com) La Presse - «La minière Québec Cartier fête ses 50 ans» (2009) and other sources #history #Canada #Gagnon #Quebec #ghosttown
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