{"id":49261,"date":"2022-11-08T23:34:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T22:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=49261"},"modified":"2025-11-09T02:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T01:35:56","slug":"anyox-an-abandoned-military-cemetery-in-a-remote-ghost-town-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/08\/anyox-an-abandoned-military-cemetery-in-a-remote-ghost-town-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyox: an abandoned military cemetery in a remote ghost town of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Large countries like Canada and the United States have numerous abandoned towns, in many cases former mining operations.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/19\/highgate-the-exotic-and-gloomy-cemetery-where-170000-residents-of-london-rest\/\">Highgate: the exotic and gloomy cemetery where 170,000 residents of London rest<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/27\/kwajalein-a-huge-graveyard-with-about-160-world-war-ii-aircraft-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea\/\">Kwajalein: a huge graveyard with about 160 World War II aircraft at the bottom of the sea<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In the past few days, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ExploringwithWade\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exploring with Wade<\/a> has posted <strong>two very good about Anyox, one of Canada's largest ghost towns<\/strong>, located in a remote part of British Columbia, very close to the Canadian border. This town, inhabited by Europeans since the 18th century, was <strong>an important mining operation<\/strong> from which large quantities of copper were extracted. However, the depression of 1929 brought this town into decline. Finally, <strong>it was abandoned in 1935.<\/strong> Here is the first of the videos:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canada&#039;s Largest Ghost Town Few Have Ever Seen | Abandoned 1935 | Part 1 | Anyox BC \u30104K\u3011\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfbp2TrYlwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here the second:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exploration of Canada&#039;s Largest Ghost Town Continues | Part 2 | Anyox BC \u30104K\u3011\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hski-xVVMnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see below some screenshots of the videos, with some details that have caught my attention. One of the most surprising details is <strong>Falls Creek, a large multiple arch dam built with reinforced concrete<\/strong> between 1922 and 1924 and abandoned in 1935. Before its abandonment, it was bored to let the water pass and that some flood would not cause an overflow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52487506410_1de57108d7_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The old Anyox power plant<\/strong>, with the remains of its old machinery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52487506335_f977c95681_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the most impressive sequences of the first video is this <strong>overturned mining train<\/strong>, near one of the mine entrances. It is as if we are seeing a post-apocalyptic scenario.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52486555352_96bea1eefe_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the first video we see some <strong>images of the Anyox cemetery<\/strong>, which appears in more detail in the second video.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52487586478_4bf6821a21_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the tombs is tilted and seems to have been dug out of the ground<\/strong>, perhaps due to a landslide caused by the rains.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52486541612_4038b0991b_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Veterans from Anyox who fought in the World War I are buried in the cemetery<\/strong>. It is sad to see these tombs so abandoned.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52486541522_616a5af028_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The graves of veterans are decorated with Tommy helmets made of cement<\/strong>. It is the classic plate-shaped military helmet worn by the British, Canadians and Americans in both world wars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52487506305_d194c57057_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the graves of veterans there is also one with the text in the Serbo-Croatian language<\/strong>, probably a combatant who fought in the army of the Kingdom of Serbia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52487318664_bec24024b1_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Large countries like Canada and the United States have numerous abandoned towns, in many cases former mining operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11549,16885],"tags":[17804,1479,15298],"class_list":["post-49261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-history","category-populations","tag-anyox","tag-canada","tag-world-war-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}