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[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Kitsault+%2C+BC&ia=web&iaxm...
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(At the risk of sounding uninformed) - why?
Canada likes to ship its oil out that way, esp to Asia. Pipelines from Alberta to BC are a political minefield but buying real-estate and then waiting for the politics to “blow-over” is apparently a thing that happens a lot.
If you're referring to Trans Mountain, that pipeline upgrade/expansion terminates in Burnaby, which is a suburb of Vancouver.
For other interesting company-owned ghost towns on the coast, see also Anyox and Ocean Falls. Anyox is relatively close to Kitsault and is worth reading about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyox
There's also Stewart, which is north of these and which has quite a storied mining history that's still being written (the "Golden Triangle" of BC).
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From the article: >Not only a ghost town, but a ghost town that was built for $50 million in 1981... >It is a long way from any major city, and not accessible by road... Edit: From Wikipedia... >In 2004, the ghost town was bought by Indian-Canadian businessman Krishnan Suthanthiran for $5.7 million; he has spent $2 million maintaining the town.[2] In the end, he would have spent over $20 million more to fully update…
> and not accessible by road... That doesn't seem to be true: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Port+Edward,+BC,+Canada/Kits...
Out of curiosity I looked it up on a map [1]. It appears two of the closest settlements [2],[3] are also ghost towns or otherwise pretty much abandoned. Kind of nice to know there are habitable but uninhabited places left in the world. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Kitsault+%2C+BC&ia=web&iaxm... [2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Arm,_British_Columbia [3] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyox
FYI: This Justin McElroy is a respected Canadian journalist. He is not closely related to the Justin McElroy of MBMBAM though they do look very similar.
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> and not accessible by road... That doesn't seem to be true: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Port+Edward,+BC,+Canada/Kits...
The author even mentions driving in "Which means, for a fee, you can drive two hours down a barely passable road. The caretakers will open the locked gates"
Out of curiosity I looked it up on a map [1]. It appears two of the closest settlements [2],[3] are also ghost towns or otherwise pretty much abandoned. Kind of nice to know there are habitable but uninhabited places left in the world. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Kitsault+%2C+BC&ia=web&iaxm... [2] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Arm,_British_Columbia [3] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyox
FYI: This Justin McElroy is a respected Canadian journalist. He is not closely related to the Justin McElroy of MBMBAM though they do look very similar.
Why the italics on 'closely'?