Decommissioned town on Hudson Bay?

[Max Wedge]

 
Hello northern neighbors! I remember reading a ride report that went through a town that was no longer going to serviced, and was essentially decommissioned. I thought it was on Hudson Bay somewhere, but my google-powers are weak right now, and I can't seem to find it.
Anyone?

[Acadian Rider]

I did a Ride Report in 2009 for a trip to Newfoundland that included some pictures of a community that was displaced.  

Here's the link to the full report.  http://www.sport-touring.net/forums/index.php/topic,44859.msg1027392.html#msg1027392

Here's 3 pictures.  One is the warning sign, one the the road to get there and one shows some of the buildings.  

[birdrunner]

There was another by an American in Newfoundland.

I remember they walked into a house that was still being used, not realizing that no one locked their doors there.

[Meemuh]

Huh...real life modern ghost towns.

Kind of a crazy thought.

[Meemuh]

Here's what I found - interesting, plus a couple other relocated communities are mentioned at the bottom.
http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2004/mpa/0213n05.htm

[Max Wedge]

It may have been Big Brook I was thinking of, the original RR had pictures with outboard motors still sitting in a shed, I think.

[Acadian Rider]

I think the RR you are referring to is SWriverstone's RR when he went to Newfoundland in 2006 just before the STN crash.  He's the reason I knew of Big Brook.  The reason that I remember his RR so well is that he slept in our home for two nights on the way there and one night on the way back.  

I remember one of his pictures being furniture in a house but I don't remember pictures of outboard motors sitting in a shed.  

When I was in Big Brook I spoke to someone who was hanging around there and he told me that the houses that are still there are used as camps sometimes.  I don't remember all of the conversation but perhaps he meant hunting or fishing camps.  

[Mac]

Why would they decomission a town? Not enough people wanted to live there?

[birdrunner]

Why would they decomission a town? Not enough people wanted to live there?

Too expensive to suppy infrastructure.  The province basically said "No more money will be spent here, no roads, electricity, ambulance, mail etc.   There are some people who refuse to move.

[Aero]

I can see why they don't want to spend money on such a remote town. A slightly different situation, but I heard that people are talking about downsizing some of the cities and towns in the Detroit area because there simply aren't enough people living there now to justify the urban sprawl now the the car industry has downsized. Better having a smaller area to service without empty buildings everywhere.

[Acadian Rider]

"Big Brook" being more recent here's a bit of history on the resettlements.  


http://www.mun.ca/mha/resettlement/rs_intro.php

[PatM]

A lot of the small villages around Hudson Bay and James Bay are built on permafrost (frozen ground).
Normally, only the top part melts in the summer but with the global warming thing, the under layer, the one that's not supposed to melt is actually melting.
When you build on frozen ground, you dig a bit, insulate and build on top of it. With that under layer melting, there are now risks of buildings sinking and land slides.

[Baz]

This does not apply to anything near Husdon bay but.....

There were quite a few cold war towns that were built in the North due to the Distant Early Warning system, (DEW sites) Which were radar stations. That technology became obsolete so everything was shut down.

Unfortunately, all of the sites are heavily contaminated by PCB's and there is still quite a large fight on who should pay for the cleanup.

I met a Gov. Biologist once who was studying all the sites. He told me some pretty good stories of the history, but sadly all of the sites were just abandoned with many gallons of PCB laced oils,  and many other nasty chemicals contaminating the ground.






 

[Meemuh]

This does not apply to anything near Husdon bay but.....

There were quite a few cold war towns that were built in the North due to the Distant Early Warning system, (DEW sites) Which were radar stations. That technology became obsolete so everything was shut down.

Unfortunately, all of the sites are heavily contaminated by PCB's and there is still quite a large fight on who should pay for the cleanup.

I met a Gov. Biologist once who was studying all the sites. He told me some pretty good stories of the history, but sadly all of the sites were just abandoned with many gallons of PCB laced oils,  and many other nasty chemicals contaminating the ground.






 

Nothing like some naturally aged barrels to make for a nice landscape photo.
Is that a rusty skull on the left side of the picture?

[bubba zanetti]

The "North" as an ecosystem is very unforgiving. You can see dozer marks in the north that were created years ago from the air. Fragile environment it is.