CORDOVA

NAME: CORDOVA COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall

COMMENTS: REMAINS: While a number of early buildings remain occupied, a number of other buildings are gone and Cordova stands as a ghost of the mine fields.

Around the turn of the beginning of the 1900s, Cordova was one of Ontario’s leading gold producers. The gold rush to the Highlands of Hastings began in the year 1866. But many of the deposits proved difficult to work and other were outright fraudulent, the bubble burst and the mining camps turned into ghost towns. Improved technology allowed mining to resume during the 1890s with some of the more important mines located near Cordova. Between 1892 and 1917, two of the larger mines produced a combined 23,000 ounces of gold. By the 1940s all mining in the Cordova area had stopped and the mines closed.

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