QUEBEC HARBOUR

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

COMMENTS: REMAINS: Most of the fishing village still stands.

The fishing ghost town of Quebec Harbour on Michipicoten Island requires a trip across the unpredictable water of Lake Superior. Slightly larger than Gargantua, Quebec Harbour contained a net shed, ice house, a cook house, blacksmith shop, and a least a half dozen cabins. On the north shore, a copper mine began operating in the 1840s. It consisted of a smelter, crushing house and a number of boarding houses. By the 1930s, it was a ghost town.

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