There were plenty of towns set up purely for ruthlessly exploiting resources and then when the resources were gone the town closed up. On the coast these were o

There were plenty of towns set up purely for ruthlessly exploiting resources and then when the resources were gone the town closed up. On the coast these were often whaling towns or salmon fishing canning towns. In the interior it was mining. Barkerville is an extremely well preserved olde gold rush mining town and well worth a visit if one visits the interior of BC. https://www.barkerville.ca/ https://www.barkerville.ca/