ZEBALLOS

ZEBALLOS

Is a small deep-sea port community located on the delta of Zeballos Inlet, an arm of Nootka Sound on the Western Coast of Vancouver Island. It appeared unexpectedly in 1936-1936 due to a gold rush and the opening of several mines. During the gold rush, $13,000,000 worth of gold bricks was shipped out of Zeballos and because of this (even though it varies) the population grew to about 5,000 people. During World War (WWII), Zeballos began to lose many of the mine’s employees The last gold mine was shut down in 1948 and the community was just about to become a ghost town when an iron mine opened in 1962 and operated until 1969 when that too shut down. Since then, Zeballos still survives and is now a small logging community as well as been named from Ciriaco Cevallos, one of Spanish naval officers who founded Zeballos Inlet in 1791. Following the demise of the Kootenay region mining community of Zincton in the1930s, Zeballos is the only community in British Columbia that starts with “z”, that is still in existence Zeballos wasn’t linked with other communities on Western Vancouver Island until 1970 when a small road was built, linking the community with small towns, such as Port McNeill and Woss. 

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