ANYOX

ANYOX

Is a ghost town and pretty much largely abandoned and in ruins located just southeast of Stewart on the shores of Observatory Inlet in the remote confines of Northwest British Columbia. Kind of like other British Columbia ghost towns like Phoenix and Cassiar, Anyox was a small company-owned mining town that was completely reiled on mining of copper and other minerals. In the early 1900s, Anyox grew to a population of about 3,000 residents as rich deposits of copper and other valuable metals were found and mined at the nearby mountains. The mine was owned by the Granby Company which operated the copper mines in Granisle as well as both the mines in Grand Forks and Phoenix. However, Anyox’s heyday was short-lived as forest fires in 1923 almost completely wiped out the entire community, but the town was soon rebuilt and work at the mine until the early-1930s, when the mines were played out and the workers left and in 1935 the min was completely shut down and Anyox became a ghost town in the process. Some old buildings from the community’s early days still exist, but are in very poor and reduced condition. In the 1940s operations were taken place to remove some of the steel and machinery from the town’s mine and a forest fire a second time, shortly thereafter, destroyed most of the remaining buildings. Anyox is from a Tsimshian word for “hidden water” where Anyox Creek flows into nearby Granby Bay where the mine was located nearby.