Ben-My-Chree
Ghost town · Canada
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 59.414, -134.453
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: The Wall Street crash of 1929 and the Great Depression began the resort's decline, and it closed in 1956.
History
Ben-My-Chree is a famous former hunting and fishing lodge, steamboat landing and small resort in Northern British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the southwest end of Taku Arm, Tagish Lake in the Atlin District in the extreme northwest of the province, and is closer to the Yukon than the rest of the province. The Wall Street crash of 1929 and the Great Depression began the resort's decline, and it closed in 1956. The site is now a private residence being reclaimed by wilderness.