Wales
Vanished settlement · Canada
- Abandoned
- 1958
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 0
- Coordinates
- 45.010, -74.920
Why it was abandoned
🌊 Flooded
Detected automatically from the text: one of the Lost Villages flooded by the construction of the St Lawrence Seaway in Ontario
History
Wales is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of Ontario's Lost Villages, which were permanently flooded by the creation of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1958. The town was named for the Prince of Wales who visited the area during his Canadian tour of 1860. Wales was built on the land grant of Dr. James Stuart, of the King's Royal Regiment of New York. From 1810 to 1957, five generations of the Stuart family lived on this property.