10 Most Isolated Towns In Canada .

[@scottgammer5339]

I have traveled all over BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There are an incredible number of Isolated towns in these provinces. If you do another video please include as many photos and videos of the actual towns and surrounding locations as possible. To tell you the truth, it just makes me close my eyes look back and smile! Canada is so blessed to have these little speckles of culture and strange beauty, from coast to coast!

[@nathanadrian7797]

Larger than the U.S.A. with only one tenth the population. You can always find a place to be alone in Canada. (We also have big cities if that's your pleasure)

[@carolconny2763]

I actually looked into some of these isolated communities around Hudson Bay. A 800 square foot clapboard house (more like shack) sells for average USD 300,000 dollars. I was shocked at the high cost of these homes. Obviously people are desperate to get out of the cities or away from the direct energy weapon attacks.

[@maxshea1829]

@@carolconny2763 Perhaps the price subarctic shack has to do with red tape, taxes, fees, and all kinds of other stuff.

[@KrisMakesThings]

Yes I agree! Im from BC

[@sommebuddy]

@@nathanadrian7797 80 percent of the population lives within a 100 miles of the border.....

[@livescript4462]

Feels weird having lived in 2 of these towns not thinking they were that secluded

[@dannie1989]

which ones? Im from Australia and Ive been to two of them, it would be funny if they were the same ones

[@keithpeden7664]

@@dannie1989 Thanks for visiting Canada. I'm guessing but pretty sure you've both been to Fort Nelson and Watson Lake on this list. They are still functioning as service centres for Alaska Highway tourism and/or oil& gas. Most of the others are either indigenous settlements or likely to vanish due to changing industry effects. Alert is a military base we aren't even allowed in. Every settlement in Nunavut is fly-in only; no roads there. The only Canadian road to the Arctic Ocean is the Dempster. No roads to Hudson Bay. Quebec has some hydroelectric service roads to James Bay. Anything north of Pickle Lake in Ontario is mostly winter road to First Nations. Churchill and Moosonee have rail but no road. Places on the BC coast like Ocean Falls have limited ferries only. Anything that is fly-in isolated is going to cost big bucks to live there.

[@WorldAccordingToBriggs]

So, it's pronounced "NewFin-land" I knew this years ago not sure why I kept saying New Foundland. I did have a hockey buddy from there who explained that to me years ago. I guess I forgot while I was speaking.

[@jaybee608]

First thing I said!

[@Blakpepa]

Put the video on pause to correct you...had to as it's my responsibility as a Canadian to check Americans who pronounce our city and provinces names wrong😂

[@outbackigloo6489]

I try to pronounce it as ew-fund-LAND\, stressing the final syllable.

[@MillionMileDrive]

@@outbackigloo6489 That's how I've always pronounced it but I grew up in BC. Different regions pronounce things differently. I was baffled when someone from Atlantic Canada sked me for "bat trees"

[@keithng2517]

I always heard and called it New-fun-land., get it New FunLand

[@Milnoc]

Briggs walks into a Newfoundland bar. He's never heard from again. 🤣

[@billfarley9167]

A Newfie joke: An American walking around town looking a tad lost. Comes up to a local and asks, "Pardon me sir, could you tell me the fastest way to Deer Lake?" Newfie: "Well are you walkin' or drivin" me son?" "Driving" says the American. Newfie: "Well that's the fastest way!"

[@thathrguy]

Some newfie woman netted him and dragged him home lolol

[@niftytwo]

GREAT STORY TO HEAR OF. Aussies and Canadians but have never actually met. God Bless. Nifty and Marg.

[@timedone8502]

Canadians here. It concerns me that some communities won’t be able to sustain themselves. At the same time, I am happy that we still have space for nature to live and thrive with us.

[@urbanwarchief]

You underestimate the hardiness of folks here

[@southernpacific7200]

I like what your doing, especially bringing Canada into the topic.

[@ordyhorizonrivieredunord712]

especially since FBI asks for the help of the RCMP bringing Canada into the topic of someone sending poisonous letter to president of USA from Canada...🎡...

[@60bigmoe]

Travelling across the Canadian prairies, I noticed something strange; every 25 - 30 miles or so there's a small town, seemingly for no particular reason. The predominant common features of these small towns seem to be a church, a water tower, a grain elevator, a combination general store/gas pump/post office, a beer parlor, and a coffee shop where farmers sit and bull shit for hours. Also, perhaps they would have a one-room school. Then I learned why these small towns existed so close together; they had to be that close together so that every farmer would be able to take their crop to the nearest grain elevator by horse and wagon and get back home before dark. That made prefect sense. That's also why there's so damned many railway crossing on all these gravel roads. Each grain elevator needs to be accessible to a railway hopper car.

[@travisholte3241]

Initially us was every 6 miles the railroad set up a settlement for those reasons. But most have nothing anymore, maybe one house or a community hall or sometimes just a sign if the buildings have all fallen

[@MooseJawKim]

I am from Moose Jaw and know what you mean. These towns are spaced exactly the distance that a team of horses could travel in a day and get back home, or travel from point to point.

[@CM-zl2jw]

It’s a railroad thing

[@michelleready]

Nice video! Love from Gruenthal Saskatchewan (around 100 people). -55 C today with the wind. (BTW it's pronounced Newfinlan. :)

[@edwardfrench945]

Looking forward to watching this now. I’m looking at moving from London. Canada is suppose to be stunning! Thanks Briggs

[@edwardfrench945]

Adymn Sani good point and it’s now at the top of my list. London’s not that cold so thank you very much.

[@robertsitch1415]

Canada has a City called London too.

[@BlazinTexan]

London, ON? Isn’t that sorta close to Windsor, ON and Detroit border

[@robertsitch1415]

@@BlazinTexan it's a bit shorter drive to Sarnia and Port Huron though.

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

@@robertsitch1415 It is in Ontario. I think it was called Berlin before the war.

[@evalynchuran8684]

Uluhuktuk, NWT on Hollman Island. Artic Circle. Furtherst most northern golf course in the world. Great video.

[@raymondmartin6737]

I drove with my parents from the NYC area to Vancouver for Expo 86 in Sep. Oct. 1986, and back through the US from Seattle to home in a 3 week trip of about 7000 miles, through the vast open spaces and Canadian Rockies, which was very interesting. Weather was pretty cool in 🇨🇦 🍁, and the North- Western US by mid to late Sep. and in early Oct. Very scenic to see up close, such as Yellowstone, Custer's Battlefield, Devils Tower and Mt Rushmore.

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

I drove from Montreal to Vancouver in '58. No pavement after Lake Superior. Just graded dirt for a few thousand miles.

[@michaeltutty1540]

@@thenevadadesertrat2713 Even better, that gravel road was the TransCanada Highway, the only route that takes cars and trucks from Newfoundland to British Columbia, spanning some 5½ time zones.

[@SherryEllesson]

Briggs, your #1 brought back great memories. In my 20s, I was part of a 5-piece band out of Cali that went on a tour up through BC (6-8 weeks in each place as "house band") and Watson Lake was our northernmost gig. The people there were wonderful - they made up for the cold outside. I still have a pic of myself with a "big dog" beside me who'd been tugging on my mitten when I was out on a walk. The hotel desk clerk told me later it was a timber wolf (clearly not a hungry one). btw Ft Nelson was also on our trip headed north from Vancouver, and the people who ran a "hotel" that was a large house trailer sent us on our way with bagged lunches when we left. Amazing people, amazing natural scenery.

[@patriciagallagher3793]

Thank you for this lovely video of some beautiful Canadian Wilderness. I'm Canadian lived here all my life almost 70 years in south and central Ontario. I have never heard it called the Canadian "outback" before. I have friends and family from all over Canada Newfoundland & Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta. We always call it the Canadian wilderness and have always associated the outback with Australia.

[@d.gillis9660]

So true the Canadian Wilderness and Our Wildlife we love beauty in God's Country and Respect Mother Nature and always believe in the Wonder's of the Sky.

[@justchillinout2002]

Being from Alberta, I pronounce Newfoundland like this - Fort McMurray! If you don't know, you don't know. HA

[@chuckles7524]

Ha ha ha...I know😉

[@xcrazily]

HA!

[@ruths1010videoclips]

🤣🤣👍

[@crashandburngaming5103]

Lol, true dat I am from edmonchuck

[@airborne_12v]

Awesome people!

[@chrisvickers7928]

I think the most isolated town in Canada I lived in was Pine Point NWT, on the south shore of Great Slave Lake. It existed because of a lead-zinc mine and I was there in the summer of 1978 doing mining exploration. It had a population then of 2000 people with 4 churches, and ice rink, and a swimming pool. It also had a hotel and bar and a legion. We found no new ore reserves during our summer and the mine closed 8 years later with the town not only abandoned but all of the buildings removed and transported out of there. My main memories are of swamps, spectacular quantities of black flies, and playing soccer or frisbee at 1 AM after the bar closed.

[@pth6060]

I was in Pine Point in the early stages of the shut down, very sad . Nice little town.

[@valerieradford4593]

Had a friend who moved there with his family - my wife drove there to help . They told me about golfing at a tar sands course for 24 hours tournament!! So interesting! We live in North West Ontario 100 miles north of Trans Canada highway. We are located on the furthest north portion of the King’s highway (most northerly traffic light in Ontario) Red Lake ON- RR

[@buckwhile7311]

for any Americans these are huge numbers of blackflies, it's wild numbers but it gives such meaning to the times of year you can see nicer weather without them

[@chrisvickers7928]

@@buckwhile7311 Yeah, little buggers which were 1/2 mouth. After a week of of 30+C temps they had multiplied to the point where it seemed like fog and you couldn't see more than 100'. Despite the heat we were fully clothed and sealed our pant legs, shirtsleeves, and collars shut with black electrical tape. Hands and faces were covered in Repex, 90% DEET. It melted the electrical tape on contact. The black fly would bump into you, not like the smell, and fly away only to return moments later. Eventually they would suicide into your mouth, nose, eyes, or ears. You couldn't rub your eyes to get them out because the stuff on your hands. In your ears they'd get stuck in the ear wax and rev their little motors trying to escape. Don't even think about what happened when you had to take a leak.

[@slypear]

This Newfie loved this! Thanks, man~

[@crush42mash6]

Canada is breathtaking from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic coast is beautiful! I’ve travelled to about 30 different countries and I always come back and stare at the Rocky Mountains! 🇨🇦

[@karstenfuglsang1638]

Yes blows my mind that Take Care from Toronto Canada eh haha

[@swapnilauthorvlogs2624]

@@karstenfuglsang1638 Woow Canadian add me on whatsapp [phone] lets talk about cultures ,mind and magical earth😊

[@eliciaeldridge3452]

Yes it is, I truly think the East coast is the most beautiful and has such humble and friendly people.

[@ml.2770]

It's even more stunning from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast.

[@peleeprepper]

Pretty neat! We live on Pelee Island, the southern most inhabited spot in 🇨🇦 🍁. We have roughly 165 folks here year round and are situated in the middle of Lake Erie. You might want to visit when the border reopens! 👍

[@Reddbeaver]

That's very interesting, thanks for sharing. Is it true there are poisonous species of snakes there?

[@peleeprepper]

There are no longer any poisonous snakes on the island. We have quite a few species at risk though, like the Blue Racer. 🐍

[@carlredmon5885]

Canada has always been interesting to me. Thanks for this video 🇨🇦

[@michaeljjohnson6894]

Port Hardy is over 200Km from the nearest traffic light. We do have two new solar powered pedestrian crossings now. All other street crossings are stop signs without cameras. Woohoo, progress. One A&W, a Save-On Foods and a swimming pool plus a ferry terminal to other more remote towns.

[@marcpikas2859]

Hope to visit in the next couple of years. Will take the ferry to Prince Rupert on the way to the Yukon and northern BC. Long drive from the shores of the St-Lawrence but sure worth it.

[@Threshingfloor814]

Newfin' LAND! No screech for you!

[@ticklemeelmo73]

I cringed when he said new-FOUND-land.

[@JERios-wv8lx]

@@ticklemeelmo73 DON'T BE UPSET....FOR SOME PEOPLE WATCHING THIS VIDEO IT REALLY IS A "NEW FOUND LAND". LOL

[@ricknelson576]

I beg to differ, How do you spell it : New/found/land. You are wrong sir. We in our laziness just call it Newfinland.

[@Threshingfloor814]

@@ricknelson576 That's what I heard while living up in Springdale. Of course, I was smashed every night at those kitchen parties.

[@thathrguy]

@@ricknelson576 so true

[@moocyfarus8549]

We have lots of little tiny settlements all over the south of under 200 people if you didn't have to just pick out places that are remote in the North. Lots and lots of very small places!!! And lots of no one anywhere, IT'S FANTASTIC!!!

[@reannaholdford2413]

having a nice sandy beach is actually harder to come by in NL than you think, yes we’re an island but most shorelines are rocky or not accessible

[@kurtischopty4925]

Vancouver, BC resident here. You could do a top 10 list just on BC alone. Bralorne, Gold Bridge, Mica Creek, Kitsault, Stewart, Hartley Bay, Bella Bella, Ocean Falls, Atlin or really anything on highway 20 or Stewart-Cassiar highway 37. I've been on both a few times. Sure can get that lonesome feeling on there.

[@eyetrollin710]

I had one of the most horrible things of my life followed with the second most horrible thing of my life happen on that Highway and you know what the only thing that made me feel good was the mountains and the Wilderness that stretched on forever.... but I'm probably biased because 10 years prior to that horrible day I had spent several seasons flying geophysical surveys over mountains and Glaciers all over that area, so throat all of it I was staring at places I greatly missed and I felt home and protected

[@blue9multimediagroup]

"It has a beach." That is beyond funny for no reason other than the simplicity and I am beyond dead 🤣 [SF]

[@markhinton250]

Good to know I'm not the only person who's sides hurt from laughing too hard after hearing that 🤣 🤣🤣🤣 Now I'm going to have to look the place up on Wikipedia. Edit: Evidently a Wikipedia nerd watched this video, because I looked it up. It's got a bit more information, but is still marked as a stub article.

[@ruthie5126]

Love your channel! You do a great job of giving information and make it entertaining.

[@Teneighty234]

Atlin B.C. I was sure it was gunna make the list! Telegraph creek B.C. is a must see, both of those places are dead end roads and incredible destinations for the adventurous.

[@Nate-mq4rh]

Atlin is only like a 2hr drive from Whitehorse

[@yves8639]

Great one Briggs!

[@jessiejerome7482]

Hey there ! great vid thanks! always fun to learn about these random isolated locations. A weird thing about Newfoundland is how you pronounce it. Instead of pronounced how is written it is pronounced "Knew-fin-land" which I don't know why haven't looked it up, I just know that as a Canadian that's how we pronounce it

[@legithacksource2324]

Moosenee/Moose Factory is pretty secluded. No roads, only train and Airport, my hometown (Timmins) is the nearest city. I'd like to see you take a look at Moosenee and many other places in Northern Ontario, would appreciate the love. Keep up the good work!

[@WorldAccordingToBriggs]

Thanks for sharing!

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

I got to Toronto by train from Quebec. I think it was '57 or '58. As I was leaving the central station through a tunnel my friend said to me look up front it is Elvis. I said who is Elvis? He replied Elvis Presley. It was him alright because I yelled Elvis and he turned and waved at us.

[@joywebster2678]

Worked there! Big decline over being there as a student Nurse to working there in 2012. Both in Moose Factory and Moosenee. Train service reduction, province still making false promises of a road, and new hospital.

[@natealwine213]

Yes! When I canoed there from Lake Superior in the 1990's I believe Moosonee was the largest town in the world with no roads going to it. I thought it was something like 2,000 residents at that point. Only access was by the Polar Bear Express railway. I would love to see this one included!

[@lusl1094]

Manitouwadge Ontario. The closest set of traffic lights is our hours awa in Thunder-Bay, where its 8 hours to the clisest city, wither Winnipeg of Sault-Ste Marie. Probably the most isolated City in North America.

[@thehammer7802]

Went through Watson Lake and Fort Nelson B.C. six times last year on my way to Dawson City Yukon from Calgary it takes roughly three days with stops , stayed twice over night in Watson Lake and Fort Nelson and Fort St. Johns B.C . would live in that area in a heart beat.

[@Nate-mq4rh]

Idk man Fort Nelly and Watson are rough towns

[@dixiedaledixon]

You are an exceptional online explorer. Your commentary is great. Hghlighting these very remote places is a mission not too many would have delved into. I think the people who inhabit these isolated outposts hold the distinction of being "unique", that's for sure.

[@billfarley9167]

Sorry, we see city people as unique!

[@kirstenhorte5488]

Hi! Can you please do a feature of Old Crow, up in the Yukon, where I'm from? You have to get there by air plane, no roads, and is very up north in the Yukon. Thanks!

[@c.julien8266]

A couple of northern towns (both at the end of the road)...Lynn Lake, Manitoba is a town that literally moved. Formerly located 160 miles south of its current location; it was called Sherridon. When the ore ran out, they moved the town north to another ore body. They set up the new townsite and called it Lynn Lake. It is 700 air miles from Winnipeg. Another less remote town is Pickle Lake, Ontario. Again at the end of the road.

[@troymorais9541]

Is that you Claude? Thanks for mentioning Lynn Lake. It saved me from having too. LOL

[@c.julien8266]

@@troymorais9541 Hey there....yes it is me. Hope all is well with you. I miss what Lynn Lake was back in the day. Such a great place to grow up.

[@garybrumagin2490]

Enjoyed this one. I like the idea of doing another of towns that are at least accessible by road so someday we can go visit with the locals and tell them we heard about them on your channel. We loved our little bit of travel last year to Canada and are looking forward to more of it when we're allowed back in.

[@s66458---]

I have a cabin in Northern Saskatchewan. There are tonnes of remote communities in the north. Many are fly in only. Which makes life really expensive. Most are indigenous. A few I have visited. Basically it is just about cheaper to fly into the closest city, buy your stuff and turn around rather than spend the crazy amount on local goods. There are about 3 roads north that are paved, until a certain point then goes down to gravel, then sometimes ice roads or dirt tracks that you are not sure are roads. People forget how remote these places are. Not American remote. I mean 2 hrs drive from your nearest grocery store or at least something most people would consider a grocery store. It is super beautiful and the northern lights make me catch my breath every time I see them.

[@Thebohemiangirl1]

Hello from Toronto, here you wouldn't dream of seeing the beautiful Northern Lights.

[@jenniferwhite746]

Love it! How about all the towns that are ferry access only. I am not taking about the entirety of Vancouver Island, I mean the secluded town that you have to take public ferry's to get there. For instance, I live near Powell River BC which is on the mainland yet the only way to get here is by taking 2 ferry boats. One from Horseshoe Bay (North Vancouver) to Gibsons (Hwy101). Then drive 72km (Hwy 101) to Earls Cove, get on another ferryboat (55 minutes) to Sultry Bay (back on Hwy 101) from there it's about 26km to Powell River. Anyhow, those types of isolated areas. Thanks for sharing.

[@naomiemoore5725]

Holy cow! Bet it is drop dead beautiful though. 🇨🇦

[@jenniferwhite746]

@@naomiemoore5725 yes it is. I have a beautiful ocean view. I can see the snow capped mountains of Vancouver Island from here. Lots of whale to sea too. Plus, not one confirmed case of covid here either.

[@naomiemoore5725]

@@jenniferwhite746 Sounds like heaven to me. No COVID, that's impressive. And so happy for all of you. Complete opposite where I live.

[@billfarley9167]

The Sunshine Coast is gorgeous.

[@gayled3059]

Isn't "Sultry Bay" actually spelled "saltery Bay"? If anyone's looking it up on a map they'll never find it!

[@pepperlalonde3854]

If you continue up the coast from Kegaska towards Labrador there are maybe 12 - 15 isolated villages. All of them probably have under 300 residents by now. One village actually got shut down a few years back. I am from one of those towns and have an Aunt who still lives in Kegaska. No roads connecting most of them.

[@robertreisner6119]

Watson Lake and Ft Nelson are on the Alcan Highway and after leaving the Anchorage area they are nice places to get out and stretch your legs and find a burger. Summit Lake is even more spar but do offer food, it too is on the Highway between Whitehorse and Beaver Creek Station. I have traveled this route out on several occasions.

[@JJJJ-gl2uf]

There are so many of these places in Canada they can't all be listed. I've been to a couple of them and lived in Churchill as a young boy. I spent much of 2020 exploring the abandoned towns in Central Ontario and I love the quiet atmosphere. You don't need to go far off the highway or beaten track to find solitude in this country, and I'm sure the same can be said of the US.

[@TheJonnieredeyez]

Canada is larger with roughly a tenth of the population. Most of the country is within 2 hours of the U.S. border. Potential for abandoned towns should go to Canada.

[@CM-zl2jw]

How is it possible you did anything in 2020?

[@alexanderkimmerly9523]

As a canadian i appreciate you foing a video like this

[@woogieluv2304]

So I’m not even remotely interested in this topic, but I am so glad I watched it because you made me laugh so much!!! Thank you I needed that! 🤣😊

[@mess0965]

🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 Once the border is open again, I will be back. 🇺🇲

[@Just-me-Laura]

And we will be back there 😊 🇨🇦❤🇺🇸

[@RevivedAccountXP]

Randy Sagoo Trump 2020

[@thesuperostrich]

Randy Sagoo will you accept American refugees?

[@Just-me-Laura]

@@thesuperostrich with open arms. 🤗

[@michelleready]

Love Love Love American people. Kind, warm, over-sharers but in the best way.

[@andrewchapman4313]

Came to watch this video because of the Christmas request you gave, hopefully my view helps you out!

[@AdrianLeeMagill]

Great video! For the next one, try Nakusp, British Columbia. There's also Spuzzum, but being that you could almost see the "Welcome to" and "Now Leaving" signs in the same photo, there might not be too much info on that one... (I know. "Nakusp and Spuzzum" kinda sounds like an accounting firm...)

[@graememceachren1118]

Spuzzum is beyond Hope (BC) Good hunting. Great views.

[@AdrianLeeMagill]

@@graememceachren1118 Yeah, I drove through it a few times, but blinked so I missed it...

[@jenniferryersejones9876]

Sad I missed this upload when it first came out. Thanks, Briggs!

[@20thcenturytunes]

Somehow I find myself strangely attracted to isolation

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

I am in Nevada. If you want isolation we have it. I recommend Pickhandle Gulch (real name) now called Metallic. Look at it with Google Earth.

[@Irongaint]

I’m attracted to isolation because humans are annoying

[@klondikechris]

I spent 2 years in Alert, on 5 trips, which is about 4 too many! In the Klondike now, 1000km NW of Watson Lake. I do love living in remote places! I have lived in Newfoundland, which has loads of cute little outports. Yukon is mostly remote - I am 2 hours from the next place, which has 40 people.

[@sommebuddy]

Military i take it?

[@klondikechris]

@@sommebuddy Yes. 25 yearx full time, and a Canadian Ranger now.

[@AslanKyoya1776]

Canada really fascinates me, especially the tiny isolated towns, the ones very far to the North interest me the most. I would never live there though, I hate the cold but snow is pretty so I’ll put up with it for a short time.

[@marquitossotelo]

Please, make a video of the best towns in Canada

[@thathrguy]

The best town in Canada is St.John's. It is also the oldest town in north america (disputed). Lots of videos on St.John's on youtube

[@robertmacdonald2472]

@@thathrguy st. John's s definitely the city with the worst weather in Canada but not the best city in my opinion

[@nathanadrian7797]

Kaslo, B.C.

[@thathrguy]

@Awesome Randomguy It depends on your lifestyle. if you like travelling abroad or have specific food requirements it can be a little pricy in the rural areas. in general the free health care and social programs more than make up for the higher taxes.

[@somalicryotocurrency7847]

Edmonton alberta is the best

[@reneeangele4766]

i met my husband in Pickle Lake, good luck finding that one :)

[@billfarley9167]

Been there. NW Ontario - gold mine.

[@useryggfdcc]

I met my newfie wife in Thompson, Manitoba. Me from South Africa.

[@joywebster2678]

OPP threatened to send my husband there a few times...we stayed in Geraldton.

[@FeldwebelWolfenstool]

...have two friends that live there...

[@stevetheriault4164]

Worked there for a paving company miller

[@j.skemez9403]

Ray & Pat findorff I’m from St bernard LOL That’s amazing y’all went so far. I’m still down hea lol Glad y’all y’all made it out of there alive Cheers to you guys 👍🏽

[@eurodoc6343]

It amazes me even how isolated western and eastern Canada are from each other. For example, trying plotting the driving time to get from Toronto to the western border of Ontario, then try a similar east-west change of longtitude along the US interstate system. The driving time difference is huge.

[@mushroomsteve]

To go from Toronto to western Ontario, you also have to drive a lot further north. So a comparable east-west route distance wise in the US would be to go from Cleveland to Minneapolis, because you have to go around the great lakes.

[@joywebster2678]

My late husband was stationed 3 hrs north of Thunder Bay Ontario, so we had to move there. My parents visited one summer from Toronto. My mother was shocked it took two full days and a overnight stop to get to the highest paved road in her province. She thought it would be a big 5hr trip...No mom, No!

[@smith6677]

Hi Briggs, 7:00 in: "I hope I pronounced that right." How can I put this politely...there were 'a few' others, but then Canadian place names aren't easy for foreigners. As for that beach, the Wiki page should probably specify that it's a sandy beach, which is unusual in Newfoundland. For another video: A town that's quite isolated considering its status is Iqaluit. It's actually a city and the capital of Nunavut, and its 7,000 residents are about half the population of Baffin Island, the world's fifth-largest island.

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

How did I miss this video? More Canada please! I'm a 3rd generation French Canadian in California. I have never been to Canada and know very little about it (except what my family has shared or what I have researched). I'm fascinated by Canada, but especially anything on the Eastern seaboard. :)

[@billfarley9167]

You'd better move cuz your country is going down the tubes.

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

@@billfarley9167 We're too old to start over. You offering to help us move into your place?

[@MrGriff268]

Sounds like you need to make a visit to the Acadian peninsula in New Brunswick! (and you’d find lots of isolated towns as well)

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

@@MrGriff268 I would love to someday. I still have relatives in that area. And I know once in a while they have family reunions in NB or Quebec. Half of my family still live near the border in Aroostook Co. Maine. ♥

[@BudsCannaCorner]

I have plenty of french Canadian, and acadian ancestry, (you will be both if this is where you're from), I would suggest visiting norther new Brunswick if you wanna know how they would have lived.

[@skullbac654]

An honorable mention for this list would’ve been Schefferville. Located in northern Quebec, only a few kilometers from Labrador, it can only be accessed by train or by air. It used to be a mining town with 5000 residents. When the mines dried out, almost everyone left. There is now only 244 people living in the sweet cold middle of nowhere.

[@stan3030]

I live here in BC and I have a few suggestions if you decide to make another video. •Coalmont •Zeballos •Alert Bay •Winter Harbour

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

I have been to Zeballos. And a lot more towns in B.C. I like the province a lot except for the cold. Lived in Kelowna for a while. Osoyoos too. One time I drove the I 95 way up north. They had places like 135 mile house etc. Tracy (spelling) had that big smelter, I think it may have been copper. All the trees for miles around were dead because of the fumes.

[@jamiearnott72]

Stop sharing our secrets!

[@JERios-wv8lx]

@@thenevadadesertrat2713 WHAT ABOUT TERRACE, BC. IT'S A BIT SECLUDED, BUT IS BEAUTIFUL!!! (NEED MORE INFO ABOUT THIS TOWN.)

[@ryandvernychuk7033]

Hike the north coast trail... that is remote!!! Love that shit... more wildlife than ppl

[@qualicumwilson5168]

Why stop with roads? Ahousat, Ceepeecee, Kyouquot, Quatsino, Simoon Sound, or Winter Harbour. Or mid Coast, try Minstrel Island, Port Neville, Namu, Rivers Inlet and Bella Bella (population 1400). There are lots more if you look. Worked up by Minstrel and, because they had a BC Liquor store, used to go there after a week in camp for "supplies". It became so regular we called it "the Minstrel Cycle". Just Crazy Loggers.

[@joanmayer304]

Please do cheapest places to retire in Canada. I am counting down! ❤️ from 🇨🇦

[@Chantwizzle]

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick or Newfoundland. But you better like winter!

[@joanmayer304]

@@Chantwizzle My son was born when we lived in Moncton NB. It was snowy but if I’m retired I won’t have to slog out to work anyway. I learned to lay down provisions in the winter! Lol

[@judylaybourne7908]

You could live in Maritimes in summer and Florida in winter. In retirement. Reasonable cost of living.

[@cayetanoperez4850]

Thank you for this, Mr. Briggs!

[@michaelstrickland7319]

Thanks for mentioning my hometown. Kegaska, Quebec!

[@ericleger8158]

To Kegaska and beyond! ... with the continuation of route 138

[@benjamindavid2984]

I know the owners of the tea room in Keels, they are really sweet people, Newfoundland has so many remote communities all over the place and so many resettled communities, it's a really beautiful spot

[@outbackigloo6489]

I have actually been to three of these places, and very close to a fourth place. Keels, NL, must be right next to Bonavista, as I recognized the lighthouse. I visited there in 1997 and saw my first iceberg. When I went down the Alaska Highway, I visited Watson Lake, YT and saw the Sign Forest, and several hours later visited Fort Nelson, BC, although I have no distinct memory of it there. The nearest town or city larger than Fort Nelson is Fort St. John, maybe 50 km or so from where the Alaska Highway starts at Dawson Creek. Newfoundland has so many rocky and treacherous coasts that any place with a beach there would be noteworthy. A “tickle” is a small strait. I enjoy your videos Briggs, and look forward to Part Two. 🇨🇦

[@outbackigloo6489]

Keels turns out to be a few kms west of Bonavista in NL (based on Google Maps.) So you probably wouldn’t see the lighthouse from Keels.

[@MTGoddard]

Newfoundland is the best town/ Island in Canada. I lived there for 22 years and the worse mistake I did ,was moved to Montreal. I am regretting that mistake up to now! Montreal is not a good place to be, now. , I am old and have grandchildren here, I can’t leave, but Newfoundland is forever inside my ❤️

[@brucewayne3892]

That's your mistake, moving to the Frenchie province of all places

[@MTGoddard]

@@brucewayne3892 oh God! Tell me about it! And getting worse, French racist all over like Antifa and BLM. But, family you know?!

[@brucewayne3892]

@@MTGoddard damn sorry to hear that. Newfoundland seems really nice. Hope to visit one day

[@MTGoddard]

@@brucewayne3892 you will be there forever....Country side, trails, peace, ocean, Wales ,Great people, beautiful scenery. And the list goes on and on....

[@chuckinhouston9952]

Great job again, Briggs!

[@dawnkotecki7887]

Very informative video!!! ❤️

[@sinisterminister6478]

Manson Creek BC is literally a what you could loosely call a gas station and general store divided by a dirt logging road surrounded by bush and mountains. The few people who live there literally live in cabins in the bush. The nearest town Mackenzie is around a 100km away.

[@stardust949]

A really good film set in Newfoundland is entitled "Shipping News" ~ check it out sometime. also, seal does not taste like chicken. tastes like walrus.

[@clydeknox8887]

@Star Dust, So does walrus taste like chicken or does it taste like seal?

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

Walrus tastes like chicken. hahaha

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

Now is the time the Walrus said to speak of many things etc.

[@brentwoodbay]

I bet it tastes like SH**E!

[@richardsummers7569]

But, surprisingly, walrus tastes like chicken, so, you know.

[@bifftanto]

Thanks for doing your homework. Your pronunciation was really good and typically American know or care about anything regarding Canada. So thank yoi

[@brandonsvlog5377]

Thanks for making a video about my country 😃🇨🇦

[@surreygeorge11]

I've lived in a few isolated areas when I was younger. The pace is slow, but you have to stay active all the time. If you don't stay busy, you will have problems.

[@jayb3033]

The most secluded and northern town I've ever been to in Canada or anywhere in the world for that matter was Hay River in the Northwest Territories. I was there in July once in 1984 and people were actually swimming on Great Slave lake. They were having a heat wave of 90 degrees F or 29 C at the time. That's as far north as Anchorage, AK. There was only 1 highway there from Alberta. A gravel road that took 2 hours to get there from the northern Alberta border.

[@delphinenyirahabimanam.d.8510]

I hope your hip is doing better now. Thanks for the video!

[@YukonMik]

I guess to some Southerners some of these places seem really remote and isolated. Ft. Nelson and Watson Lake are both on the Alaska Highway and, to us Northerners, are not remote at all as we have to pass through them to get further North to our homes. If you want a remote and isolated town, check out Old Crow. Only accessible by air.

[@seanfrank4158]

I know...right? Sure Edmonton might be 11 hours away from Ft Nelson but Ft St John, Dawson Creek, and Grande Prairie is much closer than that. Watson Lake isn't terribly far from Whitehorse IMO. Its all about perspective I guess....

[@Steve_A_Gallant-fitness_music]

Love watching your videos. Watch em everyday

[@trailerparkparadise]

you should make more Canada videos, i enjoy watching them

[@LostCaper]

Nice video. Love this stuff. Would like to see another one.

[@ZykaCharlie]

For your next video on isolated towns in Canada, please look up Old Crow in the Yukon. You can only get there by air or water. Another isolated town is Atlin, BC. This town has some very interesting history.

[@marcpikas2859]

Can you drive there on ice road in the winter time or is that no longer possible?

[@ZykaCharlie]

@@marcpikas2859 yes, you can drive there in the winter on ice roads but you can also fly in on a ski plane.

[@marcpikas2859]

@@ZykaCharlie Thanks

[@eyetrollin710]

All of these answers are wrong and I'm guessing none of you people have been there. No there is no ice Road in to Old Crow!!!!!!! The only way in or out is by dog sled by foot by canoe because the canoe can go on the skinny little Porcupine River or flying in with a normal plane or a helicopter. Old Crow has had a massive International tarmac for over ten years now, I know this because when I was flying geophysical surveys in the area we had an issue with a blizzard and couldn't get back to Eagle Plains and so we had to try to get to Old Crow will ran the blizzard by about 5 minutes, when we got there the fellow who had been on the radio with us and who was running the one-room Airport couldn't stop going off about the brand new massive tarmac and the fact that the Ravens in the area figured out really quickly that it was super hard unlike all the other dirt roads in town, and if they flew up really high with a bone and dropped it would shatter and they could get the marrow.

[@eyetrollin710]

​@@ZykaCharlie based on your reply I know for a fact you've never been there but I mean you can even Google this information no there are no ice roads up there ice roads look fryer frozen lakes there is no lakes in the area you blooming moron moreover it is some of the most sensitive ecology in all of Canada, there are zero roads going to Old Crow

[@michaeltutty1540]

Faro, Yukon should be on here too. 4 hours of gravel roads north west of Whitehorse, the town has roughly 350 residents.

[@CP140405]

I'm surprised you missed Old Crow (Yukon)

[@thearsenalmisfit2414]

That was the first place that came to mind for me.

[@ruths1010videoclips]

And the now infamous Beaver Creek.

[@zoidumsmcconnell3041]

There's lot of small towns and hamlets all over for sure. I remember driving my bike to visit my aunt in Easton's Corners between Smith's Falls and Merickville. At the time they had only one over priced convenience store, with the owners living upstairs. Otherwise the residents had to drive to one of the town's mentioned. Beautiful ride in the summer time though. Perth is on the opposite side of Smith's Falls.

[@GreenHorn1Acre]

That’s cool... I’ve been to Alert Nunavut👌🏼👌🏼

[@aarronwoods6389]

I was there in 09

[@GreenHorn1Acre]

@@aarronwoods6389 cool i was there in summer ‘92 😁🤣

[@CP140405]

Flew over it in an Aurora staging out of Thule

[@rudra62]

I've been to Ft Nelson, Watson Lake, and Point Lance on different trips to Canada by car. You might want to include Johnsons Crossing, Yukon. It's a tiny little place with some history. Peace River, NWT sounded a bit interesting when we found ourselves on the wrong road heading there out of Ft Nelson.

[@SteezeCartel]

Ashcroft B.C. Canada's only true desert town. Pop. 1600. Many Hollywood movies & TV shows filmed here. The town is basically a movie set. Sagebrush and cactus covered hills surround the town. You'd think you were in Arizona or Nevada, not Canada.

[@billfarley9167]

And in Arizona and Nevada the locals say that it reminds them of Ashcroft.

[@kylawarkentin996]

Another great isolated town would have to be Leaf Rapids, Manitoba I grew up there and since the mine closed in 2002 there are not many people left and it is a 12 hour drive north from Winnipeg

[@pierremajor8712]

I’ve been to Kégaska Quebec. It’s over 800 miles from Montreal. It’s an amazing drive, and I also visited the church you showed in your video, thanks for the video, it was great!!

[@Hawgwild97]

Fort Nelson is amazing! I stay there on my way to Skagway. Watson Lake is beautiful too. I’ll be visiting again next month when I drive up for my summer job in Alaska. I really enjoy tire videos especially ones like these and Alaska videos!

[@JJ_Neptune]

I got a secluded town suggestion for you Briggs: Hyder Alaska

[@ScubaSteveCanada]

History of Hyder may prove to be interesting since it IS one of the few places you can enter the U.S. without going through any border control.

[@jamesoldman3021]

@@ScubaSteveCanada With the borders closed Hyder/Stewart are looking for an exemption to the Canada/US border closure. Knowing the region I'm sure they are just carrying on as usual but they are looking for official recognition of their unique problem.

[@ericpoolguy29]

Used to live part time in Stoney Rapids, SK Crazy it made the list!

[@PeakBagger999]

Surprised you didn’t mention Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories.

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

I think about it all the time. Just last night my wife said she wants to vacation there. I replied no dear, we go to 193 mile house off the I95 in B.C.

[@dwdelve]

Started my oil career in Tuktoyaktuk with Imperial Oil across the bay from the DEW Line. Rig 3

[@sandymcgill1910]

Or Holman.. it's nearest city is Tuk and fly in only

[@dwdelve]

@@sandymcgill1910 that is so cool looked Ulukhakto up on google earth is that just a settlement. Any industry? Just googled and looked at pics. That is where you go if your really scared of you ex... well, maybe just me. Sandy, where you ever there? Teacher, Nurse, RCMP?

[@thenevadadesertrat2713]

@@dwdelve Haha, Dave that is funny. I almost wound up on the DEW line myself. The year was '57 or '56. I needed a job, fresh off the boat from Europe. It was September. The man says to me "why don't you try Crawley/McCracken (spelling?) They are hiring. I go their offices, I think they were on Ste. Catherines St. in Montreal. We have job openings on Bear Island. Where is that? He pulls out a huge map and says to me see this here, this is Hudson's Bay. Now look in the middle, that speck. That is Bear Island. We fly you in. But you cannot get back until the ice breaks around June of next year. To that I replied I am very sorry cannot accept that job. My wife is expecting triplets any day now. With that I ran out the door.

[@MichaelJKlassen]

I am a Canadian and proud of it. I have been to a few of the towns on this list as well as a couple that are far more isolated than some on this list. When I was living and working in the North West Territories I was flown into several towns that have no roads out. I was in Sachs Harbour for almost a month rebuilding houses, the first and so far only town where I have been shot at. I have also been to Norman Wells were stealing a car is only a misdemeanour, and I slept on a living room floor in Paulatuk because there was no flight out due to weather.

[@jaykaye7025]

Have you ever been to America 🇺🇸?

[@Maplewhiskey]

look into fort mcmurray alberta canada as a secluded city that is 4 hours to the nears city and 2 and a half hours to anything over 1000 people i lived there for 26 years before i finally excaped

[@Blakpepa]

Fort McMurray is a disaster area and you can barely get a job, mortgage or insurance there

[@outbackigloo6489]

Fort McMurray is not that small. Maybe about 50,000 live there. They were in the news a few years ago due to those wildfires; the entire city was evacuated. That was four years ago; I hope things have returned to normal there.

[@HoneyBoomz]

Not THAT small, but crap luck with natural disasters. Forest fires destroyed so much years ago. Last year they had floods and yeah, during Covid.

[@Maplewhiskey]

@@HoneyBoomz your right most of my life growing up there I was worried with fires and floods in the city.

[@tdpay9015]

10:38 it's a good thing that house has a nice fence to keep the crowds out

[@Brightlightslatenights]

We live in Watson Lake! We also have a very awesome building called the northern lights center, you can experience the northern lights indoors on a floor to ceiling experience! We also have gold medal winning hockey players! My family runs Our airport, and it doubles as a museum! We may not have fast food, or traffic lights, but we have some of the best local artisans and the baking will leave you coming back season after season.

[@maxshea1829]

Exceptionally cold there, isn't it? Last winter I tried to locate the coldest spot with Google Maps. Watson Lake was often colder than any place I could find south of the Circle.

[@Badgeweefixstuff]

Briggs you hitting you know what's funny. I have been to 6 of them 🤣 very cool video thanks. Oh lol by the way it is newf ound land lol awesome video buddy 🛠️🇨🇦🛠️🇨🇦

[@davidandrew348]

Spent the entire summer touring BC on my motorbike due to Covid 😷. amazing towns in the middle of nowhere.

[@politicalbandwagon4989]

You know, spent the entire summer travailing because of a pandemic.

[@crashandburngaming5103]

I used to live in BC. From Ft.st.John to Greenwood Spent many yrs in Kamloops and Williams Lake. Loved every minute, want to go back and retire on the Island.

[@missesmew]

Been to Watson lake. My town was there. Oh yeah, Dan Blockers son was playing bass in a band i saw in a bar there. Dan Blocker played Hoss in Gunsmoke.

[@MrGaryRoberton]

If you do another list Mr. Briggs, include Kitsault British Columbia, A Ghost town that has been uninhabited since 1982, and was built in 1979. Apparently, the power and water services are still working, and is privately owned .

[@dianemcadam2773]

I live in a secluded town in BC altho we are called the City of Powell River. Located just over 70 km north of Vancouver it takes two ferries and up to 6 hours ( 9hrs in summer) to get here.... Or you can get to us via the ferry from Vancouver Island which is only 1.5 hrs ...of course you have to get to the island first which is another ferry ride. BUT with a population of 13,000-16,000. and mountain views and lakes and sunsets and as much recreational fun as you can imagine it is so worth the ferry pain. Plus shops and the friendliest people you’ll ever meet!

[@aliciarenouf3095]

The collapse of the cod industry in Newfoundland was due to foreign overfishing. There were some pretty big debates over it because Newfoundland fishermen were not allowed to fish but foreign fishermen were......... And still are doing it

[@Goats_]

Yo Briggs, Great video. Your small town lists are Always Solid.