10 Ghost Towns In Alberta I Bet You Don't Know

A town nicknamed Little Chicago, an oil sands pioneer who tried to sell bitumen as a skin ointment, and a power-company town with a POW camp just up the road. The stories behind Alberta's forgotten towns are a lot stranger than the few ruins they left behind. If you want to follow along, subscribe and stick around — and tell me in the comments: what should I cover next? I read every single one. Towns covered in this video: 10. Royalties (Little Chicago) 9. Whiskey Gap 8. Alexo 7. Retlaw 6. Pocahontas 5. Seebe 4. Bitumount 3. East Coulee 2. Dorothy 1. Silver City Sources & further reading: https://communitystories.ca/projects/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexo,_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retlaw,... https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ab/jasp... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_130 https://history.alberta.ca/EnergyHeri... https://historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy... https://www.whyte.org/post/story-of-s...