Radio-Canada- Jan 25, 2005
Le village de Kitsault, situé dans le nord de la Colombie-Britannique, appartient depuis la fin de décembre à une entreprise dirigée par des investisseurs de Virginie.
Le village, qui abrite 92 maisons et 7 édifices de logements, longe la mer sur 2 kilomètres au nord de Prince Rupert. Il a été abandonné en 1982, quand la mine de molybdène de la société Climax a fermé ses portes.
l’express.mu – January 25, 2005
An abandoned, but well-maintained, British Columbia mining town, complete with library, pub and hospital, has been sold to an unidentified Virginia property developer who must now decide what he wants to do with it.
The buyer paid less than C$7 million (3.03 million pounds) for Kitsault, located on a fjord near the Alaska Panhandle about 800 km northwest of Vancouver, the town’s marketing agent said on Tuesday.
Reuters– January 25, 2005
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) – An abandoned, but well-maintained, British Columbia mining town, complete with library, pub and hospital, has been sold to an unidentified Virginia property developer who must now decide what he wants to do with it.
The buyer paid less than C$7 million (3.03 million pounds) for Kitsault, located on a fjord near the Alaska Panhandle about 500 miles (800 km) northwest of Vancouver,
Heather Ramsay, Northword Magazine, Winter 2004-2005
“It was utopia,” says John Wheatley, who along with his wife of 48 years, Patricia, was the longest resident of Kitsault, a remote mining town 140 kilometres north by air from Prince Rupert now on the market for $7 million.
The couple retired to Houston last year, but for the previous 15 they lived in an eerily well-maintained but empty town, at the end of idyllic Alice Arm.