Committee Outwash
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Committee Outwash was a small town that is now abandoned at the base of Mount Hoy and next to Bonanza Lake, Vancouver island. The ruins of the town sit at 400 meters above sea level and it is located at 50'22'44 North 126'4836 West.
The town was founded by 2 brothers in 1924 after World War I, they founded the town to start logging to feed the growing logging economy of the island. Overtime the population grew to approximately 70-110 residents. The majority of the town lived in wooden log cabins as when the site was discovered once more in the early 2000s was only several wooden log cabins. The town population started to decline when the men who were also the loggers and the breadwinners of their household enlisted in World War Two, when they returned to Committee Outwash they found the town struggling and the majority of people abandoned their husbands and went to other logging or mining dependent towns like the Comox Valley or Nanaimo. Whoever was left also left in the following years leaving the town to be reclaimed by nature by 1960.
The ruins of the town became brought to the attention of people was in the early 2000's when they found disturbed ground and an abnormal amount of rotten wood, now the site is been vandalized presumably by youth learning about the site in school and because of the damage no further research has been done by local historians.
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