Anyox
Sign in to save200px|thumb|right|Anyox, British Columbia Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada. Today it is a ghost town, abandoned and largely destroyed. It is located on the shores of Granby Bay in coastal Observatory Inlet, about south of (but without a land link to) Stewart, British Columbia, and about , across wilderness east of the tip of the Alaska Panhandle.
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200px|thumb|right|Anyox, British Columbia Anyox was a small company-owned mining town in British Columbia, Canada. Today it is a ghost town, abandoned and largely destroyed. It is located on the shores of Granby Bay in coastal Observatory Inlet, about south of (but without a land link to) Stewart, British Columbia, and about , across wilderness east of the tip of the Alaska Panhandle.
==Early history== The remote valley was long a hunting and trapping area for the Nisga'a, and the name Anyox means “hidden waters” in the Nisga'a language. The first Europeans in the area were the members of the Vancouver Expedition, who surveyed the inlet in 1793.
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