Most remote place you've visited in Canada

[Airboy]

Gris Fjord Elsmere Island Nunavut. In the east and Holman Island in the West Arctic. Was scheduled to go to Alert but an Engineer pulled rank.

In Alberta Garden River west side of Wood Buffalo NP, and or Ft Chipewyan.

When I get back to my computer I'll post some photos.

CBSA Check point for me is Skagway as well.

Cape Spear East, Ucluelet in the lower Westcoast . Haines Junction or Dawson City for furthest west.

Gris Fjord.
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Holman Island Western Arctic
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Dawson City
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[FrAnKs]

The Magdalen Islands

[O-tacular]

Tofino.

The drive there is the longest, most treacherous and desolate that I have ever made.

[Rico Rommheim]

For me it would be the village of Puvirnituq in Nunavik.

On the shores of Hudson's bay, it is located 1800km from Montreal, it is roughly the same distance from Montreal to Florida.


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[Mr Tall Forehead]

No photos but I once spent a couple of nights on George Island which is near the middle of the north basin of Lake Winnipeg.

With the exception of seasonal commercial fishing dock, shed and a few bunkies it was like being on a deserted island in the middle of an ocean. Absolutely beautiful beach on the north shoreline.

[biguc]

Originally Posted by Nashe

Great Harbour Deep, NL. Had to get to it via coastal walk-on ferry, and the town was shut down in the 90's and it's now abandoned.

Amazing. Looks like there are a few boat-in ruins up there. I want to make an expedition.

Even the name. Great Harbour Deep sounds like a place worth expeditioning.

[logan5]

Regina. It is located in the southern part of Saskatchewan. Coordinates - 50°27'06"N 104°36'56"W.

[Proof Sheet]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Furthest east - Cape Spear NL (easternmost point in North America).
Furthest west - Victoria, BC
Furthest north - Edmonton, AB
Furthest south - Point Pelee, ON (southernmost point in mainland Canada).

I wouldn't consider any of these places particularly remote.

There have been places along the way that have seemed remote. Probably the most remote feeling one was Cape Race and Trepassey in NL. When you get into the southern barrens of the Avalon peninsula, you are essentially passing through subarctic tundra, complete with caribou and ptarmigan. There isn't a lot of people who live there. You could easily pretend you are in northern Labrador.

In Canada

East. Gander Airport
West. Vancouver Island
North Moosenee
South Windsor

In the World

East. Kirkenes, Norway (as far east as Istanbul)
West. Oregon Coast
North. North Cap(e) Norway 71 degrees north
South. St Maarten

[Spocket]

Somewhere north of Manning, AB. Might have been High Level, actually. Not really "remote" in the sense that it's not like you're the only person for a thousand miles but something about going north bothers me. It feels like I'm heading towards the edge of the world. lol

[Tone]

I spent a few summers and falls in Naramata BC, obviously not that remote but being on a dead end made it seem like it.

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by Spocket

Somewhere north of Manning, AB. Might have been High Level, actually. Not really "remote" in the sense that it's not like you're the only person for a thousand miles but something about going north bothers me. It feels like I'm heading towards the edge of the world. lol

Anything North of Peace river is remote. And I live in Alberta

[Truenorth00]

Goose Bay for me. I'm really hoping to score a site visit to Iqaluit on my current project.

[trueviking]

I once designed a service garage in Eureka, Nunavut. Was the only time I've had to figure out how much a building would weigh because it was all put on a ship in Montreal and taken up. Still one of the most expensive buildings I have ever designed.

The sun just did circle in the sky above me....didn't get darker, the shadows just changed sides.

Went there twice. Was cool to watch the compass change as we flew over the magnetic north pole. The pilot called me in to the cockpit to watch.

I have a globe that I put pins in wherever I have been but can't for Eureka because it is under the metal time zone thing at the top.

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[MolsonExport]

very cool

[drew]

The building in the foreground left is no longer there (it's actually packed into a bunch of containers waiting to get shipped out). The building in the foreground right is where I stayed. It's the building with the staff quarters, visitor rooms, kitchen, gym, etc.

Interesting fact is that the google street view in Eureka was uploaded to google by a consultant while he was up there for a project.

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by trueviking

I once designed a service garage in Eureka, Nunavut. Was the only time I've had to figure out how much a building would weigh because it was all put on a ship in Montreal and taken up. Still one of the most expensive buildings I have ever designed.

The sun just did circle in the sky above me....didn't get darker, the shadows just changed sides.

Went there twice. Was cool to watch the compass change as we flew over the magnetic north pole. The pilot called me in to the cockpit to watch.

I have a globe that I put pins in wherever I have been but can't for Eureka because it is under the metal time zone thing at the top.

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I remember the days we were designing for anything in Nunavut or the Western Arctic. Design had to be done early January, Tender Feb, Shop Drawings in March for delivery to Montreal in June and July to get the last sea lift. And Structural would usually go up a year before. But everything had to either fit in a container or be the size of a container.

[trueviking]

^ yeah...that's exactly it...took three years to build because of the shipping and construction cycles.

Drew, that's cool you were there too. I was there before that residential building was built. I stayed in a little wooden building that looked like someone's basement rec room.

Interesting that they ship out the demolished buildings. I just assumed the building I did would be there until the earth gets sucked into the super nova. Too bad it wont be.

[Airboy]

Originally Posted by trueviking

^ yeah...that's exactly it...took three years to build because of the shipping and construction cycles.

Drew, that's cool you were there too. I was there before that residential building was built. I stayed in a little wooden building that looked like someone's basement rec room.

Interesting that they ship out the demolished buildings. I just assumed the building I did would be there until the earth gets sucked into the super nova. Too bad it wont be.

Some parts of the dewline sites are being shipped out as well.

[SignalHillHiker]

I've made my decision. Cape Race is the most remote place I've ever been. Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and all the actual isolated towns in Newfoundland, are a little more connected. It's basically an ATV trail from the only paved road on the subarctic barrens of the southern Avalon (we're the opposite of Florida - the farther south you go, the farther north it is). I forget how long, I think it was more than an hour, getting out to pile peat into deep ruts for my little Civic).









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I mean, Happy Valley-Goose Bay may be remote, but... c'mon... (this is in response to myself, not anyone else who mentioned it. It's a fair answer. But me, myself, and I have been to Cape Race lol)


(Most people fly PAL, our provincial airline. It's a milk run. Most commonly, St. John's to Deer Lake to St. Anthony to Blanc Sablon, Quebec to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Easily double this Google price as it's mostly business/public servants flying within NL.)

[circle33]

Nanisivik, NU (73° 02' N, 84° 32' W). Don't look for it. It's not there anymore. It was the site of a now decomissioned lead - zinc mine.