Ioco is an area of Port Moody, British Columbia, located on the northern shore of the Burrard Inlet. Ioco, an abbreviation of I mperial O il Co rporation, [1] was originally a townsite for an Imperial Oil refinery. The refinery began operation in January 1915.

2016年3月21日 · The ghost town of Ioco, the name an abbreviated form of Imperial Oil Company, sits across the Burrard Inlet from Port Moody. Originally, workers lived in a shanty town. Or they commuted, riding a small ferry or walking the long, narrow, rail spur bridge that crossed the inlet.

The Imperial Oil refinery was one of the first refinery operations in Western Canada and a very significant site in the industrial development of British Columbia. The company started in 1880 in Sarnia, Ontario.

2019年11月1日 · The refinery converted 40,000 bbl/day of light Alberta crude oil to a wide range of products including gasoline and diesel fuels, aviation and marine fuels, home heating oil, propane, butane, bunker fuels, asphalt and specialty chemicals like xylene. Crude oil arrived by pipeline; products were shipped out via pipeline, truck, rail, ship and barge.

2018年9月10日 · Discover The Chilling History Of This Abandoned BC Town On A Spooky Ghost Walk. There are a number of spooky urban legends in Vancouver; however, the story behind Port Moody’s ghost town, Ioco, is fascinating. Located in the Burrard Inlet across from Port Moody, was originally created as a shanty town for workers on an oil refinery.

2021年5月14日 · Historians work to preserve the company town that helped shape the Tri-Cities. Stillmen, gaugers, machinists, boilermakers, pipefitters and general labourers either hiked six kilometres into work, hailed a water taxi or rowed themselves across the inlet to get to Ioco. But in the early days of the refinery most of them lived in tents.

1859 — Colonel R. C. Moody proclaims the site for the capital for the new Colony of British Columbia on February 14 th and names it Queenborough (today’s New Westminster ). 1859 — Lieutenant G. S. Blake, R.M.A. (Royal Marine Artillery) conducts the first inland expedition

2022年2月25日 · Self-guided walking tour of the old Ioco townsite includes 19 interpretive signs that help tell the story of the old Imperial Oil company town

The Imperial Oil Company (Ioco) built in 1914 on the North shore of Burrard Inlet. However, crude oil wasn’t processed there until 1915 as the first tanker load of oil was captured by Germans in the Pacific. By 1919, the refinery processed 2,000 barrels of crude a day.

2025年1月11日 · In spite its proximity to the Greater Vancouver area and across Burrard Inlet from the city of Port Moody, Ioco is a quiet place and feels remote. Sprawling cites are a shorty distance away, yet here you’d never know it. Trees? Open spaces? It’s so different.