Burchell Lake is a ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located behind a locked gate at the southern end of Highway 802 in the Thunder Bay District.

[4] However, the price of copper had fallen sufficiently by 1967 that the mine was no longer profitable, and the site was shut down in 1967.

In less than ten years of operations, workers at Burchell Lake had mined an estimated 102 million pounds of ore.[2] A number of recreational cottages are still located in the area.

[1] Easily accessible, Burchell Lake remained one of Ontario's best-preserved ghost towns for many years, with many of its buildings still standing at the townsite as of summer 2011.

[1] This included a dozen or so houses (some with basements), the original BA gas station, two room school, and collapsed recreation hall.