Luscar is a ghost town in west-central Alberta, Canada that was once a coal mining community.
The original underground mine at Luscar opened in 1921, and by 1922 the community consisted of about 25 or 30 homes, a small cottage hospital, a school, a general store, and other shops.
The mine worked the strongly folded Jewel Seam and produced steam coal, primarily for railroad markets.
Fire destroyed the briquette plant in 1956 and later that year all mining ceased due to lack of markets for steam coal, after which the community was abandoned.
[3] Coal from the Cheviot Mine near Mountain Park is currently trucked to the Luscar site where it is cleaned and loaded into rail cars.