About Zeballos Section of The Northern Vancouver Island Information Directory with Maps and Contacts

This charming and peaceful community, named
after Spanish explorer Lt. Ciriaco Cevallos, is
built almost 200 years agon on the mouth of the
Zeballos River. Many of the false-front buildings
in Zeballos remind people of earlier days when
the "roads were caked in mud but every street
was paved with gold," as locals will proclaim.

Here is a community whose roads were once
truly paved with gold! In fact, the owners of the
nearby gold mine actually scraped the surface of
the road at one time so the tailings could be run
through new equipment and residual gold
removed. Zeballos was once the site of a gold
mine that produced more than $13 million worth
of gold between 1938 and 1943. You will see
many abandoned gold mines and the museum
has lots of interesting artifacts and displays.