Daily Mail News – Politcis
By SAMANTHA RUTT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 11:40 EST, 16 February 2025 | Updated: 12:09 EST, 16 February 2025
A quaint Canadian town, dubbed the ‘Village of Widows’, has a dark and tumultuous history linked to over 200,000 deaths.
Port Radium, Ontario is home to the Eldorado Mine, a once-plentiful source of radium that provided industry and jobs for locals. However, the once-bountiful resource quickly turned sinister as locals discovered the mined radium was used in the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.