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Product/Service Name: Town of Snow Lake Company: Town of Snow Lake ; Box 40 ; Ph: (204) 358-2551 The friendly town of Snow Lake was brought to life by gold mining. Prospectors discovered this spectacularly beautiful place in the 1940's and officially made it a town in 1947. The town quickly became successful due to the bounty of mineral resources. Our history is still a big part of us and we are very proud of it. The following snippets of history have been taken from Snow Lake's Centennial Salute to the Trailblazers. It was first printed in 1967 to commemorate Canada's 100th birthday. Alma Mardis, Editor of Snow Lake's Centennial Salute to the Trailblazers writes: Because Snow Lake and it's surrounding district is still comparatively young in development, we are fortunate to have --in many of our early settlers-- a living history. It is to honour these wonderful people and to record their stories, before they are lost to us forever, that the Town of Snow Lake has decided to publish this booklet as one of their centennial projects. In talking to our first citizens I have been singularly impressed with their courage and resourcefulness. They came north, singly or in groups; enduring the bitter cold of winter and the insect infected muskegs in summer. Without union backing, Medicare or pension plans they spread out across the land, cutting roads as they came. They cleared the portages and marked them with the familiar lobstick, a partially limbed tree trunk with its two remaining branches pointing the way across the lake to the next portage. Some of them came from far countries, often to die a lonely death in some northern lake. They came to search for wealth in the rocks; to fish or to trap and trade in fur. Perhaps, most of all, they came because, as George Bartlett has said....."It's nice to be free." Pictured here is a monument to commemorate miners lost in accidents which is right beside a time capsule created in 1997 for our Town's 50th anniversary. |
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