MN1049 FLIN FLON - STURGEON RIVER LANDING

POSTCARD

Date: Not Posted. Note on the card indicates March 1918,

Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified

Notation: Handwritten note on front reads; "Sturgeon River Landing, Saskatchewan. Looking south. Mandy ore pile, March 1918."

In the winters, ore from the Mandy Mine was hauled 40 miles to Sturgeon River Landing. From there, in the spring, it would be towed on barges 120 miles through rivers and lakes to the Pas - where it would then be transported 1200 miles by rail to smelters in B.C.

** This image is from a collection of 31 postcards that I acquired from an original set of 37. They were primarily private postcards (not commercially-produced) focused on the operations and personnel involved with the development & operation of the Mandy Mine on Schist Lake in Northern Manitoba from the early fall of 1917 through to the spring of 1918.