Category: Northern Manitoba

Northern Manitoba Overview

Much of Northern Manitoba has only recently entered the Industrial Age. Take a historical day trip and travel from the first Hudson’s Bay Company trading post on the Churchill River to the second, just along the peninsula. Kwastichewan Falls is Manitoba’s highest waterfall. Flin Flon Manitoba, located just north of The Pas, is home to the Hudson’s Bay Copper Mine and Smelting Company. It got its name from Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin, the protagonist of a novel that was found in the area by local nickel deposit discoverers.

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