Rockwood (Fred)

[Plymouthy Adams]

what is this rumor about Winnipeg area, boom town...gold and oil discoveries...you holding out on us..?

[55 Fargo]

what is this rumor about Winnipeg area, boom town...gold and oil discoveries...you holding out on us..?

Always been Oil 3 hours( modest amount of wells) to the soutwest of Winnipeg in SW Manitoba along North Dakota border.

As far as gold, Manitoba has gold, this ain't no Klondike, or Alberta, just modests amounts of both , unless there is something I am unaware.

[Rodney Bullock]

Fred, there's gold in them there hills:) First those Polar bears now this What in tarnation is going on there:D

I understand they had a huge oil find years ago however they needed to separate the sand from the oil. This process was thought impossible now some has come up with a method. We might see gas at a dollar a gallon again.

[55 Fargo]

Fred, there's gold in them there hills:) First those Polar bears now this What in tarnation is going on there:D

I understand they had a huge oil find years ago however they needed to separate the sand from the oil. This process was thought impossible now some has come up with a method. We might see gas at a dollar a gallon again.

The gold is in the snow lake area, 500 miles north of Winnipeg, nearing the sub-arctic terrain, but very heavy timber, rock and bush country up there.

The oil tarsands are Alberta, not sure if we have them or not. Most of Manitoba oil is from the Virden Pipestone area of south western Manitoba

[B-Watson]

The gold is in the snow lake area, 500 miles north of Winnipeg, nearing the sub-arctic terrain, but very heavy timber, rock and bush country up there.

The oil tarsands are Alberta, not sure if we have them or not. Most of Manitoba oil is from the Virden Pipestone area of south western Manitoba

No oil tarsands in Manitoba. The oil in the SW part of Manitoba is the eastern edge of a large oil field in south Saskatchewan. Part of the reason there is no oil in Manitoba is due to the glaciers, centred on what is now Hudson Bay, which covered most of Manitoba for a few thousand years. The "mountains" on the west side of the province, Turtle, Riding, Duck and Porcupine, are actually massive piles of gravel and debris pushed off the central and eastern portions of the province by the glaciers.

There was gold in the Bissett area east of Lake Winnipeg. But that has been mined out.

The only massive gold discovery I can think of was one "found" by a Ken Leishman and cohorts at the Winnipeg Airport. A load of gold was flown in from a mine in Northern Manitoba. When it arrived, these 'prospectors' waited until the gold was loaded onto a truck and advised the handlers they were there to pick up the gold. No ID, no questions - just, okay.

Forget how many millions (think late 1960's gold) were involved, but no one knew who the thieves were or where they went. They got caught one late winter's day when a person in the Fort Rouge area of Winnipeg noticed some shiny gold stuff pocking out of a snow bank in his neighbour's back yard. Police investigated and found almost (or all) the gold under that pile of snow.

Ken was known as the "gentleman bank robber". When he once robbed a bank he knocked over a woman heading home from shopping. He stopped, helped the woman get her packages together, apologized, and ran off.

In the late 1970's he took off in his airplane but never arrived at his destination. The found the remains of his airplane in the bush, but not Ken. For years everyone wondered what he had stolen and where he was heading for. But they did eventually find his remains some distance from the plane.

A co-worker, also named Bill, knew Ken - forget how they met. A year or so before Ken disappeared I went to the local bar to meet up with Bill after work for a beer. I was introduced to a gentleman seated with him, named Ken. After Ken left Bill told me who he was.

In case you're wondering, I was born, raised and spent the first 31 years of my life in Winnipeg.

Bill

Vancouver, BC

[B-Watson]

Fred,

Mentioning the piles of gravel on the west side of the province, forgot to mention another glacial pile of gravel. You know this one, I believe. It is located at Stony Mountain, and the penetentiary was built on top of the pile.

Bird's Hill, on the east side of the Red River, is another.

Bill

Vancouver, BC

[55 Fargo]

Fred,

Mentioning the piles of gravel on the west side of the province, forgot to mention another glacial pile of gravel. You know this one, I believe. It is located at Stony Mountain, and the penetentiary was built on top of the pile.

Bird's Hill, on the east side of the Red River, is another.

Bill

Vancouver, BC

Freddy boy, has been working on this site for years, and the other site, is 15 minutes from where I live.

My handle Rockwood, is after the Rockwood RM, where the prison Stony Mountain Pen, and Rockwood Minimum security, are located.

Not a very original name, not sure what I was thinking, but too long and too late to change it now.............LOL

[PatS....]

No oil tarsands in Manitoba.

Hey Bill, the term "tarsands" isn't used anymore here, the PC term now is "oilsands". Sounds cleaner, eh?

Seems this huge deposit of oil is too "dirty" for some folks. Unlike the "clean" oil that Exxon dumped into the ocean in Alaska.