MN1048 FLIN FLON - EARLY MORNING, SLEIGH ON SCHIST LAKE

POSTCARD

Date: Not Posted. No indication on the card, but it is part of a collection dated through the fall of 1917 through the winter of 1918.

Publisher / Photographer: Unidentified

Notation: Note on the front reads; "Early morning, sleigh on Schist Lake leaving for The Pas. J Talbot, E. Hackman, Smith [?], Don Kennedy & H. Busham [?]"

An 85-mile winter road (over lakes and through forests) was constructed in 1916 to connect the Mandy Mine camp to The Pas and to bring in needed equipment & supplies.


** 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.