GOLD ROCK

NAME: Gold Rock COUNTY: Na ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in Winter, Warm Summer. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Summer

COMMENTS: Completely abandoned REMAINS: Many original buildings.

The year was 1890 when gold was discovered on Trafalgar Bay. By 1895, more than 200 miners and their families into the unknown bush and established the town of Gold Rock. The town was self-sufficient with stores as supplies were shipped in from Wabigoon station of the Canadian Pacific Railway. At its peak, Gold Rock had a permanent doctor and school teacher. By 1910 the gold had run out, the mines were closed, the miners and their families had departed and Gold Rock was silent. But left behind is a remarkable collection of turn-of-the-century buildings including mills, headframes, bunkhouses, cookeries, cabins and, hidden by the forest, a graveyard of the miners who couldn’t leave. Submitted by: Henry Chenoweth

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