Throughout these hardships — ranging from biting cold in winter to withering hoards of flying and biting insects during the summer months — most miners and prospectors managed to perform their daring and often dangerous tasks with resolve and cheerfulness. Under these trying condition s which existed throughout northern Canada, prospector, miner and trapper alike respected one of the most important tenets of the bush — to help your fellow man.
Throughout northern Manitoba, this law is being dutifully obeyed as an unprecedented number of forest fires storm throughout that province. Thompson, one of the world’s largest and richest nickel mining camps, acts as the nerve centre for firefighting crews and a haven for those forced from their homes across the province.
Doctors and nursing staffs are working 24-hour shifts, pilots are rapidly using up their allowable flying hours for the month and people everywhere are pitching in to meet the challenge of the fires head-on.
Their spirit of co-operation and sacrifice is not new, but a telling testimony to the same spirit of co-operation which guided their predecessors years ago before the town existed. It’s a spirit of charity that we all could learn from.
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