Gold helped to open the Manitoba frontier

Gold was often the catalyst that opened new lands in Canada's north and west, and Manitoba was no exception. Soon after gold was discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1879, prospectors moved north. Manitoba's first documented gold...

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