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Word: sherridon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lynn Lake area by bush plane. Flyers who circled Lynn Lake saw so many snowshoe tracks on the ground they looked like chicken runs. Around the lake a busy settlement had sprung up. Log cabins and prefabricated houses had been hauled north on sleighs. Tractor trains clanked in from Sherridon carrying hundreds of tons of supplies at a time. (On the return trip they carried back ore for extraction at a pilot plant set up in Sherridon.) There was talk of laying a spur railroad line from Sherridon north to Lynn Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRAIRIES: The Big Strike | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

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