PSP-SW Traditional Cache
Trove Chasers: This one is done. Thanks to all who stopped in to visit
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We were caching in this area on a beautiful mid-October fall day. Temperatures had risen to 21 degrees when we happened upon this marker. We have placed a cache "PSP" GC1ETY4 at the NW boundary marker and couldn't resist placing one here also. Unfortunately all we had with us on this day was a 35mm film canister. No FTF or pencil.
A commemorative marker "Postage Stamp Province" placed near the original west boundary of the Province of Manitoba when it officially became a Canadian Province on July 15th, 1870. When Manitoba entered Confederation in 1870, its total area measured only 33,280 square kilometres, or one eighteenth of its present size. Its tiny rectangular shape earned Manitoba the title of "Postage Stamp Province." The boundary extensions of 1881 and 1912 which brought the province to its present dimensions were the result of a series of complex and, at times, heated negotiations between the various levels of government within the country. The story of these negotiations is an important part of the history of this province and its people.
The Boundary Commission Trail in 1873 and the North West Mounted Police in 1874 crossed the west boundary of the Province of Manitoba at this point as they made their trek into what was then the Northwest Territories.
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