Welcome to the Welcome Centre! Traditional Cache
Welcome to the Welcome Centre!
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Cache is located just off the trail close the main office to Falcon Trails Resort. Cache is a large camoed nut container.
Welcome to the Whiteshell Provincial Park!
The Whiteshell Provincial park is a is a 2,729 km2 multi-use park and offers it's visitors many activities from hiking, canoeing, fishing, swimming, hunting, boating, camping, trapping, horse back ridding, skidooing, and many more activities!
The name of the park originated from the First Nations people who populated the park and is derived from the cowrie shells that were used in their ceremonies. Ojibway, Anishinaabe and Midewiwin were the main tribes that were situated with in the park.
The rivers and waterways in the park were the traditional highways the aboriginal people used for harvesting wild rice, fishing, and hunting. In 1734 Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Verendrye was the first European to explore the park during his quest for a route to the Western Sea. The Whiteshell and Winnipeg river systems are the main rivers in the Whiteshell and supply many lakes with water. The Winnipeg River became a main route for French fur traders and voyageurs who took of furs from inland posts to Fort William and returned with supplies in the early fall.
In 1877 a new era began when the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) began building a railway through the park, by 1883 it was completed. 25 years after the CPR railway was completed a second line built by the Canadian National Railway. After a failed mini gold rush and farming effort, the recreational value of the park was realized in the 1920's. People came from all over to visit the park in the summer, build cabins close to the railways and enjoy everything the park had to offer. Through the dirty 30's when many were out of work right work was given to many to start building roads through the Whiteshell, this lasted right up until the the mid-50's. Allowing visitors to explore even greater areas of the Whiteshell.
In 1961, the Whiteshell was designated a provincial park, as part of a system of lands set aside for the benefit of both Manitobans and visitors. We hope you enjoy your visit to the the Falcon Lake area and the rest of the Whiteshell Provincial Park!
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