You're looking for an ammo can. This is an abandoned radio site on the grounds of the old Transcona Cordite Plant.
“Springfield - 1st Rural Municipality in Manitoba 1873-1973” - published by the Dugald Women's Institute in 1974 as a Centennial project for the RM of Springfield.
In 1949 the Department of National Defense acquired a portion of the north 1/2 of I -11-4E to erect a transcontinental message receiving station. Staffed by three shifts of men from the R.C.A.F. this station continued to operate in 1973. Travelers, as they drove by at night on highway No. 15, could see the red lights of the station towers.
