This cache and several others have been receintly published with the idea in mind of helping local geocachers earn new souvenirs from Geocaching which are:
3, 2, 1 Go! Souvenir Challenge
3, 2, 1 Go! Souvenir Challenge requires you to go on at least six geocaching outings during the three weeks from December 11, 2019 through January 1, 2020. You can log a geocache or attend an Event Cache on any six days during the three weeks, or two times per week, the choice is yours! Earn a 3, 2, 1 Go! souvenir when you do. The sooner you start, the more likely you’ll be to succeed. Are you ready?
Goodbye 2019 Souvenir / Hello 2020 Souvenir
Earn the Goodbye 2019 souvenir by finding any geocache or attending an event on December 31, 2019.
Earn the Hello 2020 souvenir by finding another geocache or attending a different event on January 1, 2020.
(Any cache that is found or Event that is attended on December 31 or January 1 will count towards both your souvenir for the “3, 2, 1 Go!” and “Goodbye 2019/Hello 2020” challenges.)
The Manitoba Historical Society was founded in June 1879 by an Act of the Manitoba Legislature. The Manitoba Historical Society (MHS) is the oldest organization in western Canada devoted to the promotion of public interest in, and preservation of, the region's historical resources. The MHS mandate is to: encourage research and publications relating to the history of Manitoba; promote and encourage public interest in Manitoba and Canadian history; foster the preservation of property relating to the history of Manitoba; assist in the formation and work of local historical societies in furthering the objectives of the Society throughout Manitoba. It is to function as a library, museum, and archives. The Manitoba Historical Society has provided the foundations for the present Winnipeg Public Library, the Manitoba Museum, and the Archives of Manitoba.
To help with it's mandate, the MHS has accumulated a data base of historical buildings, sites, cairns, and other structures (ex: bridges) for which it maintains a file photo, maps and genealogy available to the public for study and research. It is from this data that sites in Manitoba have been found by geocachers who have placed caches in the vicinity to educate others and bring them out to see Manitoba's history. This is one of those locations.
A lonely wooden grain elevator in Makinak, on the CNR Gladestone Subdivision in what is now the Rural Municipality of Lakeshore, was constructed in 1957. A former elevator at the site was converted into an annex at that time. A new crib annex was built in 1969 and the earlier one was demolished in 1987, when three steel tanks were constructed beside the elevator. Renovations to the elevator occurred in 1971, 1979, and 1987. Closed in April 2001, the elevator is now used for private grain storage. These iconic symbles of the Prairies are almost all gone so “see it before it's gone”!