Large sized cache hidden close to the Concrete Jungle. Lots of room for trackables and trading items. Bonus points to whoever can figure out why I named the cache what I did!!
Here’s a neat little write up explaining the history of this place. Credit for the write up goes to the Manitoba Historical Society website.
“In May 1963, BACM announced plans to build an 8.5 million dollar cement-manufacturing plant in Winnipeg using limestone quarried at Steeprock and Lily Bay, with locally dug clay to make Portland cement. The subsidiary to operate the plant was to be known as the British-American Cement Company. This was just a month after another firm, Inland Cement, announced similar plans for an 8 million dollar plant in Winnipeg. This was all in addition to the existing Canada Cement Plant at Fort Whyte. Industry analysts observed that, if two new plants were built, they would produce almost triple the amount of cement required by Manitoba’s entire construction industry. Three cement plants were not needed in Manitoba.
In November 1963, the driving of concrete piles for BACM’s cement plant commenced here. Each of the piles had a series of numbers written into its concrete when wet. The numbers represent the date on which the pile was made, so workers would know when a pile had sufficient strength to withstand the stress of being pounded into the ground, and its length in feet. The piles at this site are 50, 55, and 60 feet in length.
In June 1964, Inland Cement announced it had purchased the site from BACM. The deal came on the heels of an April 1964 decision by the Winnipeg city council to give all of the city’s cement business to Inland, whose plant was in Saskatchewan, despite protests from the local Canada Cement that they deserved some of the deal. Eventually, Inland Cement went ahead with its plans for a new cement plant, and built a facility on Kenaston, that was recently abandoned, and then demolished.”
As of today, the original BACM land sits unused and for all intensive purposes; abandoned.
Please exercise caution in and around the pillar areas and replace the cache as found so the adventure stays the same for future geocachers!! Thank you!!