Red Lake Gold!
Red Lake Gold !
Red Lake is a municipality with town status in the Canadian province of Ontario, located 535 km (332 mi) northwest of Thunder Bay and less than 100 km (62 mi) from the Manitoba border.
The municipality consists of six small communities, Balmertown, Cochenour, Madsen, McKenzie Island, Red Lake and Starratt-Olse and had a population of 4,107 people in the Canada 2016 Census.
The name of the town comes from a local legend telling of two men from the Chippewa tribe who stumbled across a large moose. The men proceeded to kill the moose, the blood of which drained into a nearby lake. The blood turned the lake’s waters red in colour, ultimately giving the area its name. The moniker appears on the Bouchette map of 1875, and was officially approved on 7 December 1909.
The town experienced a sudden surge of economic, industrial and population growth with the development of the gold mines. By 1936, Red Lake’s Howey Bay airport was the busiest in the world, with more flights landing and taking off per hour than any other. In 1995 Goldcorp, the then owners of the Red Lake Mine, discovered that it contains the world’s richest grade gold ore (two troy ounces of gold per metric ton).
A Big Fish Makes A Huge Splash
Sam Boucha and her boyfriend, Brad Molloy know these facts all too well when they set out last Friday to do some ice fishing on Red Lake. As fate would have it, their sled was not running great that day, so they decided to stop at a different spot than they normally would have done.When Sam noticed the rod she had set up went down, her boyfriend went to check it out. Feeling the dead weight of the fish, she managed to reel in a 57 3/4 inch, 31-inch girth, 57 plus pound Trout. Unfortunately, the fish did not survive the battle. She does plan to have it mounted for posterity and has donated the pectoral fin and an ocular bone to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry for research and to get the fish’s age. Courtesy Of Jasmine Kabatay
The long winters are ideal for the local snowmobilers and for ice fishing, although the wind is often very cold and temperatures may drop to below −35 °C (−31 °F). During the summer, the area experiences a moderate climate with little humidity, which is ideal for fishing, camping, boating, canoeing, and hiking. Red Lake contains several types of fish including Walleye, Northern Pike, Lake Trout, Whitefish and Sauger.
It is proof positive, not all the gold is in the mine.
