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Kenora Rat Portage lakefront

Lake shore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Rat Portage grew on the CPR and Lake of the Woods traffic from the 1880s, with sawmills, flour mills and gold-camp supply along the shore.

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