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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Beaconia Cairn (Beaconia, RM of St. Clements)This monument at Beaconia, in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements, commemorates a Danish immigrant named August Larson who, around 1896, settled in a cove behind an island on the southeast shore of Lake Winnipeg, later named Balsam Bay. He shipped wood by barge down the lake and along the Red River. Needing a means of finding his way home in the dark, he built a beacon on the lakeshore, lit by fish oil. When the Canadian Northern Railway reached the area in 1900, it named the station near here for Larson’s beacon.
Sources:This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and George Penner. Page revised: 4 July 2020
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