Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday june 28, 2004 a3 Makinak ? not so fast shutting that resident Robert Franklin maintains of a main Highway Down a Little used coffin lid say residents Here who were the Book authors made a technical error. Dusty gravel Road. Surprised to find themselves included i read somewhere you had to be under local people Arent perturbed about in the new Book ghost towns of Mani four people to be considered a ghost the inclusion in ghost towns. A Little Toba. Town. I either read that or saw it on to publicity is better than none at All even that a jumping said Franklin. If its publicity claiming you Are the gun. Helen Mulligan one half of the duo deceased. We re not dead that travelled to about 40 locations to it does to make much difference yet said Kevin document ghost towns of Manitoba has said resident Bill Mason who owns the Milne the local never heard that definition. She and co building that survived the 1930 fire. Postmaster. Author Wanda Ryder both of Portage la everyone thinks its funny being in or if they Are Prairie made up their criteria As they ghost towns. They kind of enjoy dead they re like went along she said. And residents concede the towns Days adjoining House heard a thing. It was to pick up supplies characters in most of the towns we write about Are numbered. The first time the store had been robbed we be been Here All our lives. Run Twilight zone there a no one there or just a few people. Postmaster Milne a relative Young in 85 years. Ning the store was just something to do episode death most ghost towns Are just a ploughed Ster in Makinak at age 49, is Down to 55 the thief was never caught. Said Bill. Ship first aired Field now said Mulligan. Customers. That a when i said to Heck with it. It Makinak also lost two vacant houses feb. 7/63 who what attracted them to Makinak is also Bill and Rose Mason 91 and 90 was time to quit said Bill. Recently. The houses were moved out perish but refuse to acknowledge it. That it was once such a bustling town years of age respectively recently in truth the couple Only sold a handful one to be made into a Small barn and Makinak population 10, is located versus today. Closed their general store. They have of items at the end including milk one into a Chicken House. About 290 Kilometres Northwest of win there is just something about the Iso run it since 1948. Bill a dad operated the bread potato chips chocolate bars and Makinak is either an aboriginal word Peg South of Dauphin. Lation of Makinak and How the big fire store before that from 1919-48. Cigarettes. Meaning Good Trail or a Cree word the Community is expecting an influx wiped it the masons finally closed up after the also last year the milk and bread meaning Turtle because the town is of this year. Two people Are rumoured the big fire of 1930 burned Down store was broken into on a thanksgivi trucks stopped making deliveries near the Turtle River according to ghost to be moving in. Percentage Wise that a every building on main Street except ing weekend night last year. The thief because the amounts were too Small. Towns. The town was founded in 1896. Equivalent to Winnipeg growing by one the general store and the town made off with $400 Worth of cigarettes. They said they weren to making any 125,000 people. Never recovered. Makinak is located off neither of the masons sleeping in an so the masons went to Dauphin. ;