Interesting series, but it's sad that all this abandonment is "evocative of the history of Manitoba".

I have driven past this site hundreds of times and now I know what it actually was. Thank you for researching and sharing. So interesting.

I'm also fascinated how ideas started and just went forward with them and in doing so would spark competition in other areas or similar producers. Case in point the story here where another company thus buys out the rising phoenix...and returns it to ashes! Today we have NO dreamers that DO because of hinderance, cost and other paper weight resources before an idea even becomes remotely something of hand and foot! Heaven forbid if something built now doesn't have internet LOL.

Acoustically Inclined did a photoshoot here for publicity pictures...

My father was a foreman and crane operator building the biggest Trans Canada bridges in Kenora and Kapuskasing driving much bigger piles than those , them ones are drive tested before being passed for safety standards for construction sites .

Used to have parties there in the 90's. Place was called the pillars.

Interestingly, this site may now be being used as a concrete test site after all! There was reference on a FB thread to the U of M Faculty of Engineering using it for concrete pile testing, as of 2023, with sources cited (i.e. the supervising professor’s name & participating grad students).

yay

Thanks for that. Although I have lived in New Zealand for nearly forty years I grew up in St. Charles Winnipeg and was recently back (late summer) there. I spent a lot of time touring around on a bicycle and I'm pretty sure I went past these concrete posts wondering what they were intended for.

Never seen a video about concrete that was so interesting! Well done my friend

someone should be responsible for cleaning that mess up

So are there ley lines running through here? 🤫

It was a handful of rich people that owned the forest industry..They wanted to destroy the cement industry so they came up with a great scheme to pull it off...They called it Climate Change...

Cool

This is a great video showing some history of manitoba.

From the air they look like figure 8's or the infinity sign.

Maybe some of that concrete was used in the flooding and water diversions by hydro in the north

But what do Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest?

I am guessing this is where the blood cult performed there rituals I between running the city into the ground and destroying lives.

i hate click-bait bs.

Quite beautiful really. Thank you Gordon.

I thought that 2as Dave Letterman in the thumbnail, interesting video btw.

Looks like a blowfish pattern.

Thanks Gord! Not sure I would have recognized you with that Dr Hare like beard :)

Where Barkman products go to die...

How come no one talks about the status that are in Gramdale manitoba, they are quite the sight .an a lot of hard work.

It would have been appropriate to have mentioned where this site is located!

There is some sacred geometry alignment to this area.

I just went by there a couple weeks ago, before seeing this video today. I was thinking someone had not secured proper permits. I had never seen it before and would not have put that many years behind it. Very interesting 👍

There are a few problems I see with your explanation that maybe you could address. 1) Buildings, expectantly silos, would normally use unified piles, Maybe different ones around the edges. Why would then have random sizes, shapes? 2) If you look closely at the pliers, they are each made differently. Why would they make each pillar different? 3) Why would there be serial numbers on the pillars? Lot numbers sure. Maybe even a 2 or 3 different lot numbers. But not different numbers for each pillar like your trying to keep track of different formulas. 4) If this was for a structure, why would you carve letters into them. This would be a no no as you wouldn’t want to give it a place for stress fractures to start and water/ice to destroy the concrete. Also, notice they are all labelled by hand. 5) why would they back fill the area with different kinds of soil? Surly they would have just picked one and gone with that. Or more likely not back fill at all. 6) Notice that the piles were not cut to height. 7) And of course. Why would they have done this in 1950 for a company that was going to buy the area and build a silo in 1963? These are of just the obvious ones that I noticed. So I’m sure they came up during your research plus other not so obvious ones. I would really like to know the answers.

Would love to see more of these. Been to a lot of really cool abandoned places in the province it would be neat to hear history on some of the strange lesser know ones!

I remember seeing these as a kid.

MORE MANITOBA VIDEOS this is great ❤️❤️❤️

Not sure if "Abandonded" in the title is intentional or not (I'm guessing not). But just an FYI it might be a spelling mistake.

Interesting backstory... I had heard that the Manitoba Development Corp (gov't agency) had subsidized the company to invest in building a plant in Manitoba, and the next payment was conditioned on their having started construction. LOL -- We all like to blame the gov't, right?

Thx Gord! A friend and I used to climb these suckers when we were kids...hands on one, feet on another.

When I was young I was told the same story of it being a test sight. Thanks for clearing this up. Very interesting

Very interesting FYI, Inland has a cement facility in north Wpg.

I was disappointed when he said now we have zero. Canada can't produce anything anymore. I never really knew what free trade was and I think I found out through this pandemic . Canada and the US moved all their factories into Asian hands. Look at your product everything made in China or somewhere else Asian. North America can't even make anything and when the pandemic came Canada could not even make a simple paper mask. United States is a more interesting story the head office for 3M was actually still functioning only really low level as they sold off all their factories offshore to me it was like Battlestar Galactica the last functioning factory kicked into gear in the US and the last 3M plant started to make more masks. They were lucky they never shut down completely the very last US manufacturer. Poetic just like a movie. But Canada had nothing. Giving everything a country is to the Asians or for anywhere cheap labor is the fastest route to destroying the country all for greed the almighty dollar. You and I kept buying the cheap products but the government and the middleman made the most money just selling out their own country. I didn't even mention the thousands of jobs lost that's another story

Can you do something on the old military communications site on the northeast corner of PR 207 and Dugald Rd? I recall there being a forest of radio towers there when I was a kid in the 1960s. Along the northern edge of that tract of land, there appears to be a military style fence (along Corbett Rd.).

Fascinating! I'm no expert, but if you are driving piles, wouldn't you drive each pile in turn to the required depth? You can only drive one pile at a time. These piles don't seem to be all at the same depth. Even if construction was halted, what you would have is all the pikes that were worked on at the same level, then some piles missing. Well that's my logic anyway. Perhaps there is more to be uncovered. Also some piles have a reference number scraped into them. Do they all have the same number? I would think that would be a manufacturing lot number.

Where is this. I like to go there to visit.

Most likely it was Aliens , I mean why not just go with the most probable solution to a question 😝

Gordon. This is very impressive. By the way. I live in Winnipeg and I'm curious to check this out.

Who OS the narrator??

Thank you, I always thought it was a concrete test facility also and that's what me parents told me. Great story.

What an interesting revelation about the cement heads of corporate Canada in the 1960s!

Seems accurate for Winnipeg

Interesting

Google map 'Cement Cemetery' and you will find it is located at Sturgeon Road and Farmer Rd...Not too far Little Mountain Park.