About Places:
Places are posts dedicated to mulitple places in and around Uranium City, contributed by various people who have stories about their time in Uranium City and the area.
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Gunnar Mines Part 1
Though I was born two years after the Gunnar Mine shut down, Gunnar has always been personal for me. My father’s first boss, Foster Irwin, was Gunnar’s last mine manager, and that connection, along with hearing stories about the town and meeting people who lived there, made it a familiar place when I was a […]
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Goldfields: The First Boom Town
Before Uranium City, there was Goldfields. Nestled in a bay on Lake Athabasca, Goldfields was the white man’s first toehold on the north shore of Lake Athabasca. The town sprang up to serve the gold mine across the bay, the Box mine and mill. the Box Mine had been discovered by two prospectors, Tom Box […]
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Sun Dogs and Yellowcake, Extract from Chapter 8:
Sun Dogs and Yellowcake, Extract from Chapter 8: The lucky and the not-so-lucky By Patricia Sandberg The only road out of Gunnar led to the airport. If you did not fly out, the only other options were to traverse the lake in a boat after breakup or drive the winter road. Driving the winter road […]
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My Memories of Rix Athabasca Mines and Uranium City 1957 – ’60
By Del Trobak Deckman dumping ore from a cart. All photos courtesy of Del Trobak. @copyright Del Trobak, except “a miner’s dream” @copyright Rio Tinto. ‘Rix Athabasca From the air courtesy of Edgar Oliver. I was born in East- Central Saskatchewan, and raised on a farm. After graduating high school in 1956, I worked as […]