Sherridon, Manitoba is an unincorporated community in
Manitoba, Canada.
History
Sherridon originated as the service centre for the nearby
Sherritt Gordon nickel mines. The mine closed in 1952, resulting in the equipment and many of the workers and families relocating to Lynn Lake. In 1949 the first house from Sherridon was sleighed to
Lynn Lake as a test run over the of
cat train
A Cat train is a train of one or more supply sleds/sleighs hauled by a continuous track vehicle, and is typically used in roadless areas. They are so named for the caterpillar tracks of the hauling vehicle.
In northern climates, they were used t ...
trails. Over the next three years, 208 buildings were moved to Lynn Lake from Sherridon. Houses, stores, banks and churches were loaded on sleighs and pulled by caterpillar tractors over the ice and snow to Lynn Lake.
The historic four-storey Hotel Cambrian, one of the only early 20th century buildings in the community not moved to Lynn Lake, was destroyed by fire on June 2, 2012. At the time of the fire the hotel was unoccupied, in a state of disrepair, and had been disconnected from electricity. The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police consider the fire suspicious.
A recent gold mine, operated by Pioneer Metals at Puffy Lake, closed in 1989.
Geography
The community is on the
OmniTRAX rail line to Lynn Lake about north of
The Pas.
Pukatawagan Reserve is further north of Sherridon. A community-access gravelled road was constructed as part of the Puffy Lake Mine development, and the community is now connected to
Provincial Trunk Highway 10 (PTH 10) between
Cranberry Portage
Cranberry Portage is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district located in the Rural Municipality of Kelsey, Manitoba. It was an important part of the pre-European contact trade routes of the Cree and Assiniboine peoples. L ...
and
Flin Flon.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, Sherridon had a population of 56 living in 20 of its 31 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 99. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
References
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Designated places in Manitoba
Northern communities in Manitoba