How Winnipeg Fought The 1918 Spanish Flu

In the winter 1919, there were echoes of the Middle Ages in Brandon, Mb. as men with horses and carts made their way through the town collecting the bodies of those who died during the night, to await mass burial in the spring. The hardest hit region of the entire province was Northern Manitoba. Cross Lake lost 125 people and Norway house lost nearly 20% of their community. As well there is a mass grave at Sagkeeng First Nation as a result of the overwhelming number of deaths.

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