This monument in Dominion City in the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin is an original size reproduction of Manitoba’s biggest sturgeon, weighing 406 pounds, measuring 15½ feet long, aged at 150 years, a female full of eggs, that was caught in the Roseau River east of Dominion City by Sandy Waddell on 27 October 1903. Hauled home in a seven-foot democrat by a team of horses, five feet of this monster fish still trailed on the ground. It is located beside the First Railway Monument.
Manitoba’s Biggest Sturgeon Monument (August 2010)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.14235, W97.15601
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This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 January 2021
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