Pieces of Dryden’s history are on display at the Ontario Legislature.
The Dryden and District Museum’s exhibit titled “Gold Rush, Gold Rock, Ghost Town” is currently being showcased in Toronto.
Cultural and Tourism Coordinator Bethany Waite says the exhibit shows the impacts of the local gold rush in the 1890’s.
Waite says it brought people to the area and helped develop the forestry industry as logs were needed to build structures for the mines as well as homes and a school.
She notes about 200 workers and their families moved to the area within five years of gold being discovered just south of Wabigoon.
Waite stresses it’s important to show others from around the province what our local history is all about.
