TAKE HOME THE GOLD
Sultana Gold Blonde Ale is the first beer we offered in can format waaaay back in 2014. Sultana is easy drinking yet flavourful, light to medium-bodied, with bready and biscuit notes and a smooth finish. A beer that’ll soon be your fridges favourite. SEE THE SPEC SHEET.
THE SULTANA STORY
Sultana is one of the most famous gold mines on the Lake of the Woods. The original claim was staked in November 1888 by Henry Bulmer, who sold the 27 acre property to a group of fifteen men who called themselves the Ontario Mining Company. Mining operations commenced in the summer of 1892 when three small veins were discovered in the rock.
LAKE OF THE WOODS GOLD RUSH
Gold in Lake of the Woods, a phrase which captured the interest and capital of miners and investors alike, during the area’s great, if brief, moment of glory as one of the country’s richest gold fields. During the early 1880s gold was discovered and by the 1890s, Sultana Mine had become known as the chief mine of the Western gold fields. Lake of the Woods mines produced 55% of Ontario’s gold and by 1899 the highest production of gold was reached, chiefly from three local mines, the Regina, Mikado and Sultana.
MORE ABOUT THE SULTANA MINE
Sultana Mine, located on Sultana Island operated from 1892 to 1906 with a peak work force of 85 and a main shaft of 545 feet deep. by 1905 production began to dwindle and disagreements among the operators of the mine and severe flooding caused the mine to close permanently. The island is currently privately owned, but people have been known to stop by and have a look around from time-to-time.
