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Get there: Haliburton County, south of Minden where the Gelert Rd. and Sedgwick Rds. meet.

There are 2 churches, school, 2 stores, old homes, town hall still standing.

Gelert began as a sawmill village and at times had been called Little Ireland, Snowdonville and Minden Station. First settled in 1860, Gelert was thriving in the late 1800s- especially after the 1878 of the Victoria Railway.

By the 1890s, Gelert had a post office, 2 general stores (both still standing), a shingle mill, a sawmill, a carpet mill, a blacksmith, a hotel, a carpenter, a shoemaker, a wagon maker, churches and a school.

Depleting farm soils (a common problem on the Canadian Shield) and losses of timber stands in forest fires are blamed for sending the village into decline. The post office closed in 1969 and CN removed the rail lines in 1980.

The cemetery at the east side of town is the resting place of a number of early Finnish settlers.

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[SouthernPt]

Great video!!! Thanks for taking us along, that Church was awesome...a shame it is not being kept up!!! Such beautiful stained glass....what great finds could be found around that place!!!.....Congrats on the silver and hope your find turns out to be the real gold....it sure is looking good!!!

Happy Hunting!!!

[locodigger]

Howdy..:)

I really hope they try to remove and save the stained glass b4 the church colapses..harder n harder to find places like this still standing lol tx HH

[RJRude]

Looks like a good set for a horror movie.

[locodigger]

lol eeeeek wats the movie title lololol?

[neswiper]

That old church gives me the creeps. You walked right in there like you owned the place. LOL - GOLD!!! 5*

[locodigger]

lmao old...creepy...door wide open wewt!!! I luv it :) gold I hope will know buy the end of weekend ..heading down to big city Sunday metal detecting club hunt will keep u informed HH

[pkrska]

It would take me 3 hour and 6 minutes to drive to the location. Wow, that's a lot of gas. Unless I'm finding gold there, hmmm...... we'll have to wait for cheaper gas!

[zekehooper]

what would happen if you did metal detect with out permision? Just do it at night.....That wouldn't be scarry at all..LOL.

[granskare]

fun...here I am searching for Finland metal detecting and I end up in Canada :) but it's a nice video so thanks

[locodigger]

yea problem exists to get that owner to alow ..we will definetly try..b4 long

[locodigger]

hmmm stealth mode lmao