THE "ROCK OF GIBRALTER" IN THE
GRAND BEACH PROVINCIAL PARK TOWNSITE
MANITOBA, CANADA

      While I was visiting in the Grand Beach Town site a few weeks ago, I drove by this giant "rock".   I have many memories of it.  As a small boy in the early 30's, I played on it.  We loved to slide down the gentle slope on its eastern side.  But, we were very careful when we climbed to its top, because the other (western) side was a "sheer" drop to the ground.  Many youngsters have been injured playing on this rock.  The rock is approximately sixteenth to eighteen feet in height and about 20 feet in width at its bottom side.

     A young lady came by, and I asked her what people now call the giant rock.  She told me that it is now know simply as "THE ROCK".

      She was surprised to learn that in a "bygone" generation at Grand Beach, that everyone knew the "rock" as "THE ROCK OF GIBRALTER".  It received this name because of its large size. With its sheer western side, it appears to be a miniature of the sheer rock face of Gibralter at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.

      The "ROCK OF GIBRALTER" is located just east of the intersection of Third Avenue and Third Street, in the Grand Beach Provincial Park Townsite.