The Easterville Sasquatch  In the '60s, many people reported seeing a large hairy creature along Highway 327 south of Easterville on Cedar Lake in northern Manitoba. The beast was often thought to be a sasquatch, the "wild ape" of the Pacific Northwest that had somehow ended up in Manitoba, Rutkowski said. Sasquatch sightings have also been reported in Riding Mountain National Park, near the Lily Pond north of West Hawk Lake and a few years ago on the Jenpeg Highway.

    Eastman Region  Between Beausejour, which is northeast of Winnipeg, and Lac du Bonnet, which is northeast of Beausejour, lies a region of many Sasquatch sightings. A man from Lac du Bonnet described the appearance of an "overgrown ape or monkey" about six foot six inches, with dark hair or fur, on the road to Pointe du Bois one night in July 1974. A youth saw and heard a huge, hairy thumping on the trunk of his car as he made a U - turn on a road near Beausejour one night in June 1975. Another youth reported a seven or eight foot creature approaching his stopped car on the road between Beausejour and Lac du Bonnet. The creature left fifteen-inch footprints in the snow which could be followed for more than seven miles. These and other reports from the region come from John Green's Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us. (1978).

    Northern Manitoba  Sasquatch sightings south of Cedar Lake were reported following the construction of the new road through the bush country. The road connects the small community of Easterville with the highway that leads north to Grand Rapids. Cedar Lake lies west of the northern part of Lake Winnipeg.

    Northern Interlake  John Green in Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us (1978) reports on some of the sightings on the road renowned for its Sasquatch sightings. On August 23, 1968, three men stopped their car about four miles west of the junction of Highway 6 because they saw "something" walk out of the bush about a hundred yards away and onto the road. It walked like a man but was much too large and covered all over with short hair. "The men left hurriedly." Two days later, near the Easterville end of the road, two other men spotted a similar creature. "They too drove off in a hurry." Indian residents of Easterville and three non-Indian teachers at Easterville school all reported sightings while driving along the road, usually at night. One observer described a dark man-like figure hurdling over willows and small bushes with long strides. Another compared the creature with the color and size of a moose yet it jumped over things like a man. A third slammed on the car's brakes to avoid hitting a dark thing, estimated to stand nine feet tall, extremely broad, with a flat-profiled face. The Indians at Easterville whisper about the windigo; the non-Indians joke about the Sasquatch.

    The Pas area  The so-called Uchtmann Tracks are photographs of three giant footprints twenty-one inches long and seven inches wide. The tracks were discovered by accident in an old ant hill on a limestone ridge on the shore of Landry Lake, which lies southeast of The Pas. The photographs were taken on September 9, 1974 by their discoverer, R.H. Uchtmann, a provincial conversation officer, who sent the evidence to the Manitoba Museum of Man, along with an explanatory letter. The Uchtmann Tracks and the interesting letter appear in John Green's Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us (1978). Uchtmann referred to the tracks as "some human footprints," yet he wondered about the size of the human that left those prints. He explained.

I was moose hunting at the time I found the three tracks. My impression at the time was that they were not man made and that they fitted no animals in the area. They were sharp and clear at the time and were made after the rainfall on September 25..... There is the possibility of someone having made the prints but this strikes me as being highly unlikely. The prints were approximately 1/4 mile from a bush trail passable to vehicles. Back along the road 200 yards is a dike across a creek on the north end of Landry Lake. It seems more likely that someone creating a hoax would have placed the prints on the dike where there would be more chance of seeing them.

    North-East Manitoba
The R.C.M.P. Report

The Polar River Indian Reserve is located south of Norway House on the east coast of Lake Winnipeg. The chief of the reserve, bothered by reports of "a large hairy animal that walks on two legs," alerted the RCMP detachment at Norway House. Officers of the detachment made an investigation, and then sent the following report by telex to the Force's Vancouver Lower Mainland Division. The text is reproduced by John Green in Sasquatch: The Apes Among Us (1978).

It was reported to our office on July 26, 1976 by the chief of the Polar River Indian Band that many of his people have sighted on the reserve many times a large hairy animal that walks on two legs. Polar River is located approx. 76 miles to the south of Norway House. An investigation was conducted and the results are as follows:

Several people were interviewed and they all stated that the animal was approximately seven to eight feet tall and was very broad at the shoulders. It had the general body structure of a man only many times larger. A foot cast was taken of the foot impression that was left behind by the so-called monster and is held at this detachment. It measures 16 inches by five inches, and has only three toes. It's fur is a glossy gray color and it has white hair on it's head. They stated that it was very powerfully built and one man reported that he saw it swimming. To date there have been no further reports of sightings in our area. It should be noted that this so-called monster seemed very inquisitive towards the people and would come around the houses on the settlement and look in doors and windows.