Gladstone Manitoba visit us for golfing fishing hunting and camping hiking bird watching wildlife biking trails . Discovery Smithsonian Education EXN Gladstone is located in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba. The area is known for its agriculturally based economy with such crops as wheat, canola, barley, oats, flax, and potatoes being grown on a large scale.
Various livestock is raised to produce beef, pork, poultry, and dairy products.
Gladstone is in close proximity to Manitoba's two largest urban centers - Winnipeg and Brandon. The distances to Winnipeg and Brandon are 150 kilometers and 105 kilometers respectively. Gladstone was first settled in 1872 with the area then known as Palestine, and a year later the first public school was built. The settlers faced difficult times in the 1870s due to the depression and crop devastation by insects. Businesses began to appear after the economy started to recover and in 1879 the Gladstone Age Press newspaper went to print.