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Over the course of its history, the province of Manitoba has witnessed numerous of its populated communities experience decline to become ghost towns.Triggers were usually changes in economic conditions, such as natural resource prices or resource depletion, or changes in transportation networks, such as rail alignment selection, rail line closures and highway realignments.
Port Nelson is a ghost town on Hudson Bay, in Manitoba, Canada, at the mouth of the Nelson River. Its peak population in the early 20th century was about 1,000 people. [1] Immediately to the south-southeast is the mouth of the Hayes River and the settlement of York Factory. Some books use 'Port Nelson' to mean the region around the mouths of ...
Y. York Factory. Categories: Populated places in Manitoba. Ghost towns in Canada. Buildings and structures in Manitoba.
Cities and towns in Manitoba. A town is an incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Manitoba. [1] Under current legislation, a community must have a minimum population of 1,000 and a minimum density of 400 people per square kilometre to incorporate as an urban municipality. [2]
4.4/km 2 (11/sq mi) Website. bissettcc.com. Bissett is a community situated on Rice Lake in the southeastern region of Manitoba, Canada, classified as a northern community and designated place. [1] Located two and a half hours northeast of Winnipeg on Provincial Road 304, Bissett is an entry point to Nopiming Provincial Park.
Fort Maurepas (Canada) Fort Maurepas was the name of two forts, or one fort in two locations, built by the French in the Lake Winnipeg area in the 1730s: They were both named after Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (from the city of Maurepas) who, as Minister of Marine, was in charge of French colonies and chief adviser to King ...
Kleefeld (/ ˈklifɛld /; German pronunciation: [ˈkleːfɛlt]; German: clover field, Plautdietsch: Kleefelt /ˈklɔɪ̯fɛlt/) is a local urban district located in the Rural Municipality of Hanover, Manitoba, Canada. It was settled in 1874, the first Mennonite settlement in Western Canada, and was originally called Gruenfeld (German: Grünfeld ...
1997. Lockport Provincial Park is a Manitoba provincial park on the east shore of the Red River in the community of Lockport, Manitoba. [1] It is 2.26 ha (5.6 acres) in size. [2] Lockport Provincial Park is the location of an important archeological site in Manitoba. [3] From 1984 to 1988, the Manitoba Historic Resources Branch worked on ...