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Thompson is a city in north-central Manitoba, Canada, the largest city and most populated municipality in Northern Manitoba. [6]Situated along the Burntwood River, Thompson is located 210 kilometres (130 mi) north of Lake Winnipeg and 761 km (473 mi) north of the City of Winnipeg.
Thompson is a rural municipality (RM) in the Pembina Valley Region of Manitoba, Canada. It had a population of 1,259 according to the Canada 2006 Census. The RM was incorporated on 1 November 1908. It took its name from an early settler and its first postmaster, William Thompson.
Pages in category "Thompson, Manitoba" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Gordon Wilbert Beard (September 27, 1921 – November 12, 1972) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba Legislature from 1963 to 1968, and an independent member from 1969 to 1972. [1] Born in 1921, Beard was educated at Neepawa schools, [1] [2] and worked in a variety of projects in ...
The original (urban) community of Leaf Rapids is on Manitoba Provincial Road 391, although most of the large official town created later lies east of this community. This town is as large as a typical Rural Municipality in the more southern parts of Manitoba. An all-weather road connects the community to Thompson, Lynn Lake, and South Indian ...
Cities and towns in Manitoba. Manitoba is one of the three Prairie provinces located in Western Canada. [1] According to the 2021 Canadian census, it is the fifth most populous province in Canada with 1,342,153 inhabitants, and the sixth largest province by land area, covering 540,310.19 square kilometres (208,614.93 sq mi).
Wellington "Duke" DeCoursey founded the newspaper in 1960 after moving to Thompson from Dauphin, Manitoba, where he published the Central Manitoba News.DeCoursey started other local newspapers, including the News of the North and the Birch River Reporter, as well as authoring books on Canada's north and early Alberta.
South Indian Lake is an Indian settlement located on the southeast shore of Southern Indian Lake in northern Manitoba, Canada, about 130 km (81 mi) north of the city of Thompson by air. [1] It had a population of 981 in 2016, and is the main settlement of the O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation, a First Nations band government. [2]