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Winnipegosis is an unincorporated urban community in the Rural Municipality of Mossey River, Manitoba, Canada. It lies at the mouth of the Mossey River on Lake Winnipegosis in west-central Manitoba. The community was once categorized as a village, but this status was relinquished on 1 January 2015 upon its amalgamation with the RM of Mossey ...
Lake Winnipegosis is a large (5,370 km 2) lake in central North America, in Manitoba, Canada, some 300 km northwest of Winnipeg. It is Canada's eleventh-largest lake. The lake's name derives from that of Lake Winnipeg, with a diminutive suffix. Winnipeg means 'big muddy waters' and Winnipegosis means 'little muddy waters'. [1]
Mossey River, also spelt Mossy River, [1] is a river in the Canadian province of Manitoba.The river begins at the Mossy River Dam at the north end of Dauphin Lake and flows north into the south end of Lake Winnipegosis at the community of Winnipegosis.
There is also a monster called Winnepogo, named for either Lake Winnipegosis or Lake Winnipeg, [2] thought possibly to be the same creature since the lakes are connected. The community of St. Laurent on the southeast shore of Lake Manitoba holds a yearly Manipogo Festival during the first week of March. [3]
Lake Winnipegosis Salt Flats Ecological Reserve is an ecological reserve located on the west of Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba, Canada. [2] It was established in 1992 under the Manitoba Ecological Reserves Act. [1] [3] It is 47.25 square kilometres (18.24 sq mi) in size. [1]
Lake Winnipegosis Salt Flats Ecological Reserve: 4,725 ha (11,680 acres) [13] Lewis Bog Ecological Reserve: 5,370 ha (13,300 acres) [14] Libau Bog Ecological Reserve: 180 ha (440 acres) [15] Little George Island Ecological Reserve: 15 ha (37 acres) [16] Long Point Ecological Reserve: 1,600 ha (4,000 acres) [17] Palsa Hazel Ecological Reserve
The Winnipegosis komatiite belt is a 150 km (93 mi) long and 30 km (19 mi) wide greenstone belt located in the Lake Winnipegosis area of central Manitoba, Canada. It has no surface exposure and was identified based on geophysical signatures and drilling during mineral exploration by Cominco during the 1990s. [ 3 ]
Winnipegosis: January 1, 2015: Rural Municipality of Mossey River: Rural municipalities. Manitoba has 116 rural municipalities. Rural municipalities of Manitoba ...