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Pipestone is a community in southwestern Manitoba, Canada.Located at the corner of Highways 2 and 83, Pipestone is approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) from either Virden or Melita, approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) to the United States border and approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) to the Saskatchewan border.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pipestone had a population of 1,422 living in 593 of its 677 total private dwellings, a change of -2.5% from its 2016 population of 1,458.
Catlinite, also called pipestone, is a type of argillite (metamorphosed mudstone), usually brownish-red in color, which occurs in a matrix of Sioux Quartzite. Because it is fine-grained and easily worked, it is prized by Native Americans , primarily those of the Plains nations , for use in making ceremonial pipes , known as chanunpas or ...
Pipestone Pass (Alberta), a pass in Banff National Park, Alberta (see List of passes of the Rocky Mountains) Pipestone River (disambiguation), any of several rivers or creeks in Canada; Pipestone Lake (Saskatchewan), a lake in southern Saskatchewan; Pipestone Lake (Manitoba), a lake in central Manitoba; Rural Municipality of Pipestone
The main reserve is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Pipestone, in whose southeastern portion it lies. The reserve is located in the unceded territory of the Dakota people in Treaty 2. [2] [3] Canupawakpa, like all Dakota reserves in Canada, are not signatories to Treaties with Canada. [4]
Highway 83 in Manitoba, south of Pipestone PTH 83 travels no further than 32 kilometres (20 mi) east of the Saskatchewan border, and comes within 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of the provincial boundary from the junction with PR 487 just north of Benito to the junction with PTH 57 .
Pipestone is an unincorporated community in central Alberta in the County of Wetaskiwin No. 10. It is approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Highway 2 and 29 kilometres (18 mi) northwest of Wetaskiwin .
Cromer, Manitoba is a village located in the Rural Municipality of Pipestone, in south-western Manitoba, Canada in a region called Westman. In 1884 the Post Office was opened at LSD 26-8-28W and was known as Elm Valley. [2] The name was changed to Cromer when the Canadian Northern Railway came through in 1907.