14-519: Minnedosa may refer to: Minnedosa, Manitoba , a community in Manitoba, Canada Minnedosa (electoral district) , a political riding in the same area Minnedosa (schooner barge) , a Great Lakes grain barge that sank in 1905 SS Minnedosa , 1918 passenger ship for Canadian Pacific Railways Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
28-414: A bridge was built in 1879, the ferry became obsolete and at the same time, a small town, Tanner's Crossing, was started nearby. John Armitage moved to the area around this time in 1877, and began to build a sawmill and gristmill . He joined together with Tanner to lay out a new town site and eventually Armitage had accumulated 3,800 acres (15 km ) of property. Tanner named the new town Minnedosa, from
42-673: A period of growth from settlement schemes put forth by the Canadian government. As Minnedosa became a town, this coincided with the actual arrival of the railway in 1883, bringing about more growth for the now quickly growing settlement. A dam was proposed in 1907 and approved in December of the same year by the Government of Canada. It was built on the Little Saskatchewan River near the town. After several delays,
56-559: A population of 2,741 living in 1,210 of its 1,398 total private dwellings, a change of 11.9% from its 2016 population of 2,449. With a land area of 14.95 km (5.77 sq mi), it had a population density of 183.3/km (474.9/sq mi) in 2021. Little Saskatchewan River The Little Saskatchewan River is a river in western Manitoba . It originates in Riding Mountain National Park at Lake Audy and flows about 65 miles (105 km) south through
70-452: A result of its far inland position at a relatively high latitude, winters are extremely cold with a January mean of below −17 °C (1 °F). In the relatively short summers Minnedosa experiences warm and sometimes hot temperatures due to warmer continental air masses. It is prone to cold nights year-round, with every single month having recorded air frost . In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Minnedosa had
84-577: Is a town in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Manitoba situated 50 kilometres (32 mi) north of Brandon, Manitoba on the Little Saskatchewan River . The town's name means "flowing water" in the Dakota language . The population of Minnedosa reported in the 2021 Canadian Census was 2,741. The town is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Minto – Odanah . Prior to
98-554: The Manitoba Power Commission in 1920 and replaced by a diesel generation plant and by 1930, power from the provincial grid. The lake was used as a source of water for the town, for recreation, and for supplying the engines of the Canadian Pacific Railway . On May 4, 1948, the spillway of the dam failed due to erosion of structure, and the resulting flood damaged many homes and businesses in
112-465: The Dakota word mní dúza meaning "flowing water". Although Minnedosa once hoped to be a site of a river crossing for the Canadian Pacific Railway 's transcontinental railway , the honour was initially given to Rapid City , while the actual site of the railway was later settled on a site much further south creating the city of Brandon . In 1883 Minnedosa was incorporated as a town, it had experienced
126-511: The arrival of Europeans in the area of Minnedosa, the land was primarily travelled and used by the nomadic Ojibway , Cree , Assiniboine , and Sioux peoples. John Tanner was the grandson of John Tanner who had been raised by a Odawa . He was an American settler who arrived in the area in 1869. The younger Tanner was the first Métis settler in the area and ran a ferry service across the Little Saskatchewan River. When
140-545: The communities of Minnedosa and Rapid City . Its approximate length is 185 km. It joins the Assiniboine River about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Brandon . The watershed has an area of 1,400 square miles (3,600 km ). The watershed includes numerous lakes and three man-made reservoirs (Minnedosa Lake, Rapid City Reservoir and Lake Wahtopanah . In 1911 the Geographic Board of Canada adopted
154-521: The dam was completed in 1912, creating Minnedosa Lake . Water first flowed over the spillway on April 10, 1912. Minnedosa was the second community in the Province of Manitoba to generate its own hydroelectric power . An earlier project in 1900 was also on the Minnedosa River and supplied power to the town of Brandon, Manitoba . Initially privately owned, the generation plant was taken over by
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#1732787641536168-485: The name Minnedosa River but restored the original name in 1978. Some early settlers to the area arrived when the river was in flood and thought it was the Saskatchewan River . The maximum mean daily discharge near Rivers, Manitoba was 9,800 cubic feet (280 m ) per second on July 1, 2020, about 2.7 times the previous record from 1969. Average annual runoff is about 115,000 acre-feet (142,000,000 m ),
182-466: The title Minnedosa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minnedosa&oldid=923657786 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Minnedosa, Manitoba Minnedosa
196-671: The town. The spillway was not repaired until 1950 by the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration . Since 1981 the Minnedosa Ethanol Plant has been producing ethanol to be blended into gasoline, as of late 2007 it has been expanded into one of the largest ethanol facilities in Canada. This plant is owned and operated by Husky Energy . Minnedosa has a humid continental climate ( Köppen dfb ) typical of southern Manitoba. As
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