Grand Rapids, Manitoba

Grand Rapids
Location in Manitoba
Grand Rapids
State :	Canada
Province :	Manitoba
Region:	Northern region
Coordinates :	53 ° 11 ′  N , 99 ° 16 ′  W Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′  N , 99 ° 16 ′  W
Height :	221  m
Area :	85.95 km²
Residents :	336 (as of 2006)
Population density :	3.9 inhabitants / km²
Time zone :	Central Time ( UTC − 6 )
Postal code :	R0C

Grand Rapids is a town in the Canadian province of Manitoba and is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Winnipeg near the mouth of the Saskatchewan River . The place got its name from the rapids of the river shortly before the mouth. The site of the Fort Bourbon trading post used to be when most of the east-west traffic in what is now Canada crossed the Saskatchewan River and the rapids had to be negotiated. Since the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s , this travel and trade route is no longer important and the place lives mainly from fishing and tourism . The founding date 1962 refers to the point in time when the municipality acquired its own municipal status as a town . At the time of greater importance there was still no province of Manitoba (founded in 1870) and also no state of Canada (founded in 1867), the area belonged to Rupert's Land and thus fell under the administrative sovereignty of the Hudson's Bay Company . From 1870 it was part of the Northwest Territories and it was not until the border expansion in 1912 that it became part of Manitoba.

Personalities

• Ovide Mercredi , 1991–97 leader of the First Nations Congregation

Web links

• Community data ( Memento from October 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Grand Rapids in the 2006 Canadian Population Statistics

Footnotes

1. ↑ see e.g. B. Diary of Richard Scougall Cassels, 10./11. July 1885, in Reminiscence of a Bungle, By One of the Bunglers, and Two Other Northwest Rebellion Diaries , ISBN 0-88864-077-3 .