Morden (Manitoba)

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Location in Manitoba
Morden (Manitoba)
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State : CanadaCanada Canada
Province : Manitoba
Region: Pembina valley
Coordinates : 49 ° 12 ′  N , 98 ° 6 ′  W Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′  N , 98 ° 6 ′  W
Height : 302  m
Area : 12.44 km²
Residents : 7812 (as of 2011)
Population density : 628 inhabitants / km²
Time zone : Central Time ( UTC − 6 )
Postal code : R6M
Website : www.mordenmb.com
Morden beach.

Morden is a place in the Canadian province of Manitoba , about 80 km southwest of the provincial capital Winnipeg .

Murders, just 25 kilometers north of the border with the US state of North Dakota in the heavily agricultural unused prairie landscape of the Pembina Valley . Many municipal services are organized jointly with Winkler , 10 km to the west .

history

The place was created as a stop on the Canadian Pacific Railway , whose steam locomotives at the crossing of Dead Horse Creek (French: Mort Cheval ) took up water. On January 1, 1882 , the municipality of Morden was established in the then 12 years young and still much smaller province of Manitoba. The name goes back to Alvey Morden , who came from Ontario in 1874 and was one of the first settlers in what is now the city.

politics

Brandon Burley has been mayor since October 2018.

Sights and events

A key facility is the Canadian Fossil Discovery Center , home to Canada's largest collection of marine reptile fossils. In 1974 a skeleton was discovered north of Thornhill, the recovery of which lasted two excavation periods. Around 65 to 70% of the bones have been preserved. Bruce is considered to be the world's largest find of its kind.

The Morden Corn & Apple Festival is also of supraregional importance . It originated in 1967 as a small village festival and developed into one of the largest street festivals in Manitoba with around 70,000 visitors over three days.

traffic

About 4 kilometers northeast is the airport Morden Airport (CJA3)

Personalities

Footnotes

  1. ^ Morden Census 2011 - Statistics Canada , accessed December 29, 2012
  2. ^ Along the Creek and through the woods
  3. ↑ see History of Murder ( Memento from May 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Greg Vermeulen: Brandon Burley becomes mayor of Morden. In: The Morden Times. October 25, 2018, accessed February 15, 2019 (Canadian English).
  5. ↑ Meet Bruce. In: Canadian Fossil Discovery Center. Retrieved February 15, 2019 (Canadian English).
  6. ^ Corn & Apple. Retrieved February 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Morden Flying Club. Retrieved February 19, 2019 .