Minnedosa, Manitoba
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Minnedosa is a town in the Canadian province of Manitoba near . The name means "flowing water" in Sioux.
2001 population: 2,426 according to Stats Canada
The first white settler in the area was John Tanner, when he arrived in 1869. Tanner ran a ferry service across the Little Saskatchewan River. Eventually, with the arrival of the railway, the ferry became obsolete, but a small town was started nearby. A dam was built nearby between 1910 and 1912, and this created Minnedosa Lake. The current mayor (as of June, 2005) is Duane Lacoste.
Minnedosa was the first site in the Province of Manitoba to generate its own hydroelectric power by damming the Little Saskatchewan River.
Minnedosa is also the site of an annual event, called Rockin' the Fields of Minnedosa.
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[edit] =Tourist sites
- Buffalo park- located south of the Minnedosa Dam.
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[edit] Television
- CKND-TV2 Channel 2 (Global)
- CKYB Channel 4 (CTV)
- CKX-TV Channel 5 (A-Channel, CBC)
- CBWFT-10 Channel 21 (Radio-Canada)
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