Dominion City
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Dominion City is served by Roseau Valley School. The community also has a pool, a museum, a bank, a credit union, a general store, a hockey rink, a curling club, and a nine-hole golf course. Historic buildings in Dominion City include All Saints Anglican Church, which is now used as the Franklin Museum.
The original name of the community was Roseau, later Roseau Crossing. It changed to the current name in 1878 to avoid confusion with similarly-named communities, such as Roseau, Minnesota. The "City" was added in keeping with Crystal City and Rapid City.Template:Explain[1] The post office was called Roseau Crossing upon establishment in 1876 and renamed Dominion City in 1880.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Dominion City had a population of 319 living in 148 of its 187 total private dwellings, a change of Script error: No such module "Percentage". from its 2016 population of 353. With a land area of Template:Cvt, it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021.[2]
Notable people
- Jacob Anderson, priest
- Buddy Knox, 1950s rock and roll star[3]
- Julie Masi, musician, member of The Parachute Club[4]
- Denton Mateychuk, NHL player for the Columbus Blue Jackets
References
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- ↑ John Einarson, Soaring with Parachute Club: Singer pulled rip cord on music career after success in the '80s. Winnipeg Free Press, October 19, 2014. Retrieved 2016-12-10.
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- Geographic Names of Manitoba (pg. 65) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada