Badger, Manitoba Explained

Badger, Manitoba is a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Piney, Manitoba. The community, whose elevation is 1236abbr=onNaNabbr=on, lies southwest of Whitemouth Lake, and is surrounded by the Sandilands Provincial Forest.[1]

It known for its blueberry crop.

History

Badger began in 1900 as a railway station along the Manitoba and Southern Railway. In its early days, the community had three grocery stores, a post office (opened in 1904; closed in 1961), a dance hall, school house, section and station houses.

The community was known to the Canadian National Railway as Summit for their railway point on section 12-3-11E; the school district, called Evergreen, was located on 6-3-12E.

References

  1. Web site: Badger Manitoba. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20120717095348/http://www.rmofpiney.mb.ca/community/badger.htm. 2012-07-17. 2021-08-07. Rural Municipality of Piney. en-US.

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