Dominion City
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Use Canadian English Template:More citations needed Template:Infobox settlement Dominion City is an unincorporated community in the Municipality of Emerson – Franklin, Manitoba Canada. It is located in southeastern part of the province, approximately Template:Convert north of the Canada–United States border.
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<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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 Template: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.<ref name=2021census>Template:Cite web</ref>
Notable people
- Jacob Anderson, priest
- Buddy Knox, 1950s rock and roll star<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Julie Masi, musician, member of The Parachute Club<ref>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.</ref>
- Denton Mateychuk, NHL player for the Columbus Blue Jackets
References
- Geographic Names of Manitoba (pg. 65) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada