Badger, Manitoba is a hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Piney, Manitoba. The community, whose elevation is 377 m (1,236 ft), lies southwest of Whitemouth Lake, and is surrounded by the Sandilands Provincial Forest.[1]
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.[1]
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 2 3 "Badger Manitoba". Rural Municipality of Piney. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2021.
- Geographical Names of Manitoba - Badger (pg. 16) : published by Conservation Manitoba 2008
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