Snow Lake, Manitoba

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Snow Lake
Town
Snow Lake
Coordinates: 54°52′53.05″N 100°1′21.68″W / 54.8814028°N 100.0226889°W / 54.8814028; -100.0226889
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba
Region	Northern
Founded	1947
Incorporated	1976
Government
• Mayor	Ron Scott
• MLA	Tom Lindsey
Elevation	271 m (890 ft)
Population  (2021)
• Total	1,088
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central (CDT))
Postal code	R0B 1M0
Area code	204
Website	Town of Snow Lake

Snow Lake is a town in Manitoba, Canada, located 685 km (426 mi) north of Winnipeg at the end of Provincial Road 392. The main industry is, and always has been, mining; currently with one mine producing Zinc, and another lithium. The official Town of Snow Lake is a very large, overwhelmingly rural area that is centered about the urban community of Snow Lake, which lies very near its geographical center. The Town is as large in area as a typical rural municipality in the more southern parts of Manitoba.

Possibly named for a local family (Rudnyckyj) or because early settlers "found the water in the lake as soft as the melted snow" (Files, Manitoba Department of Natural Resources).^[1]