Snow Lake, Manitoba

Snow Lake
Snow Lake is located in Manitoba
Snow Lake
Snow Lake
Coordinates: 54°52′53.05″N 100°1′21.68″W / 54.8814028°N 100.0226889°W / 54.8814028; -100.0226889
CountryCanada
ProvinceManitoba
RegionNorthern
Founded1947
Incorporated1976
Government
 • MayorRon Scott
 • MLATom Lindsey
Elevation
271 m (890 ft)
Population
 (2021)
 • Total1,088
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (Central (CDT))
Postal code
Area code204
WebsiteTown 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]

  1. ^ Hamilton, William (1978). The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names. Toronto: Macmillan. p. 64. ISBN 0-7715-9754-1.