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Snow Lake | |
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Coordinates: 54°52′53.05″N 100°1′21.68″W / 54.8814028°N 100.0226889°W | |
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 | |
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]