Camperville, Manitoba
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Camperville is an unincorporated community in the Canadian province of Manitoba
. Many Métis people live in this community. It is situated on Lake Winnipegosis
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The community was named for the Reverend Jones, a missionary. Local economy includes salt mining, tourism, hunting, fishing and trapping. Provincial Trunk Highway 20 passes through Camperville. The community had a church built 1906-1910, which was subsequently destroyed in 1930 but was rebuilt, the walls of the old church were reusable. However one can easily distinguish between the two because the first church had a two storey steeple while the steeple on the second was only one storey.
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
. Many Métis people live in this community. It is situated on Lake Winnipegosis
Lake Winnipegosis
Lake Winnipegosis is a large lake in central North America, in Manitoba, Canada, some 300 km northwest of Winnipeg. It is Canada's eleventh-largest lake...
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The community was named for the Reverend Jones, a missionary. Local economy includes salt mining, tourism, hunting, fishing and trapping. Provincial Trunk Highway 20 passes through Camperville. The community had a church built 1906-1910, which was subsequently destroyed in 1930 but was rebuilt, the walls of the old church were reusable. However one can easily distinguish between the two because the first church had a two storey steeple while the steeple on the second was only one storey.