St. Leon, Manitoba
Encyclopedia
Saint-Leon is a community in Manitoba
, Canada
. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Lorne
, to the southwest of Winnipeg
, near the United States
border.
The community is best known as the site of a major wind farm
project.http://www.airsourcepower.com/
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...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Lorne
Lorne, Manitoba
Lorne is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. The separately administered village of Somerset is enclaved within the municipality, while the village of Notre Dame de Lourdes lies between it and the Rural Municipality of South Norfolk.-External links:*...
, to the southwest of Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
, near the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
border.
The community is best known as the site of a major wind farm
Wind farm
A wind farm is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electric power. A large wind farm may consist of several hundred individual wind turbines, and cover an extended area of hundreds of square miles, but the land between the turbines may be used for agricultural or other...
project.http://www.airsourcepower.com/