Dominion City, Manitoba

Dominion City, 2006

Dominion City is a community in the Rural Municipality of Franklin in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is located in south central Manitoba about 20 kilometres from the Canada-U.S. border.

Dominion City is served by Roseau Valley School. It has a pool, a museum, a bank, a credit union, a store, a hockey rink, and a curling club. Historic buildings in Dominion City include All Saints Anglican Church, which is now the Franklin Museum.

There was a Post Office called Roseau Crossing established in 1876. The name was changed to Dominion City in 1880.

References

Geographic Names of Manitoba (pg. 65) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada

Subdivisions of Manitoba

Subdivisions	Regions Census divisions Municipalities Communities Indian reserves Population centres Designated places

Cities	Brandon Dauphin Flin Flon Morden Portage la Prairie Selkirk Steinbach Thompson Winkler Winnipeg

Towns	Altona Arborg Beausejour Carberry Carman Churchill Gillam Grand Rapids Lac du Bonnet Leaf Rapids Lynn Lake Melita Minnedosa Morris Neepawa Niverville The Pas Powerview-Pine Falls Snow Lake Ste. Anne Swan River Teulon Virden Winnipeg Beach Former towns: Birtle Boissevain Deloraine Emerson Erickson Gilbert Plains Gladstone Grandview Gretna Hamiota Hartney MacGregor Manitou Minitonas Oak Lake Pilot Mound Plum Coulee Rapid City Rivers Roblin Rossburn Russell Souris Sainte Rose du Lac Treherne

Villages	Dunnottar St-Pierre-Jolys Former villages: Benito Binscarth Bowsman Cartwright Crystal City Elkhorn Ethelbert Glenboro McCreary Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Riverton Somerset St. Claude St. Lazare Waskada Wawanesa Winnipegosis

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Coordinates: 49°08′31″N 97°09′20″W / 49.14194°N 97.15556°W / 49.14194; -97.15556

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