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Snow Lake, Manitoba

Field	Value
name	Snow Lake
settlement_type	Town
pushpin_map	Canada Manitoba
pushpin_label	Snow Lake
pushpin_label_position
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Manitoba
subdivision_type2	Region
subdivision_name2	Northern
leader_title1	Mayor
leader_name1	Ron Scott
leader_title2	MLA
leader_name2	Tom Lindsey
established_title	Founded
established_date	1947
established_title2	Incorporated
established_date2	1976
population_as_of	2021
population_total	1,088
timezone	Central (CST)
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	Central (CDT)
utc_offset_DST	-5
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	R0B 1M0
coordinates
elevation_m	271
elevation_ft	890
website	[Town of Snow Lake](http://www.snowlake.com)
area_code	204

Snow Lake is a town in Manitoba, Canada, located 685 km 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).

Mining

Mining has been Snow Lake's major industry since incorporation. Two separate mining ventures have operated in the community over the past 40 years. TVX/Kinross/High River operated the New Britannia Mine, which closed in January 2005, and HudBay Minerals, which operated 12 area mines. They were/are Lalor Mine, Chisel Lake, Stall Lake, Osborne Lake, Dickstone, Anderson Lake, Ghost Lake, Lost Lake, Spruce Point, Rod Mine, Photo Lake, and Chisel North.

Following a rise in demand, lithium has begun to attract mining companies to the area. Nasdaq listed Snow Lake Lithium ($LITM) are currently (at Jan 2022) preparing to start commercial lithium mining.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Snow Lake had a population of 1,088 living in 473 of its 604 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 899. With a land area of 1166.64 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Education

Joseph H. Kerr School, the lone educational facility in Snow Lake, is a Kindergarten to Senior Four facility with an enrollment of 145 students for the 2008–2009 school year. It is now part of the Frontier School Division. Prior to a Provincial amalgamation (2003) of school districts, it operated under its own district, the School District of Snow Lake # 2309. The building, under one form or another, has been open for close to fifty years. In 2001, Joseph H. Kerr was named one of the thirty most innovative schools by Canada's Schoolnet.

Local media and services

Radio

NCI - 96.3
CBC - 95.5

Television

CBWKT connected to the province-wide microwave system on March 1, 1969.

Shaw Cable Television;
CBWKT channel 8 (CBC);
CKYS-TV channel 11 (CTV).

References

Hamilton, William. (1978). "The Macmillan Book of Canadian Place Names". Macmillan.
(February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Manitoba". [[Statistics Canada]].
(April 29, 1969). "Microwave Hook-Up Gives North Live TV". Winnipeg Free Press.

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