Camperville is a community in the
Canadian province of
Manitoba
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Camperville's residents are mainly
Métis. It is situated on the western shore of
Lake Winnipegosis
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Manitoba Highway 20
Provincial Trunk Highway 20 (PTH 20) is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It runs from PTH 5 and PR 582 just south of Ochre River to PTH 10 in the village of Cowan. The highway provides an eastern alternative access o ...
passes through the village.
Local economy includes salt mining, tourism, hunting, fishing and trapping.
History
The community was named for Father C.J. Camper, an early
Roman Catholic
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missionary.
The community had a church built 1906–1910, which was subsequently destroyed in 1930 but was rebuilt, as 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.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada, Camperville had a population of 90 living in 49 of its 51 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 487. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
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Pine Creek First Nation
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Duck Bay, Manitoba
References
External links
Palmer, Gwen. "Camperville and Duck Bay. Part 1 - Camperville" ''Manitoba Pageant'', Autumn 1972, Volume 18, Number 2
Designated places in Manitoba
Northern communities in Manitoba
Unincorporated communities in Parkland Region, Manitoba
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