Pipestone, Manitoba is a community in southwestern

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, Canada. Located at the corner of highways 2 and 83, Pipestone is approximately 35 km from either Virden or Melita, approximately to the

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border and approximately to the

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border. It is mainly an agricultural area with some oil drilling nearby. Pipestone is part of the

Rural Municipality of Pipestone Pipestone is a rural municipality in the southwestern part of the province of Manitoba in Western Canada The municipality is located in the unceded territory of the Dakota people in Treaty 2. The Dakota have never signed a treaty in Canada. Comm ...

. The office for the municipality is located in Reston, approximately 10 kilometers west on Highway 2. It was the birthplace of

John Hamilton Roberts Major General John Hamilton "Ham" Roberts (December 21, 1891 – December 17, 1962) was a Canadian Army officer who served in both of the world wars. Biography Roberts was born in Pipestone, Manitoba. He studied in Upper Canada College and grad ...

, who commanded the landing forces in the

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in 1942. There is an amateur video of a large destructive tornado that passed through farm fields near Pipestone on June 23, 2007, and another on July 23, 2008. An

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the size of two football fields was discovered near Pipestone in January 2012. More than 100,000 litres of oil seeped into surrounding farmland as a result of a broken pipe.

References

* ''Geographical Names of Manitoba - Pipestone (page 214)'' - the Millennium Bureau of Canada {{MBDivision6 Unincorporated communities in Westman Region

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