Kemnay is a small community in

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Rural Municipality of Whitehead Whitehead is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It is west of Brandon, Manitoba and the principle communities within its boundaries Kemnay and Alexander. It became a municipality on 22 December 1883 and was name ...

about 10 kilometres west of Brandon on PTH 1A. Kemnay has the same name as Kemnay, a village in Scotland. In October 2001, most of the community was evacuated when a train carrying

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derailed near Kemnay.

External links

Transportation Safety Board of Canada: Railway Investigation Report

References

Unincorporated communities in Westman Region {{Manitoba-geo-stub