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Dauphin () is a city in
Manitoba Manitoba is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population ...
, Canada, with a population of 8,368 as of the 2021 Canadian Census. The community is surrounded by the
Rural Municipality of Dauphin Dauphin is a rural municipality in the Parkland Region of Manitoba, Canada. The municipality surrounds the separately administered city of Dauphin, and lies just north of Riding Mountain National Park, part of which extends into the RM. Co ...
. The city takes its name from Lake Dauphin and
Fort Dauphin Fort Dauphin may refer to: ;Canada * Fort Dauphin (Manitoba), in Manitoba * Fort Dauphin (Nova Scotia), in Nova Scotia ;Haiti * Fort-Liberté Fort-Liberté (; ) is a List of communes of Haiti, commune and administrative capital of the Nord-Est ...
(first built 1741), which were named by explorer
Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye de Boumois (December 1, 1714 – September 13, 1755) was the second son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye. An explorer and fur trader who served many years under the command of his father, he w ...
in honour of the
Dauphin of France Dauphin of France (, also ; ), originally Dauphin of Viennois (''Dauphin de Viennois''), was the title given to the heir apparent to the throne of France from 1350 to 1791, and from 1824 to 1830. The word ''dauphin'' is French for dolphin and ...
, the heir to the French throne. Dauphin is Manitoba's ninth largest community and serves as a hub to the province's
Parkland Region Parkland is an informal geographic region of the Canadian province of Manitoba, located between Lakes Manitoba and Winnipegosis on the east and the Manitoba–Saskatchewan border on the west. The largest population centre is the city of Dauphin, ...
. Dauphin hosts several summer festivals, including Dauphin's Countryfest and Canada's National Ukrainian Festival. Dauphin is served by Provincial Trunk Highways 5, 10 and 20.


Location

Dauphin is in western
Manitoba Manitoba is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada at the Centre of Canada, longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's Population of Canada by province and territory, fifth-most populous province, with a population ...
near Duck Mountain Provincial Park and
Riding Mountain National Park Riding Mountain National Park is a national park in Manitoba, Canada. The park is located within Treaty 2 Territory and sits atop the Manitoba Escarpment. Consisting of a protected area of , the forested parkland stands in sharp contrast to the ...
, just west of
Lake Manitoba Lake Manitoba () is the 14th largest lake in Canada and the 33rd largest lake in the world with a total area of . It is located within the Canadian province of Manitoba about northwest of the province's capital, Winnipeg, at . History The la ...
and
Dauphin Lake Dauphin Lake is located in western Manitoba near the city of Dauphin. The lake covers an area of and has a drainage basin of about . The Mossy River drains the lake into Lake Winnipegosis. The basin is drained by seven major streams and has a ...
and south of
Lake Winnipegosis Lake Winnipegosis is a large (5,370 km2) lake in central North America, in Manitoba, Canada, some 300 km northwest of Winnipeg. It is Canada's eleventh-largest lake. The lake's name derives from that of Lake Winnipeg, with a diminuti ...
.


History

The nearby lake was given the name "Dauphin" by the explorer
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (17 November 1685 â€“ 5 December 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer. In the 1730s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and es ...
in 1741 in honour of the heir to the French throne. Settlers began arriving in the area in 1883 and two early settlements, Gartmore and "Old Dauphin" were established. With the coming of the railway in 1896 – the line ran roughly halfway between the two villages – settlement shifted to the present site. This coincided with the beginning of Ukrainian settlement in the area: previously most arrivals had been of British extraction. Dauphin was granted a village charter on 11 July 1898, with George Barker as first mayor.Dauphin Manitoba Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration – Historical Booklet Published by the Dauphin Chamber of Commerce, 1958 In 1901 Dauphin was incorporated as a town, with George King as mayor. Dauphin became an important centre for the transportation of
grain A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached husk, hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. A grain crop is a grain-producing plant. The two main types of commercial grain crops are cereals and ...
. Farming still plays a central role in the economy of the area, but its role has been greatly reduced. From 1974 to 1979, a federally funded pilot project called
Mincome Mincome, the "Manitoba Basic Annual Income Experiment", was a Basic income in Canada, Canadian guaranteed annual income (GAI) social experiment conducted in Manitoba in the 1970s. The project was funded jointly by the Manitoba provincial government ...
provided a
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to residents of Dauphin. Dauphin was incorporated as a city in 1998.


Healthcare

Dauphin is a regional healthcare hub, part of the Prairie Mountain Health authority. The Dauphin General Hospital (now the Dauphin Regional Health Centre) was established in 1901. The Dauphin Medical Clinic provides access to family physicians and specialists, while providing a walk-in clinic and acute care.


Economy

As the largest city within the Parkland, Dauphin has a trading area of over 50,000 people. A large part of Dauphin's economy is based on agriculture, with farms in this area of the province producing grains, oilseeds, honey and livestock. Dauphin is the home to various industries including manufacturing, health care, education, recreation/tourism and retail. The Canadian distribution centre for Norwex is also located in the city.


Education

The first school building was erected in Dauphin in 1903, a frame building on the present Mackenzie School site. The original Whitmore School was built on Fifth Ave. SW in 1907, followed by the Smith-Jackson School on Main Street South in 1922. Today, the
Mountain View School Division Mountain View School Division is in the Parkland Region of Manitoba, bordering the shores of Lake Winnipegosis to the North, stretching from Lake Dauphin in the east to the Saskatchewan border in the west and bordering the Riding Mountains to the ...
oversees K-12 education in Dauphin. The City of Dauphin has 7 schools including the Dauphin Regional Comprehensive Secondary School, Mackenzie Middle School, Henderson Elementary School, Lt. Colonel Barker VC School, École Macneill (French Immersion), Whitmore School and Smith-Jackson Ukrainian Bilingual School. The
Assiniboine Community College Assiniboine College is a Canadian college in the province of Manitoba. It is accredited by the Manitoba Council on Post-Secondary Education, which was created by the government of Manitoba. The Victoria Avenue East and the North Hill campuses ar ...
Parkland Campus, located in Dauphin, provides post-secondary programming in the Parkland. Programs include business, agriculture, applied counseling, nursing and a range of apprenticeship courses.


Transportation


Ground

The city is served by Manitoba Provincial Trunk Highways: * PTH 5 * PTH 10 * PTH 20 * PTH 5A * PTH 10A * PTH 20A


Air

Lt. Col W.G. (Billy) Barker VC Airport serves the area, however no scheduled flights are operated from the airport.


Rail

Dauphin railway station The Dauphin railway station is located in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. The station is served by Via Rail's Winnipeg – Churchill train. The station was built in 1912 by the Canadian Northern Railway to a design by architect John Schofield. The st ...
is served by
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's
Winnipeg–Churchill train The Winnipeg–Churchill train (formerly known as the ''Hudson Bay'' and, before that, ''Northern Spirits'') is a twice weekly passenger train operated by Via Rail between Union Station (Winnipeg), Winnipeg and Churchill, Manitoba. It is the on ...
. The rail line is owned by
Canadian National The Canadian National Railway Company () is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN is Canada's largest railway, in terms of both revenue an ...
(CN) which also operates freight trains through the town.


Sports

Dauphin is a hockey community. The
Credit Union Place The Credit Union Place is a 1,763-seat multipurpose arena located in Dauphin, Manitoba. The arena is part of the Parkland Recreation Complex, which also includes a curling rink and an aquatic centre. The arena opened in April 2006, at a cost of ...
recreation complex was built in 2006. It is the home of the
Dauphin Kings The Dauphin Kings are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada. They are members of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League (MJHL), a part of the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL) and Hockey Canada. The Kings were established i ...
, an
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Junior A hockey team, Turnbull Memorial Trophy winners in 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1983, 1993, and 2010 and Anavet Cup winners of 2010. Formerly, the team played in the Dauphin Memorial Community Centre (D.M.C.C.) arena that was built after the Second World War. Dauphin and the Kings hosted the
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in 2010, the Canadian National Championship for Junior A Hockey. The 1953–54 Dauphin Kings were inducted into the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame for winning the team's second Western Canadian Intermediate Championship in a decade and capturing the Edmonton Journal trophy. Dauphin has a history of title-winning baseball teams. Both the Dauphin Redbirds and later the Dauphin Brewers have claimed numerous provincial titles. Dauphin high schoolers play a big part of the athletics of Dauphin. They have won many awards and medals in volleyball, track and field, basketball, broomball, curling, football, and hockey. A Dauphin rink composed of curlers Ab Gowanlock, Jim Williams, Art Pollon and Russ Jackman won the Brier, the Canadian men's curling championship, in 1953. Dauphin has been called the "horseshoe capital of Canada," in large part due to the efforts of Bert Snart (1912–1988), president of the Dauphin Horseshoe Club for 32 years. In 1976 he was inducted into the Horseshoe Hall of Fame in Levittown, Pennsylvania.


Demographics

In the
2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
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, Dauphin had a population of 8,368 living in 3,779 of its 4,048 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 8,369. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. The median household income in 2005 was $35,527, below the Manitoba provincial average of $47,875.


Ethnicity

According to the 2021 Canadian census,
Ukrainians Ukrainians (, ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. Their native tongue is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, and the majority adhere to Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, forming the List of contemporary eth ...
constitute the largest ethnic group in the City of Dauphin, with 29.99% of the population. 5.7% of the population can speak Ukrainian. 18.8% of the residents have English ancestry, 15.3% Scottish ancestry, and 14.07% Irish ancestry, and 27.54% are of Aboriginal origin.


Climate

Dauphin has a
humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold ...
(
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''Dfb'') with cold winters and warm summers. The highest temperature ever recorded in Dauphin was on 25 June 1919. The coldest temperature ever recorded was on 25 February 1890 and 18 February 1966.


Local media

Newspapers * '' Dauphin Herald'' Radio *
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730 AM,
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and
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*
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105.3,
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(repeats CBW Winnipeg) * (Future Station) 106.1,
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Television Dauphin was formerly served by a local newscast, which aired on the city's now-defunct retransmitter of
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Winnipeg but was produced by
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instead of by
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.


Notable people

* Aimé Adam, politician * George Balcan, radio broadcaster * James Ball competed for Canada in the
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held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 400 metres, where he won the silver medal * Lt.-Col. William George Barker, VC, Canada's most decorated serviceman; born in Dauphin in 1894; namesake of the Dauphin airport and a school *
Frances Bay Frances Evelyn Bay (née Goffman; January 1, 1919 – September 15, 2011) was a Canadian and American character actress and comedian. In a career that spanned 35 years, she acted in a variety of roles both in film and television. Bay was inducted ...
(1919–2011), attended school in Dauphin; actress in TV and films; ''Blue Velvet'', ''Happy Gilmore'' *
James Whitney Bettes James Whitney Bettes (October 17, 1848 – November 29, 1925) was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Muskoka (provincial electoral district), Muskoka and Parry Sound in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal P ...
, politician *
Angus Bonnycastle Angus Lorne Bonnycastle (November 3, 1873 – September 9, 1941) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1907 to 1911, as a member of the Conservative Party. A member of the Bonnycastle fami ...
, politician * John C. Bowen, politician * James Langstaff Bowman (1879–1951), a Dauphin lawyer; first Manitoban to be Speaker of the House of Commons * Donald Bryk, judge *
Theodore Arthur Burrows Theodore Arthur Burrows (August 15, 1857 – January 18, 1929) was a politician and office-holder in Manitoba, Canada. He served as the tenth Lieutenant Governor of the province from October 6, 1926 until his death. Burrows was born in Ot ...
(1857–1929), sometime MLA and MP for Dauphin, lieutenant-governor of Manitoba from 1926 until his death * Don Caley (1945-2016), hockey goaltender who played one game in the
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for the
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* Jim Cardiff, hockey player * Robert Cruise, politician * Connor Dewar, hockey player *
Will Ferguson William Stener Ferguson (born October 12, 1964) is a Canadian travel writer and novelist who won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel '' 419'' (2012). Biography Ferguson was born fourth of six children in the former fur trading post of ...
, writer * James Galbraith, politician *
Tammy Gillis Tammy Gillis (born October 25, 1978) is a Canadian actress who works on television and film projects across the country. Early life and education Gillis was born in Dauphin, Manitoba.Erving Goffman Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 â€“ 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century". In 2007, '' The Time ...
(1922–1982), acclaimed sociologist and author of ''The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life''; grew up in Dauphin * John Gunne, politician * Robin Hahn, equestrian * Christine Harapiak, judge * Robert Hawkins, Speaker of the Manitoba Legislature 1937–1949 * Ernest Charles Hoy, born in Dauphin in 1895; World War I flying ace who scored 13 victories in just a month and a half in 1918; on 7 August 1919, flew the first airmail flight over the Canadian Rockies * Russ Jackman, curler * Robert Kabel, hockey player *
Mike Korney Michael Wayne Korney (born September 15, 1953) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey player. He played in 77 games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers between 1973 and 1978. Mike played 2 years fo ...
, hockey player * Les Kozak, hockey player *
Brigette Lacquette Brigette Lacquette (born November 10, 1992) is a Canadian ice hockey player, currently playing defence for the Calgary section of the PWHPA and the Canadian national team. She participated at the 2015 IIHF Women's World Championship. In the aut ...
, hockey player *
Laverne Lewycky Laverne Mitchell Lewycky (12 February 1946 – 3 August 2020) was a Canadian politician and New Democratic Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a professor of sociology and communication studies, who also served as an executi ...
, politician *
Inky Mark Inky Mark (; born November 17, 1947) is a Canadians, Canadian politician was Mayor of Dauphin and a former member of the House of Commons of Canada, representing the Manitoba riding of Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette. Mark was a member of the ...
, former mayor of Dauphin, and former member of parliament for the riding of
Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette (formerly known as Dauphin and Dauphin—Swan River) was a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 2015. I ...
*
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, musical group * Ernest McGirr, politician *
Ben Meisner Ben Meisner (June 3, 1938 April 2, 2015) was a Canadian radio broadcaster. Meisner was born in Maryfield, Saskatchewan in 1938, the youngest of the four children of William Meisner and Anna Wolowska. In the early 1950s he moved to Winnipeg, where ...
, radio broadcaster *
Barry Merrell Barry Lee Merrell (born May 16, 1945) is a former professional ice hockey right winger. He played ten games in the World Hockey Association with the Edmonton Oilers The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. T ...
, hockey player *
Bif Naked Beth Nicole Torbert (born June 15, 1971) is a Canadian singer best known by her stage name Bif Naked. Between 1996 and 2016, she was among the top 150 selling Canadian artists in Canada. She charted #1 on Billboard Canada for the single Spacema ...
(born Beth Torbert on 15 June 1971),
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-winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, poet,
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, and actress; attended Dauphin Regional Comprehensive Secondary School in the 1980s * Joan O'Malley, seamstress of first Canadian flag *
John Plohman John Stuart Hans Plohman (born May 11, 1948) is a former politician from Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1981 to 1995, and a cabinet minister in the NDP government of Premier Howard Pawley from 198 ...
, politician * Art Pollon, curler * Ryan Pulock,
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defenceman currently with the New York Islanders. *
Gordon Ritchie William Gordon Ritchie (27 September 1918 – 20 November 1998) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He studied MB ChB medicine at the University of St Andrews School of Medicine. He was a surgeon and ...
, politician * Colby Robak, former
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player, currently playing with
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in
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*
Fred Sandhu Fred Harinder Singh Sandhu was appointed to the Provincial Court of Manitoba on May 1, 2003. Judge Sandhu graduated from the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Law in 1979. After his call to the bar, he worked with Legal Aid Manitoba, focusing ...
, judge * Michael Sawchuk, politician * W. B. Scarth, politician *
Ted Schellenberg Ted William Schellenberg (born 11 August 1952) is a Canadian broadcaster and former politician. Schellenberg served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Dauphin, Manitoba, Schellenberg was elect ...
, politician * Jim Schraefel, hockey player * Panteleymon Shpylka, priest * John Solomon, politician *
Barry Trotz Barry Trotz (born July 15, 1962) is a Canadian ice hockey executive, former player and coach. He is the general manager for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Prior to that, he served as an advisor to General Manager Da ...
, former head coach of the National Hockey League's
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and 2018 Stanley cup winner; born and raised in Dauphin *
William John Ward William John Ward (October 25, 1880 – August 18, 1971) was a Canadian politician, farmer, insurance agent, and real estate agent from Dauphin, Manitoba. A member of the Ginger Group, he joined the Progressives in 1921, was a Liberal Progr ...
, politician *
Troy Westwood Troy Westwood (born March 21, 1967) is a former professional Canadian football place kicker and punter who played 18 years for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted 48th overall in the 6th round of the ...
, longtime CFLer for the
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* Thomas Wilkinson, bishop * Jim Williams, curler * Fred Zaplitny, politician


See also

*
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References


External links

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