Pipestone is a community in southwestern
Manitoba
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, Canada. Located at the corner of
Highways 2 and
83, Pipestone is approximately from either
Virden or
Melita, approximately to the
United States
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border and approximately to the
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...
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 (RM) in the southwestern part of the province of Manitoba in Western Canada
Communities
* Butler
* Cromer
* Ebor
* Ewart
* Linklater
* Pipestone
* Reston
* Scarth
* Sinclair
* Woodnorth
Demographi ...
.
History
More than of oil seeped into farmland near Pipestone as a result of a broken pipe in January 2012.
2007 tornado
A very large, violent, multi-vortex tornado touched down in Pipestone on June 23, 2007.
This tornado was officially rated F3, and was a part of the same outbreak as the
2007 Elie tornado
The 2007 Elie tornado was a small but extremely powerful and erratic tornado that occurred in Canada, during the evening hours of Friday, June 22, 2007. The powerful Fujita scale, F5 tornado that struck the town of Elie, Manitoba, Elie, in the Ca ...
. This tornado did not hit anything of note and was not able to have any fatalities, but has been thought to have been a potentially F5 tornado.
Notable people
Pipestone 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 gr ...
, who commanded the landing forces in the
Dieppe Raid
Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was a disastrous Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France, during the Second World War. Over 6,050 infantry, predominantly Canadian, supported by a ...
in 1942.
See also
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List of communities in Manitoba
Communities in the province of Manitoba, Canada include incorporated municipalities, unincorporated communities and First Nations communities.
Types of incorporated municipalities include urban municipalities, rural municipalities and local ...
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Pipestone Creek (Saskatchewan)
Pipestone Creek is a river in the Souris River watershed. Its flow begins in southeastern Saskatchewan, just south of the town of Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Grenfell and travels in a southeasterly direction into Manitoba in the Westman Region whe ...
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Elie, Manitoba
Elie is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district in the Rural Municipality of Cartier in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
Geography
The community is located approximately west of Winnipeg along the Trans-Canada Hig ...
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Scarth, Manitoba
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Alonsa, Manitoba (rural municipality)
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2007 Elie tornado
The 2007 Elie tornado was a small but extremely powerful and erratic tornado that occurred in Canada, during the evening hours of Friday, June 22, 2007. The powerful Fujita scale, F5 tornado that struck the town of Elie, Manitoba, Elie, in the Ca ...
References
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Unincorporated communities in Westman Region