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Clearwater
Clearwater is a farming community about 200 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg along Highway 3, known for the Harvest Moon Festival (Sept. 16-18), a music and organic farming event that attracts 1,200 to 1,500 fans annually.
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History
Palliser and the Boundary Commission referred to the stream, which we today know as Cypress Creek by the name of Long River. In 1856 Palliser camped here and in 1873 the Boundary Commission established their LONG RIVER DEPOT here 90 miles west of Fort Dufferin. With the arrival of the first settlers, the district became known as CYPRESS CROSSING, its later name Clearwater being a translation of an earlier Indian one. After first visiting the district in January 1880, Rev. L. O. Armstrong purchased land here where Mr. Alexander McLaren had taken up his homestead in 1878. Here he laid out the town of Clearwater in March 1880.
Businesses soon began to arrive and by March 1882 a local resident reported to a Winnipeg paper, "We entertain the proud ambition of outrivalling even the ambitious Brandon." Why? Because they were "expecting the facilities of two competing railroads." Today the distance between Clearwater and Crystal City is four miles distant but prior to the arrival of the railroad, the survey of each had been so enlarged that their suburbs were just a mile apart. Today Clearwater is the only town along the Trail remaining on its original location.
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