Mannville is a village

Village

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 in central Alberta

Central Alberta

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, Canada

Canada

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. It is located at the intersection of the Yellowhead Highway

Yellowhead Highway

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 and Highway 881, approximately 22 kilometres (13.7 mi) west of Vermilion

Vermilion, Alberta

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 and 170 kilometres (105.6 mi) east of Edmonton. Its primary industry is agriculture.

History

The settlement was named for Sir Donald Mann

Donald Mann

Sir Donald Mann was a Canadian railway contractor and entrepreneur.Born at Acton, Ontario, Mann studied as a Methodist minister but worked in lumber camps in Ontario and Michigan before moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba...

, vice-president of the Canadian Northern Railway

Canadian Northern Railway

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.

The Manville Group, an oil and gas bearing stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

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, was named for the village by A.W. Nauss in 1945..

Demographics

The population of the Village of Mannville according to its 2009 municipal census is 761.

In 2006, Mannville had a population of 782 living in 388 dwellings

House

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, a 8.3% increase from 2001. The village has a land area of 2.15 km² (0.83011964097395 sq mi) and a population density

Population density

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 of 363.9 /km2 inhabitants.

Notable people

• Mike Rathje
  Mike Rathje
  Michael Steven Rathje is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the San Jose Sharks and Philadelphia Flyers.-Playing career:...
  
  : NHL defenceman
• Kyle Calder
  Kyle Calder
  Kyle Charles Calder is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for Barys Astana of the Kontinental Hockey League...
  
  : NHL forward
• Miles Zaharko
  Miles Zaharko
  Miles Zaharko is a Canadian professional ice hockey player whose career extended from 1977 to 1984....
  
  : NHL defenceman
• Erving Goffman
  Erving Goffman
  Erving Goffman was a Canadian-born sociologist and writer.The 73rd president of American Sociological Association, Goffman's greatest contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction in the form of dramaturgical perspective that began with his 1959 book The Presentation of Self...
  
  : Sociologist
• Peter Gadsden
  Peter Gadsden
  Sir Peter Drury Haggerston Gadsden, GBE, AC, JP was a Canadian born British chartered engineer and globe-trotting trader. He was the 652nd Lord Mayor of London in 1979 and 1980.-Background:...
  
  : Lord Mayor of London
  Lord Mayor of London
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• Frances Bay
  Frances Bay
  Frances Bay was a U.S.-based Canadian character actress, best known for playing quirky, elderly women on film and television...
  
  : United States-based actress, raised in Dauphin, Manitoba
  Dauphin, Manitoba
  Dauphin is a small city in Manitoba, Canada, with a population of 7,906 as of 2006. The nearby lake was given the name "Dauphin" by the explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye in 1741 in honour of the heir to the French throne...
  
  

External links

• Village of Mannville