Leaf Rapids

Leaf Rapids is a town in north west Manitoba, Canada. The town was created as an exploratory model; a model that other northern networks could imitate as they took a stab at present day accommodation and extravagance in a northern domain. The people group is found around 1,000 km north of Winnipeg along the Churchill River. This town is as extensive as a run of the mill Rural Municipality in the more southern parts of Manitoba.

An all-climate street associates the network to Thompson, Lynn Lake, and South Indian Lake. Since the foundation of the network, Leaf Rapids has seen ious huge changes straight forwardly identified with mining activities. Populace decays, benefit arrangement decreases, and a changing business have all happened since the mine's conclusion in 2002. The people group have contributed significant time and exertion inspecting conceivable advances. In 1969, Sherritt Gordon Mines found a tremendous copper and zinc metal body at Ruttan Lake.

Because of this generous revelation, there was a critical interest for a network to offer help administrations for the mine and its specialists. The principal inhabitants of Leaf Rapids landed in 1971 and the network's framework was finished in the fall of 1976. Amid this equivalent year, the network's populace surpassed 2,000 occupants. Leaf Rapids is now and again portrayed as the "moment town" because of the quick development time and the expansive populace that accumulated amid the brief span time frame. The Ruttan Mine was shut down in the late spring of 2002.