| Neepawa,
the world Lily Capital and home to Canada’s
National Lily Festival welcomes you with
open arms. Each year a dedicated team of
volunteers celebrates these designations
by hosting the Neepawa
& Area Lily Festival the
third full week in July.
Known to its aboriginal dwellers as a good
hunting and gathering area, Neepawa in fact
means Land of Plenty in the Cree language.
Early fur traders and settlers knew Neepawa
as an area of stable climate, good soils
and abundant harvests. The area became known
as “The Beautiful Plains” as
the settlers, upon gaining the heights of
the escarpment to the east, viewed the open
land and they remarked “What beautiful
plains!” Located on the Trans Canada
Yellowhead Highway and the Parks Route,
Neepawa offers easy access to Edmonton in
the west, Winnipeg in the east, northern
Manitoba and the U.S. border.
Neepawa continues to develop as an agricultural
region, as a health care and education center,
as a service center and as a tourism area.
Neepawa sits at the meeting place of four
geophysical areas and it is said that there
are more species of birds in this area than
in any area of North America because of
the convergence of flyways and nesting habitats.
The summer season ranges from May to September
with the months of November through February
having considerable amounts of snow. The
area enjoys over 2,000 hours of sunshine
per year.
Come and immerse yourself in the things
Neepawa has to offer from Spring through
Winter.
A Bit of
History
Neepawa was settled in the late 1870’s.
The Graham family of Listowel, Ontario came
to this area in 1877 and took up homesteads
around what is now the Town Of Neepawa.
In fact, one of the Graham homesteads contains
the Graham family burial plot and is now
Neepawa’s Riverside cemetery.
Like Most prairie towns, Neepawa grew up
around the railways. Its two main downtown
thoroughfares, Mountain Avenue and Hamilton
Street, actually developed along the routes
between the two railway stations. Those
two streets still form the core of the town,
but business development has spread out
along the two highways to meet the needs
of the traveling public.
Neepawa grew up because of its location.
Its location today is still its strength.
Farming, tourism, education and health care
are all essential ingredients in the mix
that makes Neepawa successful. Above all,
it’s the people who came to Neepawa
long ago and the ones who continue to come
today that keep Neepawa both beautiful and
growing.
Location
Neepawa is located at the junction of PTH
1 (the Trans-Canada Yellowhead Route) and
PTH 5 (the Parks Route). It is also located
on a main line CPR railway and has an airport
with the size of runway that can accommodate
small jets and Hercules Transport aircraft.
Neepawa is at the headwaters of the Whitemud
River, which starts within the Town of Neepawa
boundaries with the convergence of the Stoney
and Boggy Creeks.
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