Neelin is a small community in the
Canadian province
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of
Manitoba
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. It is located on
Manitoba Provincial Highway 5
Provincial Trunk Highway 5 (PTH 5) is a provincial primary highway located in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
The highway starts at the Hansboro–Cartwright Border Crossing on the Canada–United States border and ends at the Saskatchewan ...
in the
Rural Municipality of Argyle
The Rural Municipality of Argyle is a rural municipality in southwestern Manitoba, Canada. Incorporated on 15 August 1881, it is named after John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll who was the fourth Governor General of Canada.
Baldur is the larg ...
, about 29 km east of
Killarney
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, or about 200 km southwest of
Winnipeg
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.
The Roseberry school district was established in 1885, leading to the construction of a one-room schoolhouse in 1904. The school served as a K–12 school until 1960, when high school students began to bus to either Baldur, Killarney or Cartwright. Roseberry, now known as Neelin school, continued until 1968, when it was closed. The building has since been demolished.
Neelin was also home to a
Manitoba Pool elevator
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. The elevator stood on the CPR railroad tracks until its closure in 1978.
See also
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List of regions of Manitoba
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*
List of rural municipalities in Manitoba
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