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Manir

Category : Station
 

This was an Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway station named after Mme Manir (Boulanger) Polet, a Belgian painter of note, who was for 15 years a resident of Alberta. Manir Boulanger came to Canada in 1906 with her mother and her sister to join her brother Pierre who was farming close to Villeneuve near St. Albert. There she met and married Eugène Polet. Mme Polet's brother-in-law, Maurice Polet, was a civil engineer for the railway. It was he who suggested the name for the station. Manir and Eugène Polet farmed for a number of years, but returned to Belgium around 1921.

Approximately 20 km south south east of Spirit River.

Location Name : Woking
National Topographic System (NTS) : 83 M/10
 
Sub Section | Section | Township | Range | Meridian
4-78-4-W6
 
Latitude (N) | Longitude (W)
55° 44' N 118° 33' W
 
The content above is directly derived from :
Place Names of Alberta - Volume IV
Northern Alberta

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