6-699: Oakbank may refer to: Places [ edit ] Oakbank, Manitoba , Canada Oakbank, Mull , a place on the Isle of Mull , Argyll and Bute, Scotland Oakbank, Perth , Perth and Kinross, Scotland Oakbank, West Lothian , a location in Scotland Oakbank, South Australia , Australia Other uses [ edit ] Oakbank Easter Racing Carnival , held in Oakbank, South Australia See also [ edit ] Oakbank School (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
12-538: A Presbyterian church was moved to the community and a Baptist church built in 1908. In 1906, the Canadian Pacific Railway built a track that passed through the village; by 1927 the line was double-tracked. A train station existed until 1968. Electricity was supplied by the Winnipeg Electric Company starting in 1930. Rural electrification did not reach the surrounding area until 1949. In 1887,
18-496: A small, largely rural community , Oakbank is now a dormitory town , or bedroom community, for Winnipeg, as a majority of the residents work in that city. Its rapid population growth is representative of small towns in the Winnipeg Capital Region , with two new housing developments being expanded in the town. In 1899, a post office was established in the present location of Oakbank and the village grew around it. In 1901,
24-433: A telephone was installed in the home of the municipal secretary treasurer. Various private telephone companies, often with only a dozen subscribers, operated until they were all absorbed by Manitoba Telephone System in 1950. In 1964, local school divisions were consolidated and Oakbank became the local center for elementary, junior high and high school students, against many people's wishes. A local manual telephone exchange
30-548: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Oakbank, Manitoba Oakbank is an unincorporated community in Manitoba , Canada located about 15 km east of the provincial capital Winnipeg , in the Rural Municipality of Springfield . It has a population of about 5,000, making it the largest unincorporated community in the province of Manitoba . Starting off as
36-450: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Oakbank . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oakbank&oldid=1042215376 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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