Prawda, Manitoba

Prawda is a community situated a few miles east of Hadashville on the Trans Canada Highway in eastern Manitoba. It lies within the boundaries of the Rural Municipality of Reynolds. The population of this community is 200. Here in Prawda, you will find two service stations/convenience store & restaurants (Birchwood Esso and Prawda Shell), and a campground (Pinetree),

The area was settled by Ukrainian, Polish and Russian settlers starting about 1907. By 1932 there was a post office opened which operated until 1969. The postmistress, Evangeline Andrusko, named the post office after an old country town. It comes from the Polish word, prawda, which means truth.

A school district was part of the community with the school located on NE 31-2-6E. The present day school is Reynolds Elementary School and serves K to 6 after which the students are bussed to Whitemouth, Manitoba. The area is agricultural and has ties to the forestry industry.As well, Prawda is also home to a livestock feed store (Trails End Livestock), satellite services (Bert's Satellite), plumber (Kuharski Bros.) Nurseries (Bilan Tree Nursery, NJ Enterprises, Pips River Nursery), a community club (Reynolds Community Club). Farming activities also take place in Prawda. Residents travel to Whitemouth, Ste. Anne, Steinbach, or Winnipeg for medical needs. Reynolds Fire Department, built in 2005, is located at Prawda.The telephone area code for Prawda: (204)

References

Geographic Names of Manitoba - Prawda pg. 219 : published by the Millennium Bureau of Canada
the Rural Municipality of Reynolds - Prawda

Division 1, Manitoba (Eastern Manitoba)

Towns	Lac du Bonnet Powerview–Pine Falls

Local government districts	Pinawa

Rural municipalities	Alexander Lac du Bonnet Piney Reynolds Stuartburn Victoria Beach Whitemouth

First Nations	Animakee Wa Zhing 37 Buffalo Point Iskatewizaagegan 39 Shoal Lake 40

Indian reserves	Buffalo Point 36 Shoal Lake 37A (part) Shoal Lake 39 (part) Shoal Lake 39A (part) Shoal Lake 40 (part)

Unorganized areas	Unorganized Division 1

Unincorporated communities	Arbakka Badger Caliento Elma Gardenton Hadashville Hillside Beach Piney Prawda River Hills Ste. Rita St. Georges Seven Sisters Falls South Junction Sprague Stuartburn Sundown Vassar Vita Whitemouth Zhoda (part)

See also: Municipalities in Manitoba Census divisions of Manitoba 2015 municipal amalgamations

Coordinates: 49°39′03″N 95°47′37″W / 49.65083°N 95.79361°W / 49.65083; -95.79361

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