Like a tiny island in an infinite sea of farms and fields, the town,
suddenly appearing on the horizon, provides a break in the apparently
uniform rural landscape.
Although each town is unique, linked as it is to its own locality,
the origins of its inhabitants, and its specific history, almost
all the towns emerging in Manitoba share a number of common traits:
a main street running alongside the railway tracks, a train station
with a depot and grain elevator, then the church, the post office,
the hotel, and the general store.
Behind the main street are the homes of the town inhabitants: merchants,
craftsmen, wage earners, worthies, and professionals, and then increasingly
in recent decades, an aging population of retired people, and another
population made up of urban workers for whom the town serves as
a bedroom community.
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