Lauder, Manitoba

Lauder is a small community in the Rural Municipality of Cameron in Manitoba, Canada. The community is located at the junction of Highway 254 and Highway 345, approximately 100 km south-west of Brandon, Manitoba only 22 km south-west of the Town of Hartney. Lauder is about 3 miles south of the Souris River and the Lauder Sand Hills. Lauder was established in 1891 by the Canadian Pacific Railway and named after Archdeacon John Strutt Lauder, rector of Christ Church in Ottawa. The first survey laid out blocks 1-3 then in 1903, the CPR surveyors laid out blocks 4-7. About the only type of business the town didn't have in its long history was a fire department. The first of several devastating fires was "the great fire of 1894". 125 years after its establishment, there is only one business left in town and most of the buildings are gone but the community spirit is strong. A vast amount of information about Lauder is available in "The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Town" See below.

Lauder

Coordinates: 55°43′10″N 2°44′55″W / 55.71936°N 2.74855°W / 55.71936; -2.74855

The Royal Burgh of Lauder (Scottish Gaelic: Labhdar) is a town in the Scottish Borders in the historic county of Berwickshire. On the Southern Upland Way, the burgh lies 27 miles south east of Edinburgh, on the western edge of the Lammermuir Hills.

Medieval history

Although Lauder sits in the valley of Leader Water, Watson notes that the names Lauder and Leader appear to be unconnected. In the earliest sources Lauder appears as Lauuedder and Louueder.

Below Lauder are the lands of Kedslie which were bounded on the west by a road called "Malcolm's rode," and it is thought this formed part of the Roman road known as Dere Street, which passed through Lauder. Hardie suggests that it had been reconditioned by Malcolm III for use in his almost constant warfare against England. It is the only old road in Scotland that is associated with the name of an individual person.

The ancient settlement was further up the hills on the edge of the Moor. Its name is unknown, but it was tiny. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (vol.II) says that the present town of Lauder existed as a kirk-town in the time of David I (1124–53), and Sir J.D.Marwick says, in his preface to the Records of Convention, that the present town of Lauder existed in the latter half of the twelfth century. The town was once surrounded by walls with gates commonly referred to as 'ports'. Two major mills, which dated from the 12th century, also served the town.

Lauder (disambiguation)

Lauder is a town in the Scottish Borders 27 miles south east of Edinburgh.

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Lauder (surname)

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Manitoba

Manitoba (ⁱ/ˌmænᵻˈtoʊbə/) is a province located at the longitudinal centre of Canada. It is one of the three prairie provinces and is the fifth-most populous province in Canada, with a population of 1,208,268 as of 2011. Manitoba covers an area of 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi) with a widely varied landscape; the southern and western regions are predominantly prairie grassland, the eastern and northern regions are dominated by the Canadian Shield, and the far northern regions along the Hudson Bay coast are arctic tundra. Manitoba is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territory of Nunavut to the north, and the US states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south.

More than 90% of Manitoba's population lives within the far southern regions of the province, where its arable land and largest cities are located. The northern region of Manitoba, which encompasses nearly 70% the province's total area, is mostly undeveloped consisting primarily of remote and isolated communities amongst vast wilderness.Winnipeg is the capital and most populous city in Manitoba by a significant margin, with 730,018 people residing in the Winnipeg Capital Region. Other cities in the province are Brandon, Portage la Prairie, Steinbach, Thompson, Winkler, Selkirk, Dauphin, Morden, and Flin Flon.

Manitoba (disambiguation)

Manitoba is a province of Canada.

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Manitoba (computer chip)

Manitoba was a system-on-a-chip (SoC) introduced by Intel Corporation in 2003. It was a mostly unsuccessful attempt by Intel to break into the smart phones market. The chip integrated flash memory, a digital signal processor and an XScale processor core. After the chip's failure in the marketplace, the business was sold to Marvell in 2006 for $600 million.

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