St. Adolphe, Manitoba
Saint Adolphe, or St. Adolphe, is a community in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot, Manitoba, Canada. It is located along the east bank of the Red River, approximately 7 kilometers south of Winnipeg.
The area was first settled by the Métis in the 1850s and later by farmers who relocated from Quebec and Eastern Canada in the latter half of the 19th century. In 1906, a group of French nuns from the Filles de la Croix order opened a Roman Catholic convent and school at St. Adolphe. The convent was the site of a reported miracle in 1922, when one of the Sisters, stricken with tuberculosis and near death, miraculously recovered after several days of prayer. In 1967, the Sisters converted the school into a nursing home and later sold it in 1972. The building served as a personal care home until 2013, at which time it was replaced by a new state-of-the-art facility in the neighbouring town of Niverville. Rehabilitation of the historic, but crumbling, building has been deemed not economically viable by its owner, thus it remains vacant and is pending demolition.[1][2][3]
St. Adolphe is serviced by a post office, an elementary and middle school, an indoor hockey arena, community centre, numerous local businesses, and the R.M. of Ritchot's administrative offices. Although it remains a predominantly francophone community, the number of non-French speaking residents has rapidly increased in recent years as St. Adolphe has become a bedroom community for the city of Winnipeg.
Road access to St. Adolphe is provided by Provincial Roads 200 and 210. The Pierre Delorme Bridge, the only local crossing over the Red River, links the town with Highway 75 two kilometers to the west. The bridge replaced a seasonal ferry in the 1980s. It was the last ferry on the Red River in Manitoba. As St. Adolphe lies in a prime flood zone, the community is protected by a ring dike.
In politics, St. Adolphe is located in the ridings of Provencher (federal) and Dawson Trail (provincial).
References
- ↑ "That Old Convent". Winnipeg Free Press. December 12, 2014.
- ↑ "St. Adolphe". Joie de Vivre Manitoba. Retrieved February 14, 2015.
- ↑ "History of the Personal Care Home". Niverville Heritage Centre. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
Coordinates: 49°40′28″N 97°06′38″W / 49.67444°N 97.11056°W