Franklin, Manitoba

This article is about the community in the Rural Municipality of Rosedale, Manitoba, Canada. For the former municipality in Manitoba, see Rural Municipality of Franklin. For the current municipality, see Municipality of Emerson - Franklin.

Franklin is a community in Rural Municipality of Rosedale in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It is west of Neepawa, Manitoba, and was known as Bridge Creek, (or possibly Budge Creek), until 1890. It was then named Franklin and referred to a post office, a CPR midpoint and a school district so named. The origins of that name also are not clear, one source citing the U.S. president and another the explorer, Sir John Franklin.

References

• Geographic Names of Manitoba (p. 86) – the Millennium Bureau of Canada