Boissevain, Manitoba

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Boissevain, not far from Turtle Mountain and Turtle Mountain Provincial Park, also formerly hosted the "International Turtle Derby" each summer. "Tommy the Turtle" is a 28-foot-tall, 10,000-lb statue that serves as an icon for both the Turtle Derby and the town as a whole.

Boissevain School was nominated one of Canada's 30 best schools by Maclean's Magazine.

Boissevain is a small town of about 1,500 people and it is between Killarney and Deloraine on the east and west with Brandon in the north. The population of the surrounding area, within a 50 kilometre radius of the town, is about 15,000. [http://www.boissevain.ca/bsvn_profile/population.html Boissevain Population] (accessed December 7, 2007)]

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* [http://www.boissevain.ca/ Boissevain community website]