PINE FALLS

village, southeastern Manitoba, Canada, on the Winnipeg River, near its influx into Lake Winnipeg. It originated around a paper mill built in 1925 and was sustained by the arrival of a railroad branch line from Winnipeg (60 miles southwest) in 1926. The site, within Fort Alexander Indian Reserve, was leased from the Department of Indian Affairs, and the Manitoba Pulp and Paper Company, which planned the village, is the administrator and chief employer of the community. Pine Falls is now a service centre for a lumbering and trapping region. Immediately to the east is Manitoba Hydro's Pine Falls power plant, which supplies electricity to metropolitan Winnipeg. Belair Provincial Forest and Grand Beach Provincial Park (9.5 square miles [25 square km]) are nearby. Pop (1981) 885.