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Location, workforce, cluster, utilities, land and wastewater, with sources.

07.2

Location and access

One hour to a trimodal port. One hour to the United States.

Steinbach Winnipeg 51 km, about 1 hour CentrePort Canada 59 km, about 1 hour Ste. Anne 16 km La Broquerie 13 km Landmark 19 km Vita 44 km Niverville 27 km Grunthal 18 km New Bothwell 16 km 25 km 50 km MANITOBA UNITED STATES Designated for the immigration pilot Community in the area Nearby Boundaries: OpenStreetMap, ODbL

PUBLISHED BY SOUTHEAST MANITOBA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. STEINBACH ALSO HAS A REGIONAL AIRPORT WITH A 3,000 FT BY 75 FT LIGHTED PAVED RUNWAY AND 100LL AVGAS AND JET-A ON SITE.

07.3

People

Workforce today, and the hiring route for tomorrow.

Median age 36
Immigration route Southeast Manitoba is a designated region under the Rural Community Immigration Pilot, covering the City of Steinbach, RM of Hanover, RM of Ste. Anne, Town of Ste. Anne, RM of La Broquerie, RM of Piney, parts of the RM of Tache and more. Employers in these communities can apply for RCIP designation, which attracts top talent from all over the world
Settlement track record More than 4,000 families from 100 countries settled in the past decade by Eastman Immigrant Services
Post-secondary and training RRC Polytech Steinbach campus, Steinbach Bible College, Academy of Learning, Eastman Education Centre
Schools Known for some of the best English and Francophone schools in Manitoba
Healthcare Home of Bethesda Regional Health Centre, serving the City of Steinbach, RM of Hanover, RM of Ste. Anne, Town of Ste. Anne and surrounding Southeast Manitoba communities. The 73-bed acute care facility offers 24/7 emergency care, surgery, CancerCare oncology and chemotherapy treatment, obstetrics and labour and delivery, dialysis, and full diagnostic imaging, giving residents and employers access to major specialized care close to home without a trip to Winnipeg. Also served by Hopital Ste-Anne Hospital, multiple walk-in clinics and other services

07.4

The cluster

Hog production, Manitoba's dairy capital, a diversified field crop hotbed and a world-class manufacturing base.

Together they make this region a major economic driver of the province.

  • 29%

    of Canada's hog production comes from Manitoba

    PROVINCE OF MANITOBA, 2024

  • $1.7B

    in Manitoba pork exports

    PROVINCE OF MANITOBA, 2024

  • 47%

    of Canada's live-pig exports leave from Manitoba

    PROVINCE OF MANITOBA

  • $4.5B

    projected GDP impact of Protein Industries Canada

    PROTEIN INDUSTRIES CANADA

07.5

Utilities and inputs

Every claim, with the evidence behind it.

Open any one for the source and the caveat.

Natural spring water

Our most abundant resource is hidden underground. This region draws natural spring water from the regional water table, and it has supplied our processors for generations.
Ask for the current assay, quality profile and available volumes and we will send the file. If your process is water-intensive, raise it in the first conversation.

Industrial power among the lowest cost in North America

Manitoba Hydro supply is predominantly hydroelectric and Manitoba's industrial rates are among the lowest on the continent. For an energy-intensive line that is a structural cost position rather than a one-year incentive that expires.
Request the current rate schedule and we will walk your load through it.

Cold-climate free cooling

For any process carrying a heat-rejection load the climate does part of the work for a meaningful stretch of the year. Combined with the power rate it changes the operating-cost model for cooling-heavy processing.

A direct path to permanent residency

The Rural Community Immigration Pilot lets designated employers in this region hire internationally and put the candidate on a direct path to permanent residency. Steinbach opens a new intake on the first business day of each month and closes it at 7 applications.
Eastman Immigrant Services has settled more than 4,000 families from 100 countries here in the past decade, which is the part that makes people stay after they arrive.

07.6

The honest read

Strengths and constraints in one table.

A region that hides its constraints will surprise you after you have signed. Here are ours, in the same table as the strengths.

STRONG

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    Feedstock and cluster density

    Roughly 29 percent of Canada's hogs, Western Canada's dairy capital, processors and carriers inside one hour.

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    Access

    One hour to a trimodal inland port and Foreign Trade Zone, one hour to the United States, cargo airport within 100 km.

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    Power

    Among the lowest industrial electricity rates in North America, predominantly hydroelectric.

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    The hiring route

    A direct path to permanent residency through a designated employer here.

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    Cost of living

    Materially below the major metros most relocating staff come from. This is the line that makes hiring work.

CONSTRAINED

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    Serviced industrial land

    Limited. Ask for the current serviced and unserviced breakdown before you model a timeline.

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    Wastewater capacity

    Constrained, and the region's active infrastructure file. Ask for this month's status.

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    Applied research inside the cluster

    The feedstock and the processors are here. The applied food science is elsewhere.

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    Cold storage and packaging

    Thin relative to processing volume. Currently bought outside the region.

07.7

Sources

Where these numbers come from.

Hog, pork and export figures: Province of Manitoba hog sector data and Manitoba Co-operator, 2024. Supercluster: Protein Industries Canada. Immigration timelines: the Rural Community Immigration Pilot. Regional population, workforce, airport and access figures: Southeast Manitoba Economic Development. Investment figures: CBC News, RealAgriculture, Province of Manitoba news releases, Government of Canada.

If you need a figure we have not published, ask. If we do not have it we will say so.

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