Local media

Newspapers

  • Dauphin Herald

Radio

  • CKDM 730 AM, Country and Adult Contemporary
  • CBWW-FM 105.3, CBC Radio One (repeats CBW Winnipeg)
  • (Future Station) 106.1, CBC Radio Two

Television

Dauphin was formerly served by a local newscast, which aired on the city's now-defunct retransmitter of CBWT Winnipeg but was produced by Craig Media instead of by CBC Television.

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|2 (VHF)

|CKND-TV-2

|Global

|Rebroadcaster of CKND-DT (Winnipeg)

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|12 (VHF)

|CKYD-TV

|CTV

|Rebroadcaster of CKY-DT (Winnipeg)

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|27 (UHF)

|CHMI-TV-3

|City

|Rebroadcaster of CHMI-DT (Winnipeg)

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Notable people

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  • Aimé Adam, politician
  • George Balcan, radio broadcaster
  • James Ball competed for Canada in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands in the 400 metres, where he won the silver medal
  • Lt.-Col. William George Barker, VC, Canada's most decorated serviceman; born in Dauphin in 1894; namesake of the Dauphin airport and a school
  • Frances Bay (1919–2011), attended school in Dauphin; actress in TV and films; Blue Velvet, Happy Gilmore
  • James Whitney Bettes, politician
  • Angus Bonnycastle, politician
  • John C. Bowen, politician
  • James Langstaff Bowman (1879–1951), a Dauphin lawyer; first Manitoban to be Speaker of the House of Commons
  • Donald Bryk, judge
  • Theodore Arthur Burrows (1857–1929), sometime MLA and MP for Dauphin, lieutenant-governor of Manitoba from 1926 until his death
  • Don Caley (1945-2016), hockey goaltender who played one game in the NHL for the St. Louis Blues
  • Jim Cardiff, hockey player
  • Robert Cruise, politician
  • Will Ferguson, writer
  • James Galbraith, politician
  • Tammy Gillis, actress
  • Erving Goffman (1922–1982), acclaimed sociologist and author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life; grew up in Dauphin
  • John Gunne, politician
  • Robin Hahn, equestrian
  • Christine Harapiak, judge
  • Robert Hawkins, Speaker of the Manitoba Legislature 1937–1949
  • Ernest Charles Hoy, born in Dauphin in 1895; World War I flying ace who scored 13 victories in just a month and a half in 1918; on 7 August 1919, flew the first airmail flight over the Canadian Rockies
  • Russ Jackman, curler
  • Robert Kabel, hockey player
  • Mike Korney, hockey player
  • Les Kozak, hockey player
  • Brigette Lacquette, hockey player
  • Laverne Lewycky, politician
  • Inky Mark, former mayor of Dauphin, and former member of parliament for the riding of Dauphin—Swan River—Marquette
  • Means, musical group
  • Ernest McGirr, politician
  • Ben Meisner, radio broadcaster
  • Barry Merrell, hockey player
  • Bif Naked (born Beth Torbert on 15 June 1971), Juno Award-winning Canadian rock singer-songwriter, poet, cartoonist, and actress; attended Dauphin Regional Comprehensive Secondary School in the 1980s
  • Joan O'Malley, seamstress of first Canadian flag
  • John Plohman, politician
  • Art Pollon, curler
  • W. B. Scarth, politician
  • Ted Schellenberg, politician
  • Jim Schraefel, hockey player
  • Panteleymon Shpylka, priest
  • John Solomon, politician
  • Barry Trotz, former head coach of the National Hockey League's New York Islanders and 2018 Stanley cup winner; born and raised in Dauphin
  • William John Ward, politician
  • Troy Westwood, longtime CFLer for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
  • Thomas Wilkinson, bishop
  • Jim Williams, curler
  • Fred Zaplitny, politician

See also

  • Royal eponyms in Canada

References