Greenfield Lake is named in memory of Sapper Sean David Greenfield. It was named on November 4, 2010 by the Government of Manitoba.
Sean Greenfield was born in March 1983 in Pinawa, Manitoba but moved to Petawawa, Ontario as a youngster, where he attended high school. Later he studied graphic arts at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario before joining the Canadian Forces in December 2005, as a Combat Engineer. Following the completion of his sapper training at the Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering in Gagetown, he was posted to 2 Combat Engineer Regiment in Petawawa and deployed to Afghanistan with 24 Field Engineer Squadron. Sapper Sean David Greenfield was killed on January 31, 2009 as he participated in a major operation to locate and dismantle Taliban bomb-making installations in the Zhari District, west of Kandahar City.
