agricultural
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town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an o ...
of about 3,000 people in the
Pembina Valley Region
The Pembina Valley (french: Vallée-de-la-Pembina) is an informal geographic region of the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is named for its major geographical feature, the Pembina Valley, which runs through the southwestern part of the region.
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of southern
Manitoba
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, Canada. Carman is at the junction of Highways 3 and 13, 40 minutes southwest of
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...
. It is surrounded by the
Rural Municipality of Dufferin
Dufferin is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. The separately administered town of Carman lies near its centre.
The R.M. was named after Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava who ...
, in the heart of a rich prairie agricultural belt, north of the American state of
North Dakota
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.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Carman had a population of 3,114 living in 1,402 of its 1,466 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 3,164. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Arts and culture
Located in a historic railway station, the Golden Prairie Arts Council facilitates local arts activities. The Carman Active Living Centre (ALC) was established in 2002.
Every April the Canadian Wall of Fame for exceptional violin talent is held. In February (vocal/choral/speech arts and band/instrumental) and April (piano/strings and dance), Carman hosts the Tempo Festival of the Arts. One of Manitoba's longest existing choral groups is the Sonatrice Singers. The group has been meeting and performing since 1972.
Sports
Sports facilities include an ice arena and an 18-hole golf course. The curling club shares clubroom space with golfers. The town contains several baseball diamonds and soccer pitches. Local hockey teams include the Carman Beavers and the Carman Collegiate Cougars.
Education
Carman is home to a
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.Carman Collegiate, Carman Elementary School, Dufferin Christian School, and various Hutterian schools around the area.
Economy
Large agricultural businesses include Aubin Nurseries (perennials, shrubs and trees), and Vanderveens Greenhouses, (annuals) both of which are large Canadian wholesalers of plants.
Events
Carman Country Fair
The Dufferin Agricultural Society Inc. hosts one of the oldest running fairs in Manitoba; the Carman Country Fair. The fair was established in 1879 and is an affiliate of the Canadian Association of Fairs and Exhibitions.
The three-day event is held annually on the second weekend in July. Events of the fair include 4-H and livestock shows, craft, flower and baking competitions, trade show venues, motor sports shows and a midway, along with entertainment throughout the weekend.
Climate
Carman has a
humid continental climate
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(
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* Deerfield Beach, Florida, a city
* Decafluorobutane, a fluorocarbon gas
* Dem Franchize Boyz, former hip hop group, Atlanta, Georgia
* Dfb, Köppen climate classification for Humid continental climate
* Distributed-feedback ...
). The highest humidex reading in Canada was recorded in Carman in 2007, with an extreme high of 53.
Health services
Carman is a part of the Southern Regional Health Authority.
Carman Memorial Hospital
The 28-bed Carman Memorial Hospital, at 350 - 4th Street S.W. on the south edge of town, was built in 1982 and is served by several doctors and a staff of 75. It provides family medicine, a surgical program, pediatrics, a dietitian service, physiotherapy, diagnostics services, an internal medicine consultant and an in-house pharmacy.
There are two Medical Clinics in the Town of Carman. One clinic imports doctors from neighboring Winkler, Manitoba. The other clinic has two well established doctors (one being a surgeon) who have served Carman for many years.
Emergency services
The Carman Fire Department has approximately 25
volunteer firefighters
A volunteer fire department (VFD) is a fire department of volunteers who perform fire suppression and other related emergency services for a local jurisdiction. Volunteer and retained (on-call) firefighters are expected to be on call to respond t ...
. The department coverage includes both the Town of Carman and the R.M. of Dufferin.
Carman Ambulance is one of many ambulance services within the
Southern Regional Health Authority Southern Health-Santé Sud (SH-SS) is the governing body responsible for healthcare delivery and regulation for the eponymous health region in southern Manitoba—covering southeastern and south-central Manitoba, in particular.
Southern Health-San ...
. The service area covers about and includes the town of Carman, Elm Creek, Stephenfield, Graysville, Roland, Homewood and Sperling.
Media
* The Valley Leader (newspaper), is published weekly and delivered to every home in Carman on Thursday. It stopped printing in 2020 and since then The Dufferin Standard has started up
*Up until 1964, a 500' transmitter for
CBC Radio
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was in Carman, Manitoba, at which time a new centralized communications tower at
Starbuck, Manitoba
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Starbuck is about a 25-minute drive from Winnipeg along Provincial Trunk Highway (PTH) 2. Also Provincial Road 332 runs north ...
CBW-FM
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,
CBWT
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, and
CBWFT
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. In February, 1952 a small plane with 3 passengers struck the Carman tower due to heavy fog. None of the passengers survived.
*Numerous movies have been filmed in and around the Town of Carman, including '' The Defender'' (1989), ''
We Were the Mulvaneys
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The novel chronicles the Mulvaneys, a seemingly perfect family living in ...
Ed Belfour
Edward John Belfour (born April 21, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Belfour was born in Carman, Manitoba and grew up playing hockey. He played junior hockey for the Winkler Flyers before going to the University of ...
, hockey goalie
*
Jack Carson
John Elmer Carson (October 27, 1910 – January 2, 1963) was a Canadian-born American film actor. Carson often played the role of comedic friend in films of the 1940s and 1950s, including ''The Strawberry Blonde'' (1941) with James Cagney and ...