Pierson, Manitoba
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Pierson is an unincorporated community recognized as a
local urban district A local urban district is a type of unincorporated community within the Canadian province of Manitoba. According to ''The Municipal Act'', a local urban district is a locality wholly within a rural municipality that "has at least 250 residents and ...
located in the
Municipality of Two Borders The Municipality of Two Borders is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is located in the extreme south-west corner of the province in the Westman Region. The rural municipality's name is a reference to its lo ...
in southwestern
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,
Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
. The Antler–Lyleton Border Crossing is located south of Pierson. Pierson is home to the Carnival of Crafts which averages an attendance of 1,700 people. This event takes place at the Edward Sports Centre on the first Saturday in October.


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, Pierson had a population of 174 living in 85 of its 106 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 190. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.


Climate

Pierson has a
humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...
(
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) with great differences between summer and winter. The regime is typical of southern Manitoba, the northern edges of
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and the surrounding border region.


External links


Official Web site for Pierson, Manitoba


References

{{MBDivision5 Designated places in Manitoba Local urban districts in Manitoba Unincorporated communities in Westman Region