The Rural Municipality of Blanshard is a former
rural municipality
A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries.
These include:
* Rural municipalities in Canada, a type of municipal status in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, ...
(RM) in the
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...
of Manitoba. It was originally incorporated as a rural municipality on December 22, 1883. It ceased on January 1, 2015 as a result of its
provincially mandated amalgamation with the
RM of Saskatchewan and the
Town of Rapid City to form the
Rural Municipality of Oakview
The Rural Municipality of Oakview is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba, incorporated on January 1, 2015 as a result of the amalgamation of the rural municipalities of Blanshard, Saskatchewan, and the town of Ra ...
.
It was located northwest of the city of
Brandon.
Communities
* Brumlie
*
Cardale
* Norman
*
Oak River
References
''Manitoba Historical Society - Rural Municipality of Blanshard''Map of Blanshard R.M. at Statcan
External links
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Blanshard
Populated places disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Manitoba