Lac du Bonnet is a

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, ...

in the province of

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, situated between the

Nopiming Provincial Park Nopiming Provincial Park is a natural provincial park in Manitoba, Canada, located on the southeast side of the province, along the boundary with Ontario. The area was designated a provincial park by the Government of Manitoba in 1976. The park ...

to the northeast and

Whiteshell Provincial Park Whiteshell Provincial Park is a provincial park in southeast Manitoba, approximately east of the city of Winnipeg. The park is considered to be a Class II protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories. It is in size. ...

to the southeast. The separately-administered town of Lac du Bonnet lies within the borders of the municipality. It also mostly encircles the

Pinawa Pinawa is a local government district and small community of 1,331 residents (2016 census) located in southeastern Manitoba, Canada. It is 110 kilometres north-east of Winnipeg. The town is situated on the Canadian Shield within the western bounda ...

local government district in the municipality's southeast part. A large portion of the municipality includes waters of the

Winnipeg River The Winnipeg River is a Canadian river that flows roughly northwest from Lake of the Woods in the province of Ontario to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. This river is long from the Norman Dam in Kenora to its mouth at Lake Winnipeg. Its watershed is ...

and its tributaries. The RM contains the southern part of Manitoba's Brightstone Sand Hills Provincial Forest and the northern part of

Agassiz Provincial Forest Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he rec ...

, although most of these forests lie in other RMs.

Communities

* Allegra * Lee River * McArthur Falls * Milner Ridge * Seddons Corner (part) * Spring Well

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, Lac du Bonnet had a population of 3,563 living in 1,459 of its 2,757 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 3,121. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

External links

Official website

Map of Lac du Bonnet R.M. at Statcan
{{Manitoba-geo-stub Rural municipalities in Manitoba