The Rural Municipality of South Cypress 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

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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 ou ...

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

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with the Village of Glenboro to form the

Municipality of Glenboro – South Cypress The Municipality of Glenboro – South Cypress is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba. History The RM was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RM of South Cypress and the Village of Glenboro. ...

. The former RM is located in the

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of the province and contains most of

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and most of Spruce Woods Provincial Forest. The

2006 census 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

reported a population of 834.

Communities

*Ashdown *Aweme *Skalholt *Stockton * Treesbank

References

External links

*
South Cypress, MB Community Profile

Map of South Cypress R.M. at Statcan
South Cypress Populated places disestablished in 2015 2015 disestablishments in Manitoba {{Manitoba-geo-stub