The Rural Municipality of Whitemouth 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, ...
located in southeastern
Manitoba
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The community of
Whitemouth is located in the municipality, which also contains the , and small parts of Manitoba's
Agassiz Provincial Forest
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(in its southwest quadrant) and
Whiteshell Provincial Forest (in its northeast corner).
Communities
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Darwin
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Elma
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River Hills
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Seven Sisters Falls
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Whitemouth
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada, Whitemouth had a population of 1,630 living in 631 of its 780 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,557. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
References
External links
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Official website ''Manitoba Historical Society: Rural Municipality of Whitemouth''* ''Geographic Names of Manitoba'' (pg. 294) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada
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Rural municipalities in Manitoba