The Rural Municipality of Grey () is a
rural municipality
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These include:
* Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...
in the
Canadian province
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of
Manitoba
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. It is named after
Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
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, the former
Governor General of Canada
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.
History
The RM was incorporated on February 9, 1906.
It amalgamated with the
Village of St. Claude on January 1, 2015, as a requirement of ''The Municipal Amalgamations Act'' for municipalities with a population less than 1,000 residents.
Communities
* Culross
Culross (/ˈkurəs/) (Scottish Gaelic: ''Cuileann Ros'', 'holly point or promontory') is a village and former royal burgh, and parish, in Fife, Scotland.
According to the 2006 estimate, the village has a population of 395. Originally, Culross ...
* Elm Creek
* Fannystelle
* Haywood
* St. Claude
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
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, Grey had a population of 2,517 living in 959 of its 1,034 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,648. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
*List of francophone communities in Manitoba
This is a list of francophone communities in Manitoba, i.e., municipalities and neighbourhoods with a high percentage of French-speakers in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
The provincial average of Manitobans whose mother tongue is French is ...
References
External links
*
{{Manitoba, rural=yes
2015 establishments in Manitoba
Manitoba municipal amalgamations, 2015
Grey
Grey (more frequent in British English) or gray (more frequent in American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma. It is the color of a cloud-covered s ...