Lundar is an unincorporated community recognized as a

local urban district A local urban district is a type of unincorporated community within the Canadian province of Manitoba. According to ''The Municipal Act'', a local urban district is a locality wholly within a rural municipality that "has at least 250 residents and ...

situated in

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. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Coldwell, in Manitoba's

Interlake Region The Interlake Region is an informal geographic region of the Canadian province of Manitoba that lies roughly between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The region comprises 14 rural municipalities, one city (th ...

, 99 km north of

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on Hwy 6. Nearby attractions are

Lake Manitoba Lake Manitoba (french: Lac Manitoba) is the List of lakes of Canada, 14th largest lake in Canada and the List of lakes by area, 33rd largest lake in the world with a total area of . It is located within the Provinces and territories of Canada, Cana ...

and its beaches, and the

Lundar Provincial Park Lundar Beach Provincial Park is a provincial park on the east shore of Lake Manitoba in Manitoba, Canada. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Coldwell, 18 kilometres west of Lundar, Manitoba. The park contains a campground with 41 spots, ...

. Lundar is home to a

Canada goose The Canada goose (''Branta canadensis''), or Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is o ...

refuge, and a large statue of a Canada goose is located in the community. Lundar was founded by Icelandic settlers.

Toponymy

''Lundar'' is the nominative plural indefinite of ''lundur'' "wood, grove" in Icelandic, from

Old Norse Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and t ...

''lundr'', same thing. This place-name is related through Old Norman to the Canadian Patronymic Lalonde, which is from the Norman surnames Lalonde or Delalonde, themselves from place-names in

Normandy Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...

called

la Londe La Londe () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. It was first mentioned in historical records in 1170. Geography A forestry and farming village situated some southwest of Rouen, at the junctio ...

"the grove, the wood" (''Lunda'' in ancient documents).

Climate

Lundar experiences a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

(

Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...

''Dfb'') with warm to hot summers and cold winters. There are two weather stations in the Lundar area reporting climate data:

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...

, Lundar had a population of 499 living in 212 of its 249 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 462. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

Designated places in Manitoba Local urban districts in Manitoba Places in Canada settled by Icelanders {{Manitoba-geo-stub