Marchand is a village located in the

Rural Municipality of La Broquerie La Broquerie (french: Municipalité rurale de La Broquerie) is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada, located in the southeastern part of the province, just south and east of the city of Steinbach. The municipality ...

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, southeast of

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,6 ...

and about ten

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s southeast of the city of

La Broquerie La Broquerie is a local urban district in the Rural Municipality of La Broquerie, Manitoba, Canada. It is a predominantly Francophone community located approximately 10 kilometres east of Steinbach, Manitoba and 70 kilometres southeast of the ...

. It is a

Franco-Manitoban Franco-Manitobans (french: Franco-Manitobains) are French Canadians or Canadian francophones living in the province of Manitoba. According to the 2016 Canadian Census, 40,975 residents of the province stated that French was their mother tongue. In ...

community. The village of Marchand is the front door to access the Marchand Provincial Park and the

Sandilands Provincial Forest The Sandilands Provincial Forest is a Forests of Canada, forest located within the Eastman Region, southeastern area of Manitoba, Canada, and consists of thousands of acres of sand hills, forest, wetlands, and mostly unpopulated crown lands. Sand ...

. In 1929, writer

Gabrielle Roy Gabrielle Roy (March 22, 1909July 13, 1983) was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba and one of the major figures in French Canadian literature. Early life Roy was born in 1909 in Saint-Boniface (now part of Winnipeg), Manitoba, an ...

got her first teaching position at the local school in Marchand. The town is home of Canadian Gold Beverages, which produces bottled, carbonated, and flavored water. It also produces a

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known as Pic A Pop. It has received multiple honors at the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting competition for bottled water and carbonated water.

Notable people

, writer

References

External links

R.M. of La Broqerie
(official website) Localities in Manitoba Unincorporated communities in Eastman Region, Manitoba Manitoba communities with majority francophone populations {{Manitoba-geo-stub