The Rural Municipality of Sifton is a rural municipality (RM) in the south-west portion of the

Canadian province Within the geographical areas of Canada, the ten provinces and three territories are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution. In the 1867 Canadian Confederation, three provinces of British North ...

of Manitoba.

History

The RM was incorporated in 1883. The former town of Oak Lake, located within Sifton, annexed by the RM on January 1, 2015 as a requirement of ''The Municipal Amalgamations Act'', which required municipalities with a population less than 1,000 to amalgamate with neighbouring municipalities. The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.

Geography

The most prominent geographical feature in the RM is Oak Lake. Other lakes include Plum Lakes and Maple Lake. The Assiniboine River runs near the northern border of the RM and at the extreme south-east corner of the RM is the Souris River. Other notable rivers include

Pipestone Creek Pipestone Creek is a waterway that runs through central Alberta, Canada. For example, over of Pipestone Creek parkland is situated in Millet, Alberta, with a combination of meadows and urban forest. It originates east of Pigeon Lake and flows ea ...

and Plum Creek.

Communities

* Algar * Belleview * Deleau * Findlay * Griswold * Oak Lake *

Oak Lake Beach Oak Lake Beach is a community in the Canadian province of Manitoba, located on the shore of Oak Lake. It is located within the Rural Municipality of Sifton. See also *List of communities in Manitoba Communities in the Province of Manitoba, C ...

Ralston Ralston may refer to: Place names United States *Ralston, California *Ralston, Iowa *Ralston, Nebraska *Ralston, Oklahoma *Ralston, Wyoming *Mount Ralston in the Sierra Nevada of California *Ralston Creek (Colorado) *Ralston Hall, Belmont, Califor ...

* Routledge

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

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, Sifton had a population of 1,239 living in 502 of its 771 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,256. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Attractions

In 2016, the

Nature Conservancy of Canada The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is a private, non-profit, charitable nature conservation and restoration organization based in Canada. Since its founding in 1962, the organization and its partners have protected of land and water across ...

bought 127 acres of land on the Oak Lake Sand Hills, east of Oak Lake. The property is a mixture of wetlands and rolling sandy hills and contains eleven uncommon and at-risk species.

Transportation

The following is a list of highways in the RM: * Manitoba Highway 1 *

Manitoba Highway 2 Provincial Trunk Highway 2 (PTH 2) is a highway in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It runs from Highway 13 at the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border to Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway near Oak Bluff. PTH 2 is the Manitoba portion of the Red Coat T ...

, also known as the Red Coat Trail *

Manitoba Highway 21 Provincial Trunk Highway 21 (PTH 21) is a provincial highway in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It runs from the U.S. border (where it meets with ND 14) to PTH 45 and PR 577 in the village of Oakburn. PTH 21 is two lanes and runs north– ...

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Manitoba Provincial Road 255 Provincial Road 255 (PR 255) is a provincial road in the Westman Region of the Canadian province of Manitoba. The road runs from the border with Saskatchewan west to Manitoba Provincial Road 254, PR 254, north of Oak Lake Beach ...

* Manitoba Provincial Road 543

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sifton 2015 establishments in Manitoba Manitoba municipal amalgamations, 2015 Rural municipalities in Manitoba Populated places disestablished in 2015 2015 disestablishments in Manitoba