Red Deer Lake is a community in the

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province of

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. A

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in Canadian census data, the community had a population of 25 in the Canada 2006 Census. Most municipal services are provided by Barrows such as

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and

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. The closest school is the Mountain View School in Barrows.

History

The community of Red Deer Lake was established by the

Red Deer Lumber Company The Red Deer Lumber Company was a forestry company that had approximately 10 logging operations along the Red Deer River, and owned and operated a sawmill on the south shore of Red Deer Lake. The Red Deer Lake sawmill was one of Manitoba's three ...

to house workers for their sawmill. The mill and the community were located on the south shore of Red Deer Lake, and were connected by rail to another Red Deer Lumber settlement known as Barrows. The sawmill closed in 1926, and was then purchased by The Pas Lumber Company. Much of the mill equipment was taken to mills around

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to be reused, and the rest of the mill site was salvaged for

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during

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. Even after the mill closed, people stayed and lived in the houses left behind by the company. Today, Red Deer Lake is a

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community with an

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focused on

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and

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Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Red Deer Lake had a population of 20 living in 10 of its 13 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 10. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

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