The Rural Municipality of Alexander (french: Municipalité rurale d'Alexander) is a

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in the

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. The town of

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lies adjacent to the municipality, as does the

Sagkeeng First Nation The Sagkeeng First Nation (also known as Sagkeeng Anicinabe) is a Treaty-1 First Nation in the Eastman Region of Manitoba, Canada, that is composed of the Anishinaabe people indigenous to the area at or near the Fort Alexander Indian Reserve #3 (o ...

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. The municipality contains all of Manitoba's Belair Provincial Forest in its westernmost part, plus the northern half of Brightstone Sand Hills Provincial Forest in its central part.

History

It was first incorporated as a

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in 1945 and received its present status as a rural municipality on 1 January 1997. The RM had been under a boil water advisory since April 18, 2006, until a $5-million

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had been installed in September 2019.

Communities

Demographics

In the

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conducted by Statistics Canada, Alexander had a population of 3,854 living in 1,845 of its 4,347 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 3,333. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

External links

Official website

Map of Alexander R.M. at Statcan

''Manitoba Historical Society - Rural Municipality of Alexander''
Manitoba communities with majority francophone populations

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