Kelsey is a Manitoban

rural municipality A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries. These include: * Rural municipality (Canada), Rural municipalities in Canada, a Lists of municipalities in Canada, type of municipa ...

embedded within the province's Northern Region. It consists of several disjoint parts. The largest part is Carrot Valley, located around and southwest of

The Pas The Pas ( ; french: Le Pas) is a town in Manitoba, Canada, located at the confluence of the Pasquia River and the Saskatchewan River and surrounded by the unorganized Northern Region of the province. It is approximately northwest of the provinc ...

along the Carrot River, but the communities of Wanless and

Cranberry Portage Cranberry Portage is an unincorporated community recognized as a local urban district located in the Rural Municipality of Kelsey, Manitoba. It was an important part of the pre-European contact trade routes of the Cree and Assiniboine peoples. L ...

, located further north, are also part of the municipality. It is 867.64 km² large. Also lying in the area around The Pas is the

Opaskwayak Cree Nation The Opaskwayak Cree Nation (; OCN, Cree: ᐅᐸᐢᑿᔭᐠ , ''opâskwêyâhk'', meaning: at the wooded narrows) is a First Nations band government in Manitoba, Canada. Most of the on-reserve population lives near The Pas on the OCN 21E reser ...

Indian reserve.

Communities

* Freshford * Grace Lake * Moostissoostikwan * Ralls Island *

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(independent Town) * Umpherville * Wanless *

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Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Kelsey had a population of 2,181 living in 857 of its 1,041 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,419. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. According to the 2011 National Household Survey, the population of Kelsey is 2,125. The population density was 2.6 per km². The racial make up of Kelsey is solely made up of Aboriginals (44.0%);

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(23.1%) and

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(20.7%), and

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(56.0%). The religious make up of Kelsey is; Christian (74.5%), non-religious (25.5%). Every resident of Kelsey is a

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. About 4.0% of the population can speak a language that is not recognized as an official language of Canada.

External links

Official website

Sources

Map of Kelsey R.M. at Statcan

''Manitoba Municipalities: Rural Municipality of Kelsey''
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