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Macdonald, Manitoba Macdonald is an unincorporated community in Manitoba northwest of Portage la Prairie. The Post Office opened in 1884 on section 33, township 12, range 8 west of the Prime Meridian. Originally known as Drumconner, it changed to its present name in ...

'' Macdonald is a

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lying adjacent to the southwest side of

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, Canada. It is part of the

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, but is not part of the smaller

Winnipeg census metropolitan area The Winnipeg Metropolitan Region (formerly called the Winnipeg Capital Region and the Manitoba Capital Region) is a metropolitan area in the Canadian province of Manitoba located in the Red River Valley in the southeast portion of the province of ...

. Macdonald's population as of the 2016 census was 7,162. The municipality is named for Canada's first

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, Sir

John A. Macdonald Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that sp ...

Communities

* Brunkild *

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* La Salle * Oak Bluff *

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* Sanford * Starbuck

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Macdonald had a population of 8,120 living in 2,743 of its 2,815 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 7,162. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Water

Water services are sourced from the

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and is treated by a Water Treatment Plant located in Sanford. In 2016 an application to the Manitoba Water Services Board to expand the raw water storage facility by adding a fourth pond with a 90 dam^{3 capacity was made. Included in the project was a new aeration system for all four ponds.}

References

External links

Official websiteCommunity Profile: Macdonald Rural Municipality, Manitoba; Statistics Canada

Map of Macdonald R.M. at Statcan
Macdonald John A. Macdonald {{Manitoba-geo-stub Macdonald

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