The Rural Municipality of Minto is a former

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(RM) in the

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of Manitoba. It was originally incorporated as a rural municipality on November 15, 1902. It ceased on January 1, 2015 as a result of its provincially mandated

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with the RM of Odanah to form the

Rural Municipality of Minto-Odanah The Rural Municipality of Minto-Odanah is a List of rural municipalities in Manitoba, rural municipality (RM) in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba that incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of t ...

. The former RM is located north of

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and was named after Sir

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, (; 9 July 18451 March 1914), known as Viscount Melgund by courtesy from 1859 to 1891, was a British peer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the eighth since Canadi ...

. It had a land area of . The former RM's economic base is primarily agricultural. The historic community of Clanwilliam lies in the northern part of the former RM.

Communities

Bethany Bethany ( grc-gre, Βηθανία,Murphy-O'Connor, 2008, p152/ref> Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܥܢܝܐ ''Bēṯ ʿAnyā'') or what is locally known as Al-Eizariya or al-Azariya ( ar, العيزرية, " laceof Lazarus"), is a Palestinian town in the West B ...

* Clanwilliam

References

''Manitoba Municipal Profiles''

External links

Map of Minto R.M. at Statcan
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