Sainte Rose du Lac (often abbreviated Ste Rose du Lac) is an unincorporated urban community in the
Municipality of Ste. Rose,
Manitoba
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,
Canada
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.
Prior to 1 January 2015, it was designated as a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
. It is located approximately 50 km east-southeast of
Dauphin, and approximately 300 km west-northwest of
Winnipeg
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. Ste Rose du Lac had a population of 1,023 as of the
2011 Census.
It is served by
Laurier railway station and
Sainte Rose du Lac Airport.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Ste. Rose du Lac had a population of 997 living in 440 of its 479 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,021. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Media
A retransmitter of
CKSB (
St. Boniface
Boniface, OSB ( la, Bonifatius; 675 – 5 June 754) was an English Benedictine monk and leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire during the eighth century. He organised significant foundations of ...
), CKSB-1, first went on the air as CBKB on the AM frequency of 860 kHz on February 1, 1968.
Radio-Canada applied in 2012 to move its broadcast tower that transmits CKSB-FM-1 (
Ici Radio-Canada Premiere) to Ste. Rose du Lac, from Starbuck. CKSB-FM-1 now broadcasts on 88.1 MHz.
References
External links
Ste.Rose Webpage
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Designated places in Manitoba
Unincorporated communities in Parkland Region, Manitoba
Unincorporated urban communities in Manitoba
Manitoba communities with majority francophone populations
Sainte Rose
Populated places disestablished in 2015