Elie is an unincorporated community recognized as a

local urban district A local urban district is a type of unincorporated community within the Canadian province of Manitoba. According to ''The Municipal Act'', a local urban district is a locality wholly within a rural municipality that "has at least 250 residents and ...

in the

Rural Municipality of Cartier Rural Municipality of Cartier is a rural municipality in the Central Plains Region, Manitoba, Central Plains and Winnipeg Metro Region, Metro Regions of Manitoba, Canada. The municipality is bordered on the west by the Rural Municipality of Portag ...

in the Canadian province of

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Geography

The community is located approximately west of

Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749, ...

along the

Trans-Canada Highway The Trans-Canada Highway (French: ; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on ...

. The

Assiniboine River The Assiniboine River (''; french: Rivière Assiniboine'') is a river that runs through the prairies of Western Canada in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. It is a tributary of the Red River. The Assiniboine is a typical meandering river with a sing ...

forms the northern boundary of the municipality of Cartier. Other significant communities around Elie include St. Eustache, Dacotah and Springstein.

History

In the early-1980s,

Telidon Telidon (from the Greek words τῆλε, ''tele'' "at a distance" and ἰδών, ''idon'' "seeing") was a videotex/teletext service developed by the Canadian Communications Research Centre (CRC) during the late 1970s and supported by commercial ...

videotex technology was being tested across Canada. Elie was chosen as one of the test beds, with the then government owned Manitoba Telephone System.

June 2007 tornado

left, upright=1.35, Canada's first, and only, F5 tornado approaching Elie in June 2007 On June 22, 2007, Elie was hit by an F5 tornado, the most powerful ever recorded in Canada, which damaged a

flour mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separated ...

and destroyed several houses, ripping two well-built houses off their foundations. A car was also thrown , but the tornado only caused one injury and no deaths, as the people had an early warning which provided them with enough time to look for protection. Warnings were provided by Environment Canada.

Demographics

In the

2021 Census of Population The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...

conducted by Statistics Canada, Elie had a population of 705 living in 250 of its 257 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 696. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Economy

The primary industry of Elie is

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

. The

CHMI-DT CHMI-DT (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada, broadcasting the Citytv network to the Winnipeg area. Owned and operated by Rogers Sports & Media, the station has studios at 8 Forks Market Road (nea ...

Transmitter was constructed in 1986 and is located here. A health care centre, a licensed daycare, a bank, a post office, a pharmacy, a grocery shop, a petrol station, an automotive service centre, agricultural equipment service centres, recreational vehicle sales and servicing, and an insurance agency are some of the businesses in this town.

References

{{MBDivision10 Designated places in Manitoba Local urban districts in Manitoba