Gilbert Plains is an unincorporated urban community in the

Gilbert Plains Municipality Gilbert Plains Municipality is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba. History The RM was incorporated on January 1, 2015, via the amalgamation of the RM of Gilbert Plains and the Town of Gilbert Plains. It was forme ...

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, that was classified as a

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prior to January 1, 2015. It is situated on the

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, in the

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between

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and Duck Mountain Provincial Park. Gilbert Plains was featured during season 3 of the CBC program '' Still Standing''. The episode originally aired on September 5, 2017.

History

Incorporated in 1906, the original townsite was some miles to the south. The community was named for Gilbert Ross, a

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man who was living in the region when the first

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settler,

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, arrived. On 1 January 2015, the Town of Gilbert Plains relinquished its town status when it amalgamated with the

Rural Municipality of Gilbert Plains The Rural Municipality of Gilbert Plains is a former rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was originally incorporated as a rural municipality on March 30, 1897. It ceased on January 1, 2015 as a result of its provincial ...

to form the Gilbert Plains Municipality.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Gilbert Plains had a population of 773 living in 356 of its 407 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 785. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Media

A local newspaper, ''The Exponent'', serviced both Gilbert Plains and its neighboring town, Grandview. ''The Exponent'' closed on 24 February 2017, after 117 years of operation.

Transportation

The community is located on

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and the CN

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line between Dauphin and Grandview, approximately northwest of

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. Gilbert Plains railway station receives

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service. The community previously had an

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Climate

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