Whitehead is a

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in the province of

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. It is west of

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and the principle communities within its boundaries Kemnay and

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. It became a municipality on 22 December 1883 and was named for Joseph Whitehead, a railway contractor who was active in the area during the 1880s.

Communities

* Ashbury * Beresford * Kemnay * Villette * Roseland

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Whitehead had a population of 1,679 living in 612 of its 645 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,651. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

''Manitoba Historical Society: Rural Municipality of Whitehead''
* ''Geographic Names of Manitoba'' (pg. 294) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada
Map of Whitehead R.M. at Statcan
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