St. Claude is an unincorporated community recognized as a

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in the

Rural Municipality of Grey The Rural Municipality of Grey (french: Municipalité rurale de Grey) is a rural municipality in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It named after Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, the former Governor General of Canada. History The RM was incorporate ...

within the Canadian province of

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that held village status prior to January 1, 2015.

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, St. Claude had a population of 625 living in 262 of its 277 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 603. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Location and features

It is located to the 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, ...

and is home to the world's largest smoking pipe. It is named the dairy capital of Manitoba as it is home to one of Manitoba's largest dairy processing plants and also displays a dairy museum filled with many artifacts. One of the other museums holds a two-headed calf, which was born over 120 years ago. It had a population of 590 in 2014. St. Claude also has a bilingual library, two grocery stores, a curling rink, a skating rink (which hosts public skating every Friday during the winter), a Chinese food restaurant, two gas stations and a clinic. Despite being a small community, St. Claude has many activities such as the annual Winter Carnival, the annual Summer Rodeo and the community-wide yard sales which occurs the first Saturday in May. The community is also a host to the Saint-Claude Gaol Museum (c. 1912), which was designated a municipal heritage site in 2005. At the

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, local people have their photo taken and put in the local newspaper, ''The Gazette''. It is featured in the 2006 film "One Week" starring Joshua Jackson. There are two running schools, École communautaire Gilbert-Rosset is the community's French-speaking school. Complexe Scolaire St. Claude School Complex is the community's bilingual school. It educates the greater portion of students in St. Claude.

Name

St. Claude was named for

Saint-Claude, Jura Saint-Claude () is a Communes of France, commune and a Subprefectures in France, sous-préfecture of the Jura (department), Jura Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eastern France. It lie ...

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References

External links

St. Claude information at the Rural Municipality Of Grey
{{Authority control Saint Claude Saint Claude Saint Claude Manitoba communities with majority francophone populations Populated places disestablished in 2015 2015 disestablishments in Manitoba