Sarto is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Manitoba, Canada, within the
Rural Municipality of Hanover
The Rural Municipality of Hanover is a rural municipality (RM) in southeastern Manitoba, Canada, located southeast of Winnipeg in Division No. 2.
It is Manitoba's most populous rural municipality and fourth-most populous municipality overall ...
. The community is centred on
PR 205, 7.5 kilometres (4.7 miles) west of
Grunthal and 16 kilometres (10 miles) south-west of
Steinbach.
It was originally called ''New York'' by the
French Canadians
French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French colonists first arriving in France's colony of Canada in 1608. The vast majority of French Canadians live in the provi ...
who settled there. The post office was opened in 1904, and it was named after
Pope Pius X
Pope Pius X (; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing Modernism in the Catholic Church, modern ...
, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto. Some have claimed that the community had been named after
Andrea del Sarto, a noted Italian Renaissance painter.
Sarto has two churches, St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church and Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
References
Unincorporated communities in Eastman Region, Manitoba
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