Warren 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 a ...

north-west of

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. It is located in the

Rural Municipality of Woodlands Woodlands is a rural municipality (RM) in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It lies in the southern part of the Interlake and is named for the community of Woodlands, which itself is named for the wooded lands of the area. Histo ...

. The post office opened in 1882 as Hanlan and was renamed to Warrenton in 1912. The community and Canadian National Railway point were named Warren, while the post office remained Warrenton. Warrenton was rescinded in 1955 and Geographic Board of Canada correspondence in 1905 indicated that the post office and township were named Hanlan after Edward "Ned" Hanlan, "champion oarsman of the world" from 1880 to 1884. Warren was named by the CNR in 1905, after A.E. Warren, Western Vice President of the CNR. A 40,000-bushel wooden grain elevator was built here in 1948 by Manitoba Pool Elevator. An attached crib annex was added in 1958, more than doubling its capacity. It was shut down in 2000, but was acquired by the municipality and the site is now used for community events. Today, Warren is home to several organizations, tourist venues, services, an elementary school and a high school.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Warren had a population of 1,015 living in 329 of its 341 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 818. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

* ''Geographic Names of Manitoba'' (pg. 287) - ''Warren'' - the Millennium Bureau of Canada {{MBDivision14 Designated places in Manitoba Local urban districts in Manitoba Unincorporated communities in Interlake Region, Manitoba