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St. Malo is a local urban district [3] located in the Rural Municipality of De Salaberry, approximately 70 km south of The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Most of the community's residents are bilingual francophone of Métis or Québécois heritage.
The parish of Saint-Malo was established in 1863 by Canadiens and was incorporated as a municipality in 1910. The town's name evokes Saint-Malo, France— the hometown in Brittany of Jacques Cartier, the first European explorer to describe and map modern Quebec and to name his discoveries as "Canada".
Saint-Malo was rebuilt over a 12-year period from 1948 to 1960. It is a subprefecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine. The commune of Saint-Servan was merged with Paramé, and became the commune of Saint-Malo in 1967. Saint-Malo was the site of an Anglo-French summit in 1998 that led to a significant agreement regarding European defence policy.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, De Salaberry had a population of 3,918 living in 1,191 of its 1,295 total private dwellings, a change of 9.4% from its 2016 population of 3,580. With a land area of 667.57 km 2 (257.75 sq mi), it was sparsely populated, with a population density of 5.9/km 2 (15.2/sq mi) in 2021. [1]
Communities in the province of Manitoba, Canada include incorporated municipalities, unincorporated communities and First Nations communities. Types of incorporated municipalities include urban municipalities, rural municipalities and local government districts. Urban municipalities can be named as cities, towns, villages or simply urban ...
St-Pierre-Jolys (formerly Rivière-aux-Rats/Rat River, St-Pierre/St. Pierre) is a village in the Canadian province of Manitoba, located 50 km (31 mi) southeast of Winnipeg on Highway 59 near the Rat River. It is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of De Salaberry, and the nearest communities to it are Steinbach, St. Malo, Morris and Niverville.
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Goods can be shipped by truck and rail from Canada through southern Manitoba to Mexico and all points between. The border crossing at Emerson processes over $15 billion in trade traffic annually (2013), more than any other border crossing in Western Canada, and 5th largest in Canada. An estimated 400,000 commercial trucks crossed the border ...