Baden | |
Pushpin Map: | Manitoba |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Manitoba |
Coordinates: | 52.781°N -101.218°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Manitoba |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Northern Manitoba |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Baden is a northern community in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is part of a group of five communities in the region, all built to serve logging operations in the Porcupine Provincial Forest. The others are National Mills, Powell, Red Deer Lake, and the largest, Barrows, where the nearest school and fire service are located. The community contains 15 housing units.[1]
It was named by the Canadian National Railway after Sir Robert Baden-Powell, a British General.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Baden had a population of 10 living in 5 of its 8 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 17. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Geographic Names of Manitoba - the Millennium Bureau of Canada