Lorne | |
Official Name: | Municipality of Lorne |
Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
Coordinates: | 49.4436°N -98.7494°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Manitoba |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Pembina Valley Region |
Subdivision Type3: | Division |
Subdivision Name3: | Pilot Mound Census Division |
Established Title: | Incorporated (amalgamated) |
Established Date: | January 1, 2015 |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CST |
Utc Offset1: | -6 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | -5 |
The Municipality of Lorne (French: Municipalité de Lorne) is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
See also: Rural Municipality of Lorne, Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Manitoba and Somerset, Manitoba. The RM was created on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RM of Lorne and the villages of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes and Somerset.[1] It was formed as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act, which required that municipalities with a population less than 1,000 amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015.[2] The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lorne had a population of 2,904 living in 1,103 of its 1,199 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 3,041. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]