| Lundar | |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Manitoba |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Lundar in Manitoba |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Interlake |
| Subdivision Type3: | Census Division |
| Subdivision Name3: | No. 18 |
| Leader Title1: | Governing Body |
| Leader Name1: | Rural Municipality of Coldwell Council |
| Leader Title2: | MP |
| Leader Name2: | James Bezan |
| Leader Title3: | MLA |
| Leader Name3: | Derek Johnson |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.10 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 499 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Utc Offset: | −6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −5 |
| Coordinates: | 50.6956°N -98.0308°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
| Postal Code: | R0C 1Y0 |
| Area Code: | 204 |
| Blank1 Name: | NTS Map |
| Blank1 Info: | 062J09 |
| Blank2 Name: | GNBC Code |
| Blank2 Info: | GAPPO |
Lundar is a local urban district in the Rural Municipality of Coldwell, Manitoba, Canada.[2] Located in Manitoba's Interlake Region, it is situated 99km (62miles) north of Winnipeg on Highway 6.
Nearby attractions include Lake Manitoba and its beaches, and the Lundar Beach Provincial Park.[3] Lundar is home to a Canada goose refuge, and a large statue of a Canada goose is located in the community.[4] Lundar was founded by Icelandic settlers as part of the region of New Iceland.[5]
The community is home to the Lundar Falcons, a junior "B" ice hockey team.
The Lundar Airport is located just northwest of Lundar.
A monument was erected in 1955 to commemorate the Icelandic pioneers of Lundar, as well as other Icelandic settlements in North America (such as Markland), who arrived in this region in 1887.
The Lundar Museum includes four historical buildings, including a former Canadian National Railway station, an early settler’s cabin, Mary Hill School No. 987, and the Notre Dame Roman Catholic church.[6]
A statue of a large Canada goose is located in Lundar. Designed by local naturalist Lawrence King and painted by artist Marlene Magnusson Hourd, it was created using funds raised in the mid-1970s, and unveiled on May 20, 1978.
Lundar is the nominative plural indefinite of lundur "wood, grove" in Icelandic, from Old Norse lundr, same thing. This place-name is related through Old Norman to the Canadian Patronymic Lalonde, which is from the Norman surnames Lalonde or Delalonde, themselves from place-names in Normandy called la Londe "the grove, the wood" (Lunda in ancient documents).
Lundar experiences a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb[7]) with warm to hot summers and cold winters. There are two weather stations in the Lundar area reporting climate data:
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lundar had a population of 499 living in 212 of its 249 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 462. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]