Lac Du Bonnet | |
Leader Name: | Loren Schinkel |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name1: | Manitoba |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Name2: | Eastman |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Established Date: | 1917 |
Established Title: | Incorporated |
Leader Title: | Reeve |
Official Name: | Rural Municipality of Lac Du Bonnet |
Population Density Km2: | 2.8 |
Area Land Km2: | 1,097.61 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 3,563 |
Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
Coordinates: | 50.2383°N -96.0756°W |
Image Caption: | Aerial view of RM Lac du Bonnet |
Subdivision Name3: | 1 |
Lac du Bonnet is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada, situated between the Nopiming Provincial Park to the northeast and Whiteshell Provincial Park to the southeast.
The separately-administered town of Lac du Bonnet lies within the borders of the municipality. It also mostly encircles the Pinawa local government district in the municipality's southeast part. A large portion of the municipality includes waters of the Winnipeg River and its tributaries.[2]
The RM contains the southern part of Manitoba's Brightstone Sand Hills Provincial Forest and the northern part of Agassiz Provincial Forest, although most of these forests lie in other RMs.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Lac du Bonnet had a population of 3,563 living in 1,459 of its 2,757 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 3,121. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]