| Official Name: | Sainte Agathe |
| Mapsize: | 205px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Manitoba |
| Pushpin Label: | Ste. Agathe |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Ste Agathe in Manitoba |
| Coordinates: | 49.5683°N -97.1825°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Manitoba |
| Subdivision Name2: | Eastman |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 1876 [1] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Chris Ewen |
| Leader Title1: | Councillor |
| Leader Name1: | Joel Lemoine |
| Leader Title2: | Governing Body |
| Leader Name2: | Rural Municipality of Ritchot |
| Elevation M: | 238 |
| Elevation Ft: | 781[2] |
| Population Total: | 643 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 Census |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
| Postal Code: | R0G 0C9, R0G 1Y0, R0G 1Y1[4] |
| Leader Title4: | MP (Provencher) |
| Leader Name4: | Ted Falk |
| Leader Title3: | MLA (Springfield-Ritchot) |
| Leader Name3: | Ron Schuler |
| Timezone: | CST |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Ste. Agathe is a primarily francophone community in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot, Manitoba, Canada, located along the Red River.[5] [6] Réjean Saive, Works in the area, former hockey player, World Juniors 2005
Ste. Agathe is in the provincial riding of Morris and the federal riding of Provencher.
The village was founded in the mid-19th century on one of the Red River Trails by settlers from Quebec named Grouette, who built a homestead on the west bank of the Red River and farmed grain in the rich soil of the valley. A dock allowed other settlers to reach the east side of the river via ferry with their grain-laden Red River carts; a community, originally called Pointe-à-Grouette, formed around the docking point at some time before 1871.
The first mention of the name "Ste. Agathe" was some decades earlier, when the Roman Catholic Church organized the Red River colonies between St. Norbert and the United States border into the Parish of Sainte-Agathe. As that parish grew and split into numerous more manageable parishes, the parish containing Pointe-à-Grouette was renamed the Parish of Sainte-Agathe by Archbishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché in 1873; the town adopted the name at some time after that date. A church, a school, and eventually a convent were built at the townsite.[7]
It is located in the floodplain of the Red River and, as such, has always been prone to flood damage, but none was so severe or as notable as that experienced during the 1997 Red River flood. The ring dike surrounding the town gave out in late April, causing the town to be inundated with over two metres of water.[8] The village has recovered; a new dike has been built and an interpretive centre has been created on the west side of the community.[9]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ste. Agathe had a population of 643 living in 225 of its 226 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 637. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]