St. Malo, Manitoba Explained

St. Malo
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Canada
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Manitoba
Subdivision Type2:RM
Subdivision Name2:De Salaberry
Government Type:Local urban district (L.U.D.)
Established Title:Established
Established Date:1877
Area Total Km2:7.34
Population As Of:2016
Population Total:1,227
Population Density Km2:167
Timezone:CST
Utc Offset:-6
Timezone Dst:CDT
Utc Offset Dst:-5
Elevation Footnotes:.(St Malo & Bourgeois)
Elevation M:252
Postal Code:ROA 1T0
Area Code:204

St. Malo is a local urban district located in the Rural Municipality of De Salaberry, approximately 70 km south of The Forks, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Most of the community's residents are bilingual francophone of Métis or Québécois heritage.

Early history

Chronology of the early settlement of St. Malo:

Geography

St. Malo lies in the eastern edge of the remarkably flat Red River flood plain, which was once the lake shore of Lake Agassiz at the transition between southeastern Manitoba's upland woodlands to the east and the flat prairie grasslands to the west.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, St. Malo had a population of 1,323 living in 492 of its 563 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 1,227. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]

Amenities

St. Malo is a shopping and services centre for the surrounding rural area; it is also recognized for its tourist attractions and farming.

Popular activities in St. Malo during the winter months include snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, hockey, as well as ice-fishing and car racing on the lake. In February 2008, the Friends of the Park ("Les Amis du Parc") organized its first annual Festival of Friends ("Festival des Amis").

École Saint-Malo School is the community's elementary and middle school and is part of the Red River Valley School Division. The school offers both French Immersion and English programs.

Notable people

See also

Friendship communities

Bibliography

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Notes and References

  1. Louis Malo is a descendant of Jean Hayet dit Saint-Malo (~1639 Saint-Malo, Brittany - 1721 Varennes, New France). We can thus suppose that the place-name St. Malo in Manitoba derives from the patronymic evolution which ensues from, on one hand, the surname 'Hayet dit Saint-Malo', whose 1st ancestor to settle in ancient Quebec was a native of Saint-Malo, the port city in Brittany, became the 6th generation descendant Louis Malo, and, on the other hand, the place where this pioneer Louis Malo settled in Manitoba to re-surface, so to speak, by multiple association, as the place-name St. Malo. Brittany's Saint-Malo originally derives for the Welsh medieval monk Malo (or Maclou), who was bishop of Saint-Malo and one of Brittany's seven founding saints.
  2. See Manitoba Land Titles Office abstract for lot 90.
  3. Web site: Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places . . February 9, 2022 . Sep 3, 2022.

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