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About
The Municipality of Lorne is a former rural municipality in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was originally incorporated as a rural municipality on February 14, 1880. It was named for the Duke of Argyle (Marquis of Lorne born in 1845 and died in 1914) who was Queen Victoria’s son-in-law and was also the Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. It ceased to exist as such an entity on January 1, 2015 as a consequence of the provincially mandated amalgamation of the Rural Municipality of Lorne with the Village of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes and the Village of Somerset to then form the Municipality of Lorne.
The Municipality of Lorne was formed as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act, which required that municipalities with a population of fewer than 1,000 residents amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015. The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order to have municipalities meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 if any entity wished to incorporate as a municipality.
This former Rural Municipality of Lorne, which is now known as the newly fused Municipality of Lorne, is located in the south central part of Manitoba in the agricultural zone of Canada. Lorne is bordered on the east by the Pembina Hills, on the north and west by the Tiger Hills, and on the south by the Pembina Valley.
The Municipality of Lorne is a picturesque region of gentle, rolling hills, and is a patchwork of some of the most fertile fields in Manitoba. The municipal administrative office is located at 307 on 3rd Street in Somerset, Manitoba.
The Swan Lake First Nation reserve borders the Municipality of Lorne along a portion of its southern side.
Census Profile
Population (2021): 2,904 down from the 3,041 in 2016 (thus a decrease of -4.5%)
Population density: 3.1 persons per square kilometer (or 8.1 per square mile)
Land Area (km2): 923.03 square kilometers (or 356.38 square miles)
Number of dwellings: 1,199
Individual Income (2020): $58,200
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