Rural Municipality of Sifton


The Rural Municipality of Sifton is a rural municipality in the southwest portion of the Canadian province of Manitoba.

History

The RM was incorporated in 1883. The former Town of Oak Lake, located within Sifton, annexed by the RM on January 1, 2015 as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act, which required municipalities with a population less than 1,000 to amalgamate with neighbouring municipalities. The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.
The municipality's population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 1,256.

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