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Rural Municipality of Dauphin

rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ1658912 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dauphin is a rural municipality in the Parkland Region of Manitoba, Canada. The municipality surrounds the separately administered city of Dauphin, and lies just north of Riding Mountain National Park, part of which extends into the RM.

Communities

Keld

North Junction

Paulson

Sifton

Trembowla

Valley River

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Dauphin had a population of 2,136 living in 896 of its 1,023 total private dwellings, a change of −7% from its 2016 population of 2,298. With a land area of 1,512.79 km2 (584.09 sq mi), it had a population density of 1.4/km2 (3.7/sq mi) in 2021.

Editorial summary

“Rural Municipality of Dauphin” enters the record as rural municipality in Manitoba, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rural, Municipality and Dauphin can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rural, Municipality and Dauphin.
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“Rural Municipality of Dauphin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rural, Municipality and Dauphin provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1658912. VIAF identifies the subject as 141828968. Authority coordinates are 51.196, -100.062. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rural Municipality of Dauphin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.