Dufferin is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. The separately administered town of Carman lies near its centre.

The R.M. was named after Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava who was Governor General of Canada (1872–78). The now rural municipality was described as a new settlement in 1874.

Rural Municipality of Dufferin

Communities

Barnsley

Graysville

Homewood

Roseisle

Stephenfield

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Dufferin had a population of 2,543 living in 761 of its 806 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 2,435. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Rural Municipality of Dufferin

References

Manitoba Historical Society - Rural Municipality of Dufferin

Map of Dufferin R.M. at Statcan

External links

Carman/Dufferin Heritage Advisory Committee

Dufferin

Rural Municipality of Dufferin