Municipality of Boissevain – Morton

Boissevain – Morton
Rural municipality
Municipality of Boissevain – Morton
Boissevain – Morton Location of Boissevain – Morton in Manitoba
Coordinates: 49°10′39″N 100°5′43″W / 49.17750°N 100.09528°W / 49.17750; -100.09528Coordinates: 49°10′39″N 100°5′43″W / 49.17750°N 100.09528°W / 49.17750; -100.09528
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba
Incorporated (amalgamated)	January 1, 2015^[1]
Time zone	CST (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)

The Municipality of Boissevain – Morton is a rural municipality (RM) in the Westman Region of the Canadian province of Manitoba that incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RM of Morton and the Town of Boissevain.^[1] It was formed as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act, which required that municipalities with a population less than 1,000 amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015.^[2] 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.^[3]

References

1 2 "The Municipal Amalgamations Act (C.C.S.M. c. M235): Town of Boissevain and Rural Municipality of Morton Amalgamation Regulation" (PDF). Government of Manitoba. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
↑ "The Municipal Amalgamations Act (C.C.S.M. c. M235)". Government of Manitoba. October 2, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
↑ "Speech from the Throne: At the Opening of the Second Session of the 40th Legislature of the Province of Manitoba". Government of Manitoba. November 19, 2012. Retrieved October 4, 2014.

Division 5, Manitoba (Southwest Manitoba)

Towns	Melita

Rural municipalities	Albert Arthur Brenda Brenda–Waskada Boissevain–Morton Cameron Deloraine–Winchester Edward Grassland Killarney–Turtle Mountain Morton Prairie Lakes Riverside Strathcona Turtle Mountain Two Borders Whitewater Winchester

Unincorporated communities	Bede Bernice Boissevain Broomhill Deloraine Elgin Elva Grande-Clairière Hartney Lauder Lena Killarney Margaret Minto Napinka Ninette Pierson Tilston Waskada

See also: Municipalities in Manitoba Census divisions of Manitoba 2015 municipal amalgamations

Subdivisions of Manitoba

Subdivisions	Regions Census divisions Municipalities Communities Indian reserves Population centres Designated places

Cities	Brandon Dauphin Flin Flon Morden Portage la Prairie Selkirk Steinbach Thompson Winkler Winnipeg

Towns	Altona Arborg Beausejour Carberry Carman Churchill Gillam Grand Rapids Lac du Bonnet Leaf Rapids Lynn Lake Melita Minnedosa Morris Neepawa Niverville The Pas Powerview-Pine Falls Snow Lake Ste. Anne Swan River Teulon Virden Winnipeg Beach Former towns: Birtle Boissevain Deloraine Emerson Erickson Gilbert Plains Gladstone Grandview Gretna Hamiota Hartney MacGregor Manitou Minitonas Oak Lake Pilot Mound Plum Coulee Rapid City Rivers Roblin Rossburn Russell Souris Sainte Rose du Lac Treherne

Villages	Dunnottar St-Pierre-Jolys Former villages: Benito Binscarth Bowsman Cartwright Crystal City Elkhorn Ethelbert Glenboro McCreary Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Riverton Somerset St. Claude St. Lazare Waskada Wawanesa Winnipegosis

Rural municipalities	Alexander Alonsa Argyle Armstrong Bifrost – Riverton Boissevain – Morton Brenda – Waskada Brokenhead Cartier Cartwright – Roblin Clanwilliam – Erickson Coldwell Cornwallis Dauphin De Salaberry Deloraine – Winchester Dufferin East St. Paul Ellice – Archie Elton Emerson – Franklin Ethelbert Fisher Gilbert Plains Gimli Glenboro – South Cypress Glenella – Lansdowne Grahamdale Grandview Grassland Grey Hamiota Hanover Harrison Park Headingley Hillsburg – Roblin – Shell River Kelsey Killarney-Turtle Mountain La Broquerie Lac du Bonnet Lakeshore Lorne Louise Macdonald McCreary Minitonas – Bowsman Minto – Odanah Montcalm Morris Mossey River Mountain Norfolk Treherne North Cypress – Langford North Norfolk Oakland – Wawanesa Oakview Pembina Piney Pipestone Portage la Prairie Prairie Lakes Prairie View Reynolds Rhineland Riding Mountain West Ritchot Riverdale Rockwood Roland Rosedale Rossburn Rosser Russell – Binscarth Sifton Souris – Glenwood Springfield St. Andrews St. Clements St. François Xavier St. Laurent Ste. Rose Stanley Ste. Anne Stuartburn Swan Valley West Taché Thompson Two Borders Victoria Victoria Beach Wallace – Woodworth West Interlake West St. Paul WestLake – Gladstone Whitehead Whitemouth Woodlands Yellowhead Former rural municipalities: Albert Archie Arthur Bifrost Birtle Blanshard Brenda Cameron Clanwilliam Daly Edward Ellice Eriksdale Ethelbert Franklin Gilbert Plains Glenella Glenwood Grandview Hamiota Harrison Hillsburg Lakeview Langford Lansdowne Lawrence Lorne Louise McCreary Miniota Minitonas Minto Morton North Cypress North Norfolk Oakland Ochre River Odanah Park Pembina Rhineland Riverside Roblin Rossburn Russell Saskatchewan Shell River Shellmouth-Boulton Shoal Lake Siglunes Silver Creek South Cypress South Norfolk Ste. Rose Strathclair Strathcona Swan River Wallace Westbourne Whitewater Winchester Woodworth

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