Rural Municipality of Rosser

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Rosser
Rural municipality
Rural Municipality of Rosser
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Dorsey Converter Station near Rosser, Manitoba, August 2005
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Location of the RM of Rosser in Manitoba
Coordinates: 49°59′24″N97°27′33″W / 49.99000°N 97.45917°W / 49.99000; -97.45917
Country Canada
Province Manitoba
Region Winnipeg Metro
Incorporated1893;131 years ago (1893)
SeatRosser, Manitoba
Government
 •  Reeve Ken Mulligan
 •  MLA Trevor King (Lakeside)
 • MP James Bezan (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman)
Area
 • Rural municipality441.56 km2 (170.49 sq mi)
 • Metro
5,306.79 km2 (2,048.96 sq mi)
Elevation
[1]
241 m (791 ft)
Population
 (2016) [2]
 • Rural municipality1,372
 • Density3.1/km2 (8.0/sq mi)
 •  Metro
778,489
Time zone UTC−6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC−5 (CDT)
Postal Code
R0H 1E0
Area codes 204, 431
Website rmofrosser.com

Rosser is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba, lying adjacent to the northwest side of Winnipeg and part of the Winnipeg Metro Region. Its population as of the 2016 Census was 1,372. [2]

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It is situated along Provincial Trunk Highway 6, and Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway. [3] CentrePort Canada lies primarily in the eastern part of the RM, inside the Perimeter Highway. A small portion of Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport also lies within the RM of Rosser.

Water services are provided by the Cartier Regional Water Cooperative. The CentrePort distribution line serves CentrePort development and the RM of Rosser. [4] Water sourced from the Assiniboine River is treated at Headingley before being sent out through distribution channels. [4] Near the community of Rosser is the Dorsey Converter Station and the large static inverter plant for the Nelson River Bipole HVDC power transmission project.

Communities

The following communities lie within the RM: [3] [5]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rosser had a population of 1,270 living in 424 of its 448 total private dwellings, a change of

As of 2004, a handful of elderly Old Swedish (gammalsvenska) speakers remain. They are the descendants of ethnically Swedish people who moved to Manitoba from Gammalsvenskby, Ukraine, in the early 1900s. [7] Old Swedish derives from the Estonian Swedish dialect of the late 1700s as spoken on the island of Dagö (Hiiumaa). While rooted in Swedish, the dialect shows influence and borrowings from Estonian, German, Russian, and Ukrainian.

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References

  1. ↑ "Elevation at Rosser". earthtools.org.
  2. 1 2 "2016 Census Profile - RM of Rosser". statcan.gc.ca. November 29, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Residents - Location / Map - Rural Municipality of Rosser, Manitoba". www.rmofrosser.com. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Cartier Regional Water Cooperative - Public Water System 2018 Annual Report" (PDF). rmofrosser.com. March 28, 2019. pp. 3, 8. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Residents - RM of Rosser Profile - Rural Municipality of Rosser, Manitoba". www.rmofrosser.com. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Manitoba". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  7. ↑ Rudling, Per Anders (2005). "Ukrainian Swedes in Canada: Gammalsvenskby in the Swedish-Canadian Press 1929-1931". Scandiavian–Canadian Studies/Études scandinaves au Canada. 15: 62–91.
  8. ↑ Winnipeg, City of. "Little Mountain Park - Rentals - Parks and Open Space - Public Works - City of Winnipeg". www.winnipeg.ca. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Recreation - Prairie Dog Central - Rural Municipality of Rosser, Manitoba". www.rmofrosser.com. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
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