Marchand, Manitoba

Marchand
Village
Marchand Location of Marchand in Manitoba
Coordinates: 49°26′00″N 96°23′00″W / 49.43333°N 96.38333°W / 49.43333; -96.38333Coordinates: 49°26′00″N 96°23′00″W / 49.43333°N 96.38333°W / 49.43333; -96.38333
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba

Marchand is a village located in the Rural Municipality of La Broquerie in Manitoba, southeast of Winnipeg and about ten kilometres southeast of the city of La Broquerie. It is a Franco-Manitoban community.

The village of Marchand is the front door to access the Marchand Provincial Park and the Sandilands Provincial Forest.

In 1929, writer Gabrielle Roy got her first teaching position at the local school in Marchand.

During an international competition on the quality of drinking water held in February 2013, the Canadian company "Berkeley Springs International Water" won the gold medal for the purity of its water collected in the territory of the village of Marchand, considered by the jury as the best in the world.^[1]

References

↑ "Manitoba town honoured for best water in world". Retrieved 23 July 2015.

Division 2, Manitoba (Steinbach Area)

Cities	Steinbach

Towns	Niverville Ste. Anne

Villages	St-Pierre-Jolys

Rural municipalities	De Salaberry Emerson–Franklin (part) Franklin Hanover La Broquerie Ritchot Ste. Anne Taché

First Nations	Roseau River Anishinabe

Indian reserves	Roseau Rapids 2A Roseau River 2

Unincorporated communities	Blumenort Dominion City Friedensfeld Grande Pointe Grunthal Howden Île-des-Chênes Kleefeld La Broquerie La Coulée Landmark La Rochelle Lorette Marchand Mitchell New Bothwell Otterburne Randolph Richer St. Adolphe Ste. Agathe St. Malo Tolstoi Zhoda (part)

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

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