Rural Municipality of Dufferin

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

This article is about the municipality in the Canadian province of Manitoba. For the Saskatchewan municipality of the same name, see Rural Municipality of Dufferin No. 190.

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.

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