The Rural Municipality of Ellice – Archie () is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba.
History
The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 2015, via the amalgamation of the RMs of Archie and Ellice and the Village of St. Lazare. 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. 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.
Communities
Manson
McAuley
St. Lazare
Willen
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Ellice-Archie had a population of 831 living in 351 of its 392 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 887. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.