Municipality of Harrison Park

The Municipality of Harrison Park is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba that incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RMs of Harrison and Park.^[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.^[3] 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.^[4]

Harrison Park
Rural municipality
Municipality of Harrison Park
Location of the RM of Harrison Park in Manitoba
Coordinates: 50.464°N 100.077°W / 50.464; -100.077
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba
Region	Westman
Incorporated (amalgamated)	January 1, 2015[1]
Area
• Total	964.55 km2 (372.41 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	1,852
• Density	1.9/km2 (5.0/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Website	harrisonpark.ca

Harrison Park is located south of Riding Mountain National Park.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Harrison Park had a population of 1,852 living in 910 of its 1,769 total private dwellings, a change of 14.5% from its 2016 population of 1,617. With a land area of 964.55 km² (372.41 sq mi), it had a population density of 1.9/km² (5.0/sq mi) in 2021.^[5]