rural municipality

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noun

any lightly settled area in Canada lacking a local elected government and administered directly by a provincial government.

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Origin of rural municipality

First recorded in 1860–65

These are young fathers, rural farmers, usually growing banana or coffee or subsistence crops.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
For the first time in American history, rural America has been losing population.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She is also head of the Sabancı Foundation, which conducts female-empowerment programs for women in rural Turkey.
The Women Battling an Islamist Strongman|Christina Asquith|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Rural churches were deserted, and the connection between the land and the bounty of harvests was gone.
How Dickens and Scrooge Saved Christmas|Clive Irving|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“In almost all rural areas of Switzerland, it is customary to eat cats and dogs,” she says.
Will the Swiss Quit Cooking their Kittens and Puppies?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|November 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There are many more good dwellings on this plain than in the rural portion of Lower Italy.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The hospitals in the capital were crowded with wounded soldiers, brought in at great risk from the rural districts.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Here again we have the landscape of Lorraine and the eternal and infinitely varied theme of rural labour.
Bastien Lepage|Fr. Crastre
This rule however does not apply to travelers walking along a rural highway.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
The action of the municipality, or of the state or province, or of the central government itself may be called into play.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock