rural municipality

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of rural municipality

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

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rural municipality

Mingma Sherpa, chairperson of the Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, said the change was something the Sherpa community had lobbied for for many years now.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

"Our mountains have begun to stink," Mingma Sherpa, chairman of Pasang Lhamu rural municipality, told the BBC.

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2024

In my second week there, I traveled to Orito, another rural municipality just 100 miles or so from where the Noscues live, to observe these efforts up close.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

The small rural municipality of Áporo, like many other such settlements across Mexico, is linked to American towns and cities far away by the stitching of northbound migration and the return flow of money.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2020

Now it happened that the rural municipality required a thousand ounces of strychnine, put up in half-ounce bottles, for gopher poison.

From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead