1877 — Born inVarennes, Quebec, Louis Malo is the first pioneer to settle in St. Malo.[4][5][6][7][8]
1878 — Opening of the Pembina Branch rail line fromSt. Boniface toDominion City through nearby Dufrost station. The new rail route resulted in the phasing-out of the generations-oldCrow Wing ox trail through St. Malo; Dufrost began part of St. Malo parish.[9]
1884 — Surveying of the St. Malo Settlement of lots along theRat River (a tributary of theRed River) from the southern edge of the village of St. Malo toLa Rochelle.[4][10]
1892 — Opening of register for the St. Malo parish of the Manitobanarchdiocese of St. Boniface.[11][12] St. Malo Post Office established 1 February 1892.[13]
1977 - On July 18, a violent F4 tornado ripped through the community, killing three and destroying several houses. Asphalt was peeled off of highway roads.
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, St. Malo had a population of 1,323 living in 492 of its 563 total private dwellings, a change of7.8% from its 2016 population of 1,227. With a land area of 6.91 km2 (2.67 sq mi), it had a population density of191.5/km2 (495.9/sq mi) in 2021.[16]
St. Malo is a shopping and services centre for the surrounding rural area; it is also recognized for its tourist attractions andfarming.
Popular activities in St. Malo during the winter months include snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, hockey, as well as ice-fishing and car racing on the lake. In February 2008, the Friends of the Park ("Les Amis du Parc") organized its first annual Festival of Friends ("Festival des Amis").
École Saint-Malo School is the community's elementary and middle school and is part of the Red River Valley School Division. The school offers bothFrench Immersion and English programs.
^Louis Malo is a descendant of Jean Hayet dit Saint-Malo (~1639Saint-Malo, Brittany - 1721Varennes, New France). We can thus suppose that the place-name St. Malo in Manitoba derives from the patronymic evolution which ensues from, on one hand, the surname 'Hayet dit Saint-Malo', whose 1st ancestor to settle in ancient Quebec was a native of Saint-Malo, the port city in Brittany, became the 6th generation descendant Louis Malo, and, on the other hand, the place where this pioneer Louis Malo settled in Manitoba to re-surface, so to speak, by multiple association, as the place-name St. Malo. Brittany's Saint-Malo originally derives for theWelshmedievalmonkMalo (or Maclou), who was bishop of Saint-Malo and one ofBrittany's seven founding saints.
Rural Municipality of De Salaberry, Manitoba, Canada
Port city of Saint-Malo, Brittany, France
