Eastman Region

Eastern Manitoba, or the Eastman Region (French: Région de Eastman), is an informal geographic region of the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is bounded on the north by the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg, on the east by the Manitoba-Ontario border, on the south by the Canada–US border, and on the west by the Red River. With a population of 128,855 as of the 2021 Canadian census, the Eastman Region is the second most populous region outside of the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region.

Eastman Region
Region
Map of the Eastman Region of Manitoba.
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba
Area
• Total	21,074.16 km2 (8,136.78 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	128,855
• Density	6.1/km2 (16/sq mi)

The city of Steinbach is the largest population centre in the region. The Trans-Canada Highway runs through the middle of the Eastman Region.

Major communities

Name of Population Centre	Population (2021)	Status
Beausejour	3,308	Town
Blumenort	1,738	LUD
Lac du Bonnet	1,064	Town
Lorette	3,208	LUD
Mitchell	3,136	LUD
Niverville	5,947	Town
Oakbank	5,041	LUD
Pinawa	1,331	Local government district
Powerview–Pine Falls	1,239	Town
St-Pierre-Jolys	1,170	Village
Ste. Anne	2,891	Town
Steinbach	17,806	City

Unorganized areas:

• Unorganized Division 1

Rural municipalities

Rural municipality	Unincorporated communities	Census division	Population (2021)
Alexander	Albert Beach Belair Bird River Great Falls Gull Lake Hillside Beach Lester Beach Pinawa Bay Poplar Bay St. Georges Silver Falls Stead Sunset Bay Traverse Bay White Mud Falls	No. 1	3,854
Brokenhead	Brokenhead Cloverleaf Cromwell Green Bay Hazelglen Ladywood Lydiatt St. Ouens Tyndall–Garson (LUD)	No. 12	5,414
De Salaberry	Carey Dufrost La Rochelle Otterburne St. Malo	No. 2	3,918
Emerson-Franklin	Arnaud Carlowrie Dominion City Fredensthal Green Ridge Ridgeville Rosa Roseau River Senkiw Tolstoi Woodmore	No. 2 (part in No. 3)	2,437
Hanover	Barkfield Blumenort (LUD) Bristol Friedensfeld Grunthal (LUD) Kleefeld Hochstadt Mitchell (LUD) New Bothwell Pansy Randolph Sarto Tourond	No. 2	17,216
La Broquerie	La Broquerie Marchand Zhoda	No. 2	6,725
Lac du Bonnet	Allegra Lee River Lowland McArthur Falls Milner Ridge Seddons Corner (part) Spring Well	No. 1	3,563
Piney Badger Carrick Menisino Middlebro Piney St. Labre Sandilands South Junction Sprague Vassar Wampum Woodridge	No. 1	1,843
Reynolds	Culver East Braintree Hadashville Hazel Hocter Indigo Larkhall McMunn Medika Molson Prawda Rennie Ste. Rita Spruce Siding	No. 1	1,344
Ritchot	Glenlea Grande Pointe Howden Île-des-Chênes St. Adolphe Ste. Agathe	No. 2	7,469
Springfield	Anola Cooks Creek Dugald Hazelridge Oakbank	No. 12	16,142
Ste. Anne	Giroux La Coulée Richer St. Raymond	No. 2	5,584
Stuartburn	Arbakka Caliento Gardenton Rofton Sirko Stuartburn Sundown Vita Zhoda (part)	No. 1	1,731
Taché	Dufresne Landmark Linden Lorette Rosewood Ross Ste-Geneviève	No. 2	11,916
Victoria Beach		No. 1	689
Whitemouth	Darwin Elma River Hills Seven Sisters Falls Whitemouth	No. 1	1,630

First Nations and Indian reserves

• Animakee Wa Zhing 37
• Buffalo Point
• Iskatewizaagegan 39

• Roseau River Anishinabe (Roseau Rapids 2A and Roseau River 2)
• Shoal Lake 37A
• Shoal Lake 39
• Shoal Lake 39A
• Shoal Lake 40

Points of interest

Other

• Great Falls Generating Station
• Underground Research Laboratory
• Whiteshell Laboratories

Parks, forestry, and landforms

• Agassiz Provincial Forest
• Atikaki Provincial Wilderness Park
• Belair Provincial Forest
• Birch Point Provincial Park
• Birds Hill Provincial Park
• Brightstone Sand Hills Provincial Forest
• Cat Hills Provincial Forest
• Elk Island Provincial Park
• Grand Beach Provincial Park
• Lee River Wildlife Management Area
• Manigotagan River Provincial Park
• Nopiming Provincial Park
• Pinawa Dam Provincial Park
• Poplar Bay Provincial Park
• Sandilands Provincial Forest
• St. Malo Provincial Park
• Wampum Provincial Forest
• Whitemouth Bog Ecological Reserve
• Whiteshell Provincial Park and Forest

Bodies of water

• Lake Winnipeg
• Lee River
• Manigotagan River
• Roseau River
• Seine River
• Winnipeg River

Transport

• Bird River (Lac du Bonnet) Airport
• Bird River Water Aerodrome
• Lac du Bonnet Airport
• Lac du Bonnet (North) Water Aerodrome
• Manitoba Highway 11
• Manitoba Provincial Road 304
• Silver Falls Airport
• Silver Falls Water Aerodrome
• Lancaster–Tolstoi Border Crossing
• Pinecreek–Piney Border Crossing
• Roseau–South Junction Border Crossing
• Warroad–Sprague Border Crossing