Miry Creek No. 229 is a rural municipality

Rural municipality

A rural municipality, often abbreviated RM, is a form of municipality in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, perhaps best comparable to counties or townships in the western United States...

 in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 encompassing 1,220.38 square kilometers in area. The rural municipality maintains its office in Abbey, Saskatchewan

Abbey, Saskatchewan

-Geography:Abbey is located south of the South Saskatchewan River and north of The Great Sand Hills.-Area statistics:*Lat 50° 44' 00" N*Long 108° 45' 00" W...

 . The communities of Shackleton

Shackleton, Saskatchewan

Shackleton is a community in Saskatchewan....

, Abbey

Abbey, Saskatchewan

-Geography:Abbey is located south of the South Saskatchewan River and north of The Great Sand Hills.-Area statistics:*Lat 50° 44' 00" N*Long 108° 45' 00" W...

, Lancer

Lancer, Saskatchewan

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, the Abbey Colony, and the Wheatland Colony are within the rural municipality. The rural municipality in conjunction with the provincial government is in charge of maintenance of highways in its area. The first homestead occurred in 1907 with the rural municipality established in 1913 with that same year the Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...

 expanding west into the municipality from Cabri

Cabri, Saskatchewan

The town of Cabri is situated in Southwest Saskatchewan, directly north of Gull Lake and north-west of Swift Current. The word "Cabri", a French word used by the French voyageurs at the time of the fur trade, means "Antelope"...

. The economy of the municipality is dominated by agriculture and more recently natural gas.

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