Rural Municipality of Thompson

Thompson is a rural municipality (RM) in the Pembina Valley Region of Manitoba, Canada. It had a population of 1,259 according to the Canada 2006 Census.

The RM was incorporated on 1 November 1908. It took its name from an early settler and its first postmaster, William Thompson. Thompson homesteaded on 5-5-6W in about 1874 and his home was central to the early community. The area was known locally as Thompsonville at that time.

Communities

 * Deerwood
 * Miami - The main village in Thompson.
 * Rosebank

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Thompson had a population of 1,518 living in 434 of its 471 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 1,422. With a land area of 531.24 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.