Rural Municipality of St. François Xavier

St. Francois Xavier, originally Grantown, is a rural community on the Assiniboine River, west of Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba. 1824 founded Cuthbert Grant with some other Métis families, the new settlement Grantown in the area known as White Horse Plain. A few years after the founding of the city was named after the patron saint of the local church, Francisco de Xavier. 1880, the province of Manitoba was founded and established in their St. François Xavier as a community. 2006 inhabitants lived there in 1087.