Originally incorporated as a rural municipality on April 10, 1920,[1] it ceased to be one on January 1, 2015, as a result of its provincially-mandated amalgamation with the RM of Westbourne and the Town of Gladstone to form the Municipality of WestLake – Gladstone.

[citation needed] In 1901, the Census listed 142 residents (47.8%) as having Icelandic as their mother tongue.

[1] The RM's first Council was led by reeve George W. Langdon,[3] and included Magnus Peterson, Jas.

M. Birnie, John Arksey, Alf W. Law, George Hall, and Earl E. Davidson.

Based on data from "Langruth Along the Crocus Trail", published in 1984: According to the Canada 2001 Census: