[4] The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.

[5][2] The most prominent geographical feature in the RM is Oak Lake.

The Assiniboine River runs near the northern border of the RM and at the extreme south-east corner of the RM is the Souris River.

[3] In 2016, the Nature Conservancy of Canada bought 127 acres of land on the Oak Lake Sand Hills,[6] east of Oak Lake.

The property is a mixture of wetlands and rolling sandy hills and contains eleven uncommon and at-risk species.