Tourist attractions include Grunthal's Annual Fairdays held on the third weekend in August; it features a parade and a rodeo, among other activities. Schools include the K to Grade 4 South Oaks School and the Grades 5 to 12 Green Valley School, all part of the Hanover School Division. Grunthal includes a variety of Mennonite churches, and businesses. Its economy is primarily agrarian-based. Grunthal is also host to one of the best motocross tracks in Manitoba, in past years the track hosted numerous Canadian Motocross National events with the country's top riders coming to race. Grunthal is home to the Grunthal Red Wings, hockey teams ranging from squirts to senior.
Grunthal was one of dozens of village of what was known as the East Reserve, an area set aside by the Government of Canada for Mennonite settlement, and it is now populated with their descendants, as well as people of Ukrainian and German descent and other ethnicities. The name Grünthal means 'Green Valley' in German, and is called Grientol, (/ˈ jrintol/), in Plautdietsch, with the same meaning.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Grunthal had a population of 1,782 living in 618 of its 636 total private dwellings, a change of 6.1% from its 2016 population of 1,680. With a land area of 2.69 km2 (1.04 sq mi), it had a population density of 662.5/km2 (1,715.7/sq mi) in 2021.[5]