Land for sale in The Pas area, Manitoba
1 land and acreage listing in The Pas area. Median asking price $25,000.
Listed this week in The Pas area
| Listing | Price | Acres | Per acre | Water | Value |
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| Land The Pas |
$25,000 | Not stated | – |
All listings in The Pas area
| Listing | Price | Acres | Per acre | Water | Value |
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| Land The Pas |
$25,000 | Not stated | – |
About The Pas area
The area
This page groups listings nearest The Pas (about 5,600 people in 2021), on the south bank of the Saskatchewan River near the Saskatchewan border. The RM of Kelsey (about 2,200) surrounds it in separate pieces: the Carrot River Valley farmland to the west, Ralls Island to the east, and boreal lake country to the north around Wanless and Cranberry Portage. Opaskwayak Cree Nation sits across the river; its main reserve, 21E, had about 2,200 residents. Clearwater Lake, Rocky Lake and Grass River provincial parks lie between these pieces.
History
Traces of people at the meeting of the Pasquia and Saskatchewan rivers go back about 7,000 years, and the Cree band here, now Opaskwayak Cree Nation, signed Treaty 5 on September 7, 1876. In 1906 the band was moved to the north bank, giving up 500 acres for the townsite. The railway arrived in 1908, the town incorporated in 1912 and the Hudson Bay Railway north to Churchill was finished in 1929. Farms spread west of town from the 1920s, and veterans settled the Pasquia Land Settlement after 1945.
Services and access
St. Anthony's General Hospital in The Pas serves the Northern Health Region, with an emergency department and CT scanning. Highway 10 runs from the Carrot River Valley through town to Cranberry Portage; PR 283 and 282 cross the valley and PR 285 reaches Ralls Island. Calm Air flies from The Pas Airport to Winnipeg, and the town also has passenger rail. Health care, education and government are major employers; the Canadian Kraft Paper mill employs about 300.
Land and climate
The Carrot River Valley and Ralls Island are Manitoba's most northerly farm districts, with more than 100,000 acres farmed in the valley. Prime farmland (Classes 1 to 3) covers over a third of the planning district, all of it near The Pas. The rest is boreal forest, bog, marsh and lakes. Water and wastewater service includes piped systems and holding tanks.
Before you buy
The Town of The Pas and the RM of Kelsey form the Kelsey Planning District, in effect since 2017, whose development plan guides zoning. The RM issues development permits; building permits go through the province's Office of the Fire Commissioner, and drainage works need provincial approval. The province approves subdivisions. The plan keeps farmland in parcels of generally 80 acres and bars permanent buildings on flood-prone land unless foundations sit 0.6 m above the 200-year flood. Land south of the Carrot River is low, and Ralls Island flooded in 1948 and 1953; 73 km of dikes now protect over 57,000 hectares of the valley and Pasquia polder. Buyers who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents need a Manitoba Farm Industry Board exemption to hold more than 40 acres of farmland.
Sources
- Statistics Canada, 2021 Census population and dwelling counts (table 98-10-0002)
- Town of The Pas, Kelsey Planning District and Kelsey Planning District development plan (2020)
- RM of Kelsey, municipal services and development permit application
- Manitoba Historical Society, Historical tour of The Pas
- The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Pas and Opaskwayak Cree Nation
- Province of Manitoba, CT wait times by site and mobile MRI for the north (2025)
- Calm Air, September 2026 flight schedule
- Province of Manitoba, Carrot-Saskatchewan River watershed surface water report
- Province of Manitoba, Flood Bulletin #18 (2011)
- Province of Manitoba, subdivision approving authority and foreign ownership of farm land
Written by AcreScout from the sources listed; facts checked October 2, 2026. Rules change: confirm anything that matters with the municipality.