The Village of Grand Manan is a small island community located in the Bay of Fundy, and is surrounded by several smaller islands. The island is twenty-four kilometres long, and eleven kilometres wide. The Village was amalgamated on May 8, 1995; it is comprised of the former Villages of North Head, Grand Harbour and Seal Cove, and two former local service districts Castalia and Woodwards Cove. The population of the Village of Grand Manan according to the last census in 2006 was a year-round population of two thousand four hundred and sixty.