The University of Manitoba’s Centre on Aging and the Manitoba Seniors and Healthy Aging Secretariat hosted the International Invited Symposium on Age-Friendly Rural and Remote Communities and Places. Collaborating partners included the International Federation on Ageing, the World Health Organization, the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Rural Development Institute at Brandon University. The symposium, held from October 15–17, 2012 in Winnipeg Manitoba, brought together 46 international delegates from 14 countries.