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Manitoba Communities: Birtle (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)
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This municipality is believed to be named for a contraction of the Birdtail Creek that flows through it.
Present Status
Municipality of Prairie View (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Birtle (22 December 1883)
Amalgamated with Birtle and Miniota (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Constituent Communities
Land Area (square km)
849.13
Population
Year
Total
1891
846
1896
817
1901
1166
1911
1735
1921
1980
1931
2031
1941
1795
1951
1832
1956
1727
1961
1569
1966
1415
1971
1363
1976
1212
1981
1067
1986
1015
1991
866
1996
862
2001
749
2006
666
2011
632
Reeves
Term
Reeve
1884-1886
James S. Crerar
1886-1888
John Dunlop
1889-1890
William Watt
1891-1894
Fred W. Huehnichen
1895
John Dunlop
1896-1900
Fred W. Huehnichen
1901-1902
George Porter
1903
Thomas Bowen
1904-1907
Fred W. Huehnichen
1908-1910
Edward Graham
1911-1927
Andrew Doig
1928
A. A. Saunders
1929-1935
Andrew Doig
1936-1965
Alfred Oliver Webb (1887-1973)
1966-1970
Richard P. Butler
1971-1986
J. Cromar Ashcroft
1986-1998
Jack F. Stewart (?-2010)
1999-2014
Roger Wilson
2015
See Prairie View
Memorable Manitobans
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Historic Sites
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History Books
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Maps
Sources
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
A View of the Birdtail: A History of the Municipality of Birtle, the Town of Birtle, and the Villages of Foxwarren and Solsgirth 1878-1974. History Committee of the Municipality of Birtle, 1974. Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.B57.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 2 May 2022
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