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This municipality is believed to be named for a contraction of the Birdtail Creek on which it is located.
Present Status
Municipality of Prairie View (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Town of Birtle (29 December 1883)
Amalgamated with Birtle and Miniota (1 January 2015)Land Area (square km)
14.25
Year
Total
1891
338
1901
466
1906
422
1911
437
1916
512
1921
560
1926
571
1931
645
1936
789
1941
646
1946
677
1951
741
1956
806
1961
846
1966
860
1971
882
1976
821
1981
887
1986
850
1991
802
1996
720
2001
715
2006
662
2011
664
Term
Mayor
1884-1890
John Sanderson Crawford (1837-1916)
1891
Alfred Morton
1892-1897
John Sanderson Crawford (1837-1916)
1898-1899
Charles A. Flower
1900
John Walley
1901-1903
Charles A. Flower
1904-1907
John Clemens
1908
Dr. Richard W. Wheeler
1909-1920
Edmund James Wilson (1858-1943)
1921-1925
Henry A. Manwaring
1926-1927
John William Pratt (1894-1973)
1928-1932
Edmund James Wilson (1858-1943)
1933-1939
Francis Henry “Frank” Manwaring (1885-1960)
1940-1943
Rollie Lee Miles (1889-1976)
1944
Alfred O. Webb
1945
C. L. Dutton
1946-1948
Francis Henry “Frank” Manwaring (1885-1960)
1949-1951
John William Pratt (1894-1973)
1952-1953
Clarence Eric Tibbatts (1904-?)
1954-1959
John William Pratt (1894-1973)
1960-1961
Rollie Lee Miles (1889-1976)
1962-1965
D. George Hart
1966-1969
M. K. Clubley
1970-1983
Raymond E. Howard (1935-1986)
1984-1989
Clifford Albert Asselstine (1929-2015)
1990-1995
1995-2010
2011-2014
Dwight Stewart
2015
See Prairie View
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Birtle.
Go here for a list of history books for Birtle.
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: 1 June 2019
