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	Ellice, Miniota, Rossburn, Shoal Lake, Silver Creek
Constituent Communities	Birtle, Foxwarren, Solsgirth, Toddburn
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