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A couple of explanations have been offered for the name of this community, established around 1889 as a point on the Canadian Pacific Railway. One is that it commemorates the English estate of William Henry Barneby (1843-1914) who visited his son in Manitoba in the early 1880s and subsequently wrote Life and Labour in the Far, Far West (1884). Another story is that it concatenates Fox, the name of an early settler in this area, and Warren, a term for an animal’s den.
Present Status
Municipality of Prairie View (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Village of Foxwarren (March 1912, dissolved circa 1967)
Rural Municipality of BirtleLand Area (square km)
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Year
Total
1916
207
1921
277
1926
265
1931
268
1936
249
1941
219
1946
268
1951
271
1956
270
1961
272
1966
239
Term
Mayor
1912-1916
A. Laycock
1917-1918
Edward Graham (1849-1940)
1919-1920
John Henry Hall (1852-1940)
1921-1922
John George Louis LeMottee Armit (1875-1955)
1923-1926
Arnold Lewarton (1877-1962)
1927-1928
Edward Graham (1849-1940)
1929-1937
Walter Leo Leavens (?-1975)
1938-1939
William Robert Tett (1875-1957)
1940-1943
Walter Leo Leavens (?-1975)
1944-1945
William Robert Tett (1875-1957)
1946-1947
James Edward “Ted” Morris
1948-1952
James Marshall McCrindle (1879-1966)
1953-1954
Samuel Jackson Stitt (1895-1966)
1955
John Young
1956-1963
James Low (1894-1966)
1964-1966
N. B. Bergsteinson
1967
R. H. Gilmour
Term
Secretary-Treasurers
1912-1913
W. J. Rorke
1913-1914
J. W. McCrindle
1914-1938
Percy Highfield
1939-1955
John George Louis LeMottee Armit (1875-1955)
1955-1961
W. F. Hinkel
1962-1965
Gowan B. Hay
1965-1967
Sophia Smith
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“Three killed in collision,” Birtle Eye Witness, 3 January 1967, page 2.
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.
The Fox’s Tale: The History of Foxwarren and the Consolidated School District #525 by Foxwarren and District History Book Committee, edited by Ruth McNarry Meldrum, 1989.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 October 2021
