The Rural Municipality of Birtle is a former

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(RM) in the

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. It was originally incorporated as a rural municipality on December 22, 1883. It ceased on January 1, 2015, as a result of its provincially mandated

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with the RM of Miniota and the Town of Birtle (an enclave of the RM of Birtle) to form the

Prairie View Municipality Prairie View Municipality is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba History It was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RMs of Birtle and Miniota and the Town of Birtle. It was formed as a requ ...

. The 2011 Canadian census, the last one performed while the RM of Birtle existed, showed a population of 632, the lowest recorded in its history; the peak population had been 2,031 in the

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. The declining population directly resulted in the RM of Birtle ceasing as an RM, as the 2015 amalgamation formed 47 new administrative units by merging the 107 Manitoba rural municipalities that had populations lower than 1,000 each.

Communities

* Foxwarren * Solsgirth

References

External links

* as archived January 2016
2009 Map of Birtle R.M.
at Statistics Canada as archived January 2013 Birtle Populated places disestablished in 2015 2015 disestablishments in Manitoba {{Manitoba-geo-stub