Prairie View Municipality

Prairie View Municipality is a rural municipality (RM) in the Canadian province of Manitoba

Prairie View
Rural municipality
Prairie View Municipality
Location of the Prairie View Municipality in Manitoba
Coordinates: 50.460°N 100.988°W / 50.460; -100.988
Country	Canada
Province	Manitoba
Region	Westman
Incorporated (amalgamated)	January 1, 2015[1]
Area
• Total	1,694.69 km2 (654.32 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	2,161
• Density	1.275/km2 (3.303/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)

History

Further information: Rural Municipality of Birtle; Rural Municipality of Miniota; and Birtle, Manitoba

It was incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the RMs of Birtle and Miniota and the Town of Birtle.^[1] It was formed as a requirement of The Municipal Amalgamations Act, which required that municipalities with a population less than 1,000 amalgamate with one or more neighbouring municipalities by 2015.^[3] The Government of Manitoba initiated these amalgamations in order for municipalities to meet the 1997 minimum population requirement of 1,000 to incorporate a municipality.^[4] The reeve of the RM is Roger Wilson.

Communities

• Arrow River
• Beulah
• Birtle
• Crandall
• Foxwarren
• Isabella
• Miniota
• Quadra
• Reeder
• Solsgirth
• Uno

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Prairie View had a population of 2,161 living in 832 of its 970 total private dwellings, a change of 3.5% from its 2016 population of 2,088. With a land area of 1,694.69 km² (654.32 sq mi), it had a population density of 1.3/km² (3.3/sq mi) in 2021.^[2]