The Rural Municipality of Miniota 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 Birtle and the Town 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 requi ...

. The former RM of Miniota is located on the Assiniboine River and encompassed the separately administered

Birdtail Sioux First Nation Birdtail Sioux First Nation or Chan Kagha Otina Dakhóta Oyáte (also spelt ''Caƞ Kaġa Dakhóta Oyáte'', 'People of the Log Houses') are a Dakota First Nation located approximately 50 km north of Virden, Manitoba. The First Nation has a p ...

. The 2011 Canadian census, the last one performed while the RM of Miniota existed, showed a population of 871, the lowest recorded in its history; the peak population had been 2,593 in the 1921 Canadian census. The declining population directly resulted in the RM of Miniota 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

* Arrow River * Beulah * Crandall *

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* Miniota * Quadra * Reeder * Uno

References

External links

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