Miniota, Manitoba is an unincorporated community recognized as a

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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 ...

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. It is located northwest of Virden near the intersection of PTH 83 and PTH 24. The post office opened in 1885 on 36-13-27W. It was originally named Parkisimo and changed to its present name in 1900. It had two railways in its history: the

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and the

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(now

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). Both had rail points about one mile apart and there was a Miniota Station on the latter. Miniota has a K-8 school, a motel, and the biggest employer is the local co-op. There is also the Miniota Municipal Museum. The Rural Municipality of Miniota has its offices in the community.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Miniota had a population of 282 living in 120 of its 135 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 229. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

* ''Geographic Names of Manitoba'' (p. 176) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada Local urban districts in Manitoba Unincorporated communities in Westman Region {{Manitoba-geo-stub