Rural Municipality of Lakeview


The Rural Municipality of Lakeview is a former rural municipality in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was originally incorporated as a rural municipality on April 10, 1920. It ceased on January 1, 2015 as a result of its provincially mandated amalgamation with the RM of Westbourne and the Town of Gladstone to form the Municipality of WestLake – Gladstone.
Located on the west shore of Lake Manitoba, the first immigrants to the area that became the RM were from Iceland. In 1901, the Census listed 142 or the 297 residents as having Icelandic as their mother tongue. The RM's first Council included: Magnus Peterson, G.W. Langdon, Jas. M. Birnie, John Arksey, Alf W. Law, George Hall and Earl E. Davidson.

Communities

According to the 1901 Census records: Population: 297
World War I Enlisted: 58. World War II Enlisted: 140.
Based on data from "Langruth Along the Crocus Trail", published in 1984:
According to the Canada 2001 Census: