Isabella is a settlement in the Rural Municipality of Miniota

Miniota, Manitoba

Miniota is a rural municipality in the province of Manitoba in Western Canada. It is on the Assiniboine River and encompasses the communities of Arrow River, Beulah, Crandall, Isabella and Miniota. The school goes up to grade eight, there is a motel, and the biggest employer is the local co-op....

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

. People first began to settle in the Isabella district in the late 1870s. Many people came to Isabella by foot, ox-cart or horse and buggy.

Isabella was named after a Scottish woman, named Isabella Gould Taylor, who was the oldest person in the district at the time.

There was no roads or railway into the town of Isabella, until the year 1909. The Canadian Northern Railway was built from Hallboro to Isabella in 1909.