Government

Municipality of Rhineland Office

Treaty Land Acknowledgment

We acknowledge that the communities located within the Municipality of Rhineland sit on Treaty 1 land, the original lands of the Anishinaabe peoples and on the homeland of the Metis nation.

The Municipality of Rhineland respects the treaties that were made on these treaty areas and we dedicate ourselves to moving forward in partnership with our Indigenous communities in a spirit of truth, reconciliation and collaboration. We are all treaty people.

MISSION STATEMENT

"The Municipality will lead and serve the community by supporting social and economic development in order to continually improve our quality of life."
  
The Municipality of Rhineland lies along the Canada-U.S.A. border in South Central Manitoba. Part of the province's Central Plains Region, the community is roughly 100 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg, Manitoba's Capital. The municipality is a mix of rural and small urban communities.
 
The Municipality of Rhineland incorporated on January 1, 2015 via the amalgamation of the Rural Municipality of Rhineland and the Towns of Gretna and Plum Coulee.


Previously the Rural Municipality of Rhineland was incorporated in 1891 and previous to that it was the Rural Municipality of Douglas 1880.


Population Counts

Sources - Sixty Years of Progress: The Rural Municipality of Rhineland, 1884-1944 by Jacob Rempel.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

Year

Total

1881

1673

1891

6500

1896

7860

1901

7832

1911

7272

1921

8400

1931

8314

1941

8936

1951

6730

1956

6451

1961

6003

1966

5339

1971

4776

1976

4550

1981

4525

1986

4321

1991

4150

1996

4172

2001

4183

2006

4125

2011

4373

2016

5945

2021  5819


  
 

Reeves

Term

Mayor

1880

Enoch Winkler (1852-1928)

1881-1883

?

1884

Otto Schultz

1885-1886

Enoch Winkler (1852-1928)

1887

Peter Funk

1888

David Peters

1889

Peter Bergen

1890-1891

Gerhard Klassen

1892-1895

Jacob Heppner

1896

Anton Heppner

1897

Jacob Heppner

1898

Peter R. Friesen

1899

Johann Siemens

1900

Cornelius Bergman

1901

Anton Heppner

1902-1903

Cornelius Bergman

1904-1907

William Berg

1908-1912

H. J. Friesen

1913

Jacob P. Derksen

1914-1916

H. J. Friesen

1917-1918

Jacob A. Klassen

1919

H. D. Penner

1920-1929

Peter A. Toews

1930-1947

John D. Giesbrecht

1948-1953

Edward Pokrant

1954-1955

H. P. Hildebrandt

1956-1957

Jacob F. Janzen

1958-1959

David Wall

1960-1967

W. E. Dueck

1968-1983

Henry D. “H. D.” Hildebrand (1927-2015)

1984-1998

Jacob H. Schroeder (?-2015)

1999-2010

John H. Falk

2010-2011Grant Heinrichs (c1951-2011)

2011-2014

Don Wiebe 

2014-2018

Don Wiebe

2018-2022Don Wiebe
2022-2026Don Wiebe