Birds Hill, Manitoba

Birds Hill is a community in the Canadian province of Manitoba located a few kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of East St. Paul. The community is a few kilometres east of the Red River. A large property in the area was owned by James Curtis Bird, a retired Hudson's Bay Company employee, after whom the area is named. His son, Curtis James Bird inherited the property from his father.

Silver Springs Park, an old gravel pit, East St. Paul.

The hills in the area were a place for settlers and native peoples to escape to when fleeing high flood waters along the Red River valley. Originally the area was settled by farmers and the gravel deposits in the area were used to build roads in Winnipeg and nearby locations. A portion of the community is located on top of a hill formed during the last ice age by a glacial sand deposit, or esker. Birds Hill Park is located on the same ridge of sand eskers, but at the other end of them. These sand ridges are some of the highest elevations in south-central Manitoba.

See also

• Birds Hill Provincial Park
• Winnipeg Folk Festival

References

• James Curtis Bird
• Geographic Names of Manitoba (pg. 27) - the Millennium Bureau of Canada

Coordinates: 49°58′30″N 97°00′19″W / 49.97500°N 97.00528°W