[3][4] Prior to about 1870, south-eastern Manitoba, including the Blumenort area, were hunting, fishing, and trapping grounds used by the nomadic Ojibway people.

In 1871, the government began negotiating the articles of the Ojibway land claims for this region of Manitoba.

After signing Treaty 1, the First Nations people of south-eastern Manitoba moved onto the Brokenhead and Rousseau River Reserves.

Four of the delegates decided to advise their people to settle in Manitoba and a Privilegium was signed between with the Canadian government.

[5] The document guaranteed Mennonites religious freedom, private school, military exemption and land that became known as the East Reserve.

In 1932, the farmers of the Blumenort area decided to build a cheese factory[4] on a ridge, about a mile from the site of the former community, which brought further development.

By 1940, there were 16 families and six businesses located along or near the mile road now called Blumenort's Centre Avenue.