This includes the provision of training, ongoing consultation, technical analysis, and funding related to land management, community renewal, infrastructure, and the building of capacity of local governments to provide services.
[1] The department is organized into two functional areas: Community Planning and Development; and Infrastructure and Municipal Services.
County councils were abolished in 1884, followed by the judicial boards two years later; the Department of Municipal Commissioner was created thereafter.
[4][5] It provided advisory and program services to municipalities, local economic and environmental organizations, and citizens in rural Manitoba.
[12] The longest-serving Minister of Municipal Affairs in Manitoba was Howard Pawley, who served from 1969 to 1976 and played a significant role in the amalgamation of Winnipeg.