History

The Resort Village of Island View is located on the east side of Last Mountain Lake and about 1 kilometre south of Rowan's Ravine Provincial Park. The picturesque growing Resort Village is home to approximately 134 permanent residents living in 71 of its 309 lots. 

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The Council consists of one Mayor and four Councillors. The Resort Village Office is located at 102 Marine Drive near the bulletin board and mail boxes.

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The Resort Village of Island View was first begun in 1959 by Strasbourg Beach Development Co. Ltd. and was called Strasbourg Beach. The land was purchased from John Uhl and operated as an unorganized hamlet within the R.M. of McKillop No. 220. The Resort Village was incorporated as an organized hamlet on January 31, 1991. The name was changed to the present name Island View on January 1, 1994. The Resort Village was incorporated as a Resort Village on January 1, 1994.

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The Town of Strasbourg and Village of Bulyea are within 20 minutes drive of the RV of Island View. Strasbourg has two grocery stores, a Credit Union, a Royal Bank, service station, pharmacy, hardware store, lumberyard, insurance and bookkeeping agency, hairdressers and estheticians, gift store, clothing and design store, second hand store, car wash, autobody shop, mechanics, K-12 school, parks, senior living, and several restaurants. Bulyea has a Co-op service station and hardware store and a bar and restaurant.