Methven Village was started in 1891, the year after the Canadian Pacific Railway was built this far, coming from Glenboro in 1890. The site was located on the NE quarter of 32-07-17[-W1] and the NW quarter of 33-7-17[-W1], and the name was taken from Methven Village, Perthshire, Scotland.

The Northern Pacific Railway, Morris-Brandon section, crossed the C.P.R. one and a half miles west of Methven, and this point was called Methven Junction.

A school had been built on the SW quarter of 04-08-17[-W1] just north of Methven site in 1881 and named Sourisburg No. 136.

The first Methven settlement of 1891 consisted of a railway station with telegraph and express office, a post office with mail twice a week, a Methodist church. The Methven circuit then formed with Methven, Wawanea and Chesley.

(Source: Oakland Echoes 1879-1970, pp 158f [1970; Adapted])

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Over the years, Methven as a village or hamlet, has disappeared. The last remaining movable building to go was the Lake of the Woods grain elevator, which was moved to the Hutterite Colony at Little Souris. All that is left of the village is a well maintained Cemetery just south of the (former) Townsite.

(Source: Manitoba Genealogical Society [Adapted])

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Dominion Land Survey coordinates: LSD04-33-07-17-W1

In the Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa

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As noted above, a part of the community's story, and those of its inhabitants, from the early days of European settlement through roughly 1970 is told in the volume "Oakland Echoes 1879-1970", especially on the cited pages. A free digital version of this and many other Manitoba local history books can be found online in the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. There is also a list of such books organized by district and town name on the Manitoba Historical Society's website on their page entitled "Finding Aid: Manitoba Local History Books".

A list of burials in this cemetery is available from the Manitoba Genealogical Society (reference #0082), transcribed by a member or members in 1978. Also available to MGS members is a searchable online database named the "MGS Manitoba Name Index" (or MANI). Some additional information is contained in the 1996 MGS publication "Carved in Stone: Manitoba Cemeteries and Burial Sites" (revised edition, Special Projects Publication, 106 pages).