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In 1869, an agreement between the Canadian Government and the Hudson Bay Company transferred all Company lands to Canada. As a result trappers from this area withdrew and the area once again became unknown.

The first recorded homesteaders arrived to the plains in the late 1880's. In 1884 Glenlyon Campbell rode his pony over the Riding Mountains and viewed the fertile valley lying between the Duck and Riding Mountains. He found a couple living in a small log house. This was Gilbert Ross from whom the Plains derived their name. Other settlers soon arrived into the Plains area.

In May 1890, William Martin and Joseph Leitch turned the first soil in the Tamarisk District, thus becoming the first homestead in what was later to become the Rural Municipality of Grandview. These earliest homesteaders were of Anglo Saxon descent, the majority of them, from other areas of Canada and Southern Manitoba.

In the fall of 1900 CNR Railway was completed to Grandview (so named for the beautiful view across the valley), bringing more settlers to the district.

In 1901, the area previously known as Gilbert Plains was divided and incorporated as two municipalities - Gilbert Plains and Grandview.