Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Manyberries" in English language version.
The name was chosen for the post office in 1911 and taken from the nearby creek. It was approved for the hamlet in 1939. The Canadian Pacific Railway established a divisional point here on the Stirling Subdivision. It began operation in 1916. (See Manyberries Creek.)
[The creek's name] is derived from the Blackfoot word akoniskway... Generations of Indigenous peoples came to the area every autumn to pick an assortment of berries, including saskatoons (Amelanchier alnifolia) and choke cherries (Prunus virginiana) [to] make pemmican and to supplement a diet heavily dependent upon meat. The name was noted by the Dominion Lands Survey as early as 1883...
