Isabella is a settlement in the Rural Municipality of Miniota, Manitoba. People first began to settle in the Isabella district in the late 1870s. Many people came to Isabella by foot, ox-cart or horse and buggy.
Isabella was named after a Scottish woman, named Isabella Gould Taylor, who was the oldest person in the district at the time.
There was no roads or railway into the town of Isabella, until the year 1909. The Canadian Northern Railway was built from Hallboro to Isabella in 1909.