Manitoba Communities: Brandon (City)

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The site for Brandon was selected in 1881 with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway, taking its name from the fur trade post of Brandon House. The municipality was incorporated directly as a City.

Present Status	City of Brandon (30 May 1882)
Adjoining Municipalities	Cornwallis, Elton
Land Area (square km)	76.89

Population

Year	Total
1891	3778
1901	5620
1906	10408
1911	13839
1916	15215
1921	15397
1926	16443
1931	17082
1936	16461
1941	17383
1946	17551
1951	20598
1956	24796
1961	28166
1966	29981
1971	31150
1976	34901
1981	36242
1986	38708
1991	38567
1996	39175
2001	39716
2006	41511
2011	46061
2016	48883
2021	51313

Mayors

Term	Mayor
1882	Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)
1882-1883	William Winter (1841-1914)
1883-1884	Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)
1884-1886	James Allan Smart (1858-1942)
1886-1887	Charles Adams (1858-1931)
1887-1889	Alexander Cumming Fraser (1849-1944)
1889-1891	Andrew Kelly (1852-1930)
1891-1894	John S. McDiarmid (1846-1936)
1894-1896	James Allan Smart (1858-1942)
1896-1898	Ezekiel Evans (1859-1930)
1898-1900	John S. McDiarmid (1846-1936)
1900-1902	Alexander Cumming Fraser (1849-1944)
1902-1904	Robert Hall (1849-1911)
1904-1906	John William Fleming (1868-1928)
1906-1908	Stephen Emmett Clement (1867-1947)
1908-1910	Henry Lamont Adolph (1862-1940)
1910-1913	John William Fleming (1868-1928)
1913-1914	Joseph Henry Hughes (1857-1917)
1914-1918	Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1918-1919	Alfred Reginald McDiarmid (1878-1944)
1919-1921	George Dinsdale (1887-1943)
1921-1931	Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1931-1933	Edmund Fotheringham (1879-1960)
1933-1937	Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1937-1943	Frederick Henry Young (1887-1957)
1943-1945	Leslie Hill McDorman (1879-1966)
1945-1951	Franklin Truman Williamson (1897-1960)
1951-1955	James Albert Creighton (1905-1990)
1955-1957	Stuart Duncan Schultz (1892-1974)
1957-1961	James Albert Creighton (1905-1990)
1961-1969	Stephen Adolph Magnacca (1902-1980)
1969-1974	William Keith “Bill” Wilton (1919-1992)
1974-1977	Elwood Clinton Gorrie (1915-2002)
1977-1978	Gilbert Doud Box (1912-1981)
1978-1989	Kenneth John Burgess (1928-2005)
1989-1997	Richard N. “Rick” Borotsik
1997-2002	Reginald C. “Reg” Atkinson
2002-2010	David K. “Dave” Burgess
2010-2014	Shari Decter Hirst
2014-2022	Rick Chrest
2022-?	Jeff Fawcett

Aldermen / Councillors (1882-2023)

Surname begins: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Councillor	Term(s)
Charles Adams (1858-1931)	1884, 1886
Henry Lamont “Harry” Adolph (1862-1940)	1905-1908
Bob Alexander	1950-1951
Mrs. M. Alexander	1887
F. Anderson	1978-1988
J. Anderson	1886-1887
G. B. Angus	1883
J. Armstrong	1978-1980
R. K. Armstrong	1965
J. Arthur	1885
Thomas Terrant Attinison	1888
B
A. Badgley	1975-1977
? Bain	1929-1930
C. Balmer	1959-1960
W. J. Barclay	1885
V. Barletta	2002-2009
T. Bass	1952-1953
Shawn Berry	2010-2023
John “Errol” Black (1939-2012)	1998-2009
M. Blight	2002-2013
William H. Boreskie (1896-1980)	1938-1959, 1961-1964
Richard N. “Rick” Borotsik	1978-1984
William Bourke	1913-1920
S. M. Bower	1882
Gilbert Doud Box (1912-1981)	1960-1969
B. Boyd	1975-1980
J. Brereton	1971-1974
J. H. Brock	1882, 1884
J. Brockest	1970-1974
B. Brooking	1975-1977
G. Brown	1967-1968
John A. Brown	1889
L. Brown	2002-2005
R. Brown	2014-2020
L. Buchan	1882
Alfred Edward Bullock (1871-1957)	1915-1918
James M. Burchill	1906
? Burchill	1926
David K. “Dave” Burgess	1998-2001
E. Burke	1886
J. F. Burke	1885
Anthony Daniel “Tony” Burneski (1909-1993)	1944-1969
Alex Burns	1886
C
? Cairns	1929-1930
Drew Caldwell	1992-1998
A. D. Cameron	1883-1885
Hugh R. Cameron (1854-1915)	1892-1894
Shaun Cameron	2018-2023
J. H. Campbell	1958-1961
M. Campbell	1989-2009
N. Campbell	1969-1970
I. E. Carey	1920-1921
N. N. Carruthers	1902
D. W. Cater	1913
Henry William “Harry” Cater (1869-1945)	1909-1911, 1913
R. Cayer	1975-1977, 1986-1988
J. Chaboyer	2010-2021
Rick Chrest	1995-2005
Ernest Lisle Christie (1864-1934)	1895-1896
John A. Christie (1840-1920)	1892
Francis Joseph “Frank” Clark (1860-1953)	1907-1912, 1934-1941
? Clark	1935, 1937, 1939, 1941
F. Clark	1971-1974
John Clark	1911
David E. Clement (1874-1938)	1924-1927, 1930-1935
Robert Addison “Bob” Clement (1911-2005)	1955-1958
Stephen Emmett Clement (1867-1947)	1906
? Clement	1884
W. L. Clendening	1921-1922
George Robson Coldwell (1858-1924)	1888-1908
George Benjamin Coleman (1865-1943)	1908-1923, 1925
T. H. Collister	1964-1965
A. Cook	1960-1961
F. C. Courtice	1955-1956
Flora Cruickshank Cowan (1902-1986)	1954-1969
James Edward Crane (1855-1927)	1926-1927
Robert Crawford (1862-?)	1921-1925
James Albert “Jimmy” Creighton (1905-1990)	1946, 1948-1949, 1962
A. J. Crouch	1927-1929
William Crouch	1911
M. Crystal	1954-1958
Barry Cullen	2014-2023
? Cumming	1918-1919
Joseph Benson Curran (1855-1935)	1911-1915, 1917-1925, 1927-1928
W. J. Currie	1926-1927
D
H. R. Davis	1928-1931, 1933-1934
B. Deacon	1992-1994
Kris Desjarlais	2014-2023
J. Dickinson	1885
George Dinsdale (1887-1943)	1918-1919, 1924-1927
J. M. Donovan	1957-1958
? Donnelly	1929-1932
Samuel C. Doran	1907-1908
William Dowling	1909-1910
? Durst	1884
P. E. Durst	1895
R. Dyck	1978-1983
E
Robert Edgar	1890-1891
? Edworthy	1947-1948
P. Egan	1978-1980
George William Epton (1890-1952)	1923-1925
A. A. Evans	1913-1914
Ezekiel Evans (1859-1930)	1882-1883, 1890, 1913-1914
Richard Dermot Evans (1852-1923)	1904-1907
F
Jeff Fawcett	2010-2013, 2015-2021
R. Ficek	1989-1994
? Fisher	1915-1916
K. Fitzpatrick	1999-2001, 2006-2009
Alexander Fleming (1841-1897)	1887
John William Fleming (1868-1928)	1895-1899, 1910
H. G. Fletcher	1914-1917
William Elyak Flimmerfelt	1889
? Forsyth	1937-1938
Loftus Morton Fortier (1858-?)	1882-1883
F. Foster	1970-1971
Edmund “Ed” Fotheringham (1879-1960)	1917-1918, 1927-1928
S. Frangi	2021
H. Fraser	1973-1974
G
H. Gibson	1968-1971
James S. Gibson	1891-1892
J. Giddings	1912-1915, 1931-1934
Elwood Clinton Gorrie (1915-2002)	1972-1974
H. Gould	1940-1943
Arnold Grambo	1984-1994
J. G. Grant	1934-1936
John Alfred George Grantham (c1865-1923)	1917-1921
Robert Grantham	1922
Wally Green	1950-1953, 1959
G. Guentert	1981-1983
O. Gusdal	1966
H
Benjamin Jones Hales (1868-1945)	1920-1923
Abraham Leonard Hall (1863-1927)	1919-1920
Nicholas John Halpin	1888-1889, 1893-1894, 1896, 1901
V. Hamilton	2014-2015
John Hanbury (1855-1928)	1886, 1890-1892, 1899-1900
William Lyon Harcourt (1846-1921)	1905-1906
Arthur Augustus “Art” Harris (1903-1982)	1948-1957
J. Harwood	1986-1990, 2006-2017
J. Henderson	1972-1974
M. Hersack	1976-1980
Greg Hildebrand	2022-2023
? Hill	1928
W. H. Hooper	1894
J. W. Horne	1882
Thomas R. Hornor	1903-1904
P. Hudy	1975-1977
E. Hughes	1884-1886
I. Hughes	1887
? Hughes	1928-1931, 1936-1937
Joseph Henry Hughes (1857-1917)	1909-1912
I
Len J. Isleifson	2010-2013
J
G. Jamieson	1975-1977
Arthur Page Jeffery (1865-1942)	1906-1910
D. Jessiman	1995-2009
? Johnson	1938-1939
James A. Johnston	1883-1885
C. H. Johnston	1948, 1950-1954
K
Heather Karrouze	2022-2023
James C. Kavanagh (1850-1923)	1884-1885
J. Kay	1989-1992, 1994-1997
John Keddy	1893-1894
J. Kelleher	1984-1985
Andrew Kelly (1852-1930)	1887-1889
Thomas Edward Kelly	1887-1889, 1894-1905
J. D. Kennedy	1921-1926
D. Kille	1989-1997
L. Kindrat	1984-1985
? Kirkcaldy	1907
James Kirkcaldy (1866-1957)	1934-1952
R. Kitchen	1958-1961
Hy Koester	1911-1912
M. Kotyk	1967-1971, 1978-1980
L
C. A. Larkin	1884-1885
T. Lee	1884
R. Lemieux	1992-1994
Frank Cecil Lissaman (1870-1954)	1932-1933
? Little	1986-1988
M. Lockhart	1882
Francis Reginald Longworth (1891-1955)	1929
J. LoRegio	2014-2020
Bruce Luebke	2018-2023
T. Lumbard	1998-2001
E. Lyons	1969-1974
M
L. MacKenzie	1995-1997
M. MacKenzie	1956-1957
Henry Fitzgibbon “Harry” Maley (1869-?)	1901-1906
A. Martin	1977, 1981-1983
R. Martin	1981-1997
William John McComb (1861-1935)	1912-1913
James Collus “Jim” McCrae	1984-1985, 2006-2012
Henry Oliver McDiarmid (1882-1952)	1919-1920
I. McDiarmid	1887
John McDiarmid	1891
John McDonald	1913-1914
Leslie Hill McDorman (1879-1966)	1940-1943
N. A. McDowell	1944-1949
P. McDuffe	1970
James D. McGregor	1890-1891
Alex McIlvride	1896-1901
Duncan McKelorie	1888
A. G. McKenzie	1966-1967
J. D. McKenzie	1912
Murdoch McKenzie (1862-1934)	1897, 1904-1909, 1911, 1913-1921, 1923-1926
Philip McKenzie	1886, 1897-1898
Alexander B. McLeod	1907-1908
W. McLeod	1975-1977, 1981-1983
D. Melcosky	1989-1991
M. Melnyk	1975-1988
William H. Merritt	1892-1894
Peter Middleton	1906-1908
? Mitchell	1932-1933
J. Mitchell	1962-1973
S. Montague	2010-2013
? Moor	1884
G. Munro	1887
D. Munroe	1981-1991
John Murray	1890
N
Frederick Nation (1861-1955)	1899-1902
J. B. Neill	1960
P. Neufeld	1966-1968
H. Nikkel	1965-1970
O
William Vincent Oglesby (1884-1965)	1924-1935
Robert H. O'Hara	1911-1912
P
Glen Parker	2016-2022
William Linton Parrish (1860-1949)	1897
James Parsley	1888
D. Paterson	1998-2009
Henry Lewis Patmore (1861-1946)	1915-1917, 1921-1927
Alexander Bayne “Sandy” Patterson (1885-1959)	1930-1943
Bertram Lyell “Ticker Taker” Patterson (1888-1963)	1929-1949, 1951-1956
James Patterson	1893-1894
L. Patterson	2014-2017
T. Penton	1964-1968
T. M. Percival	1905
Charles Pilling	1882-1883, 1889, 1897-1900
John Popkin	1944-1947
J. Purdie	1970-1974
Q
R
David Anson Reesor (1860-1940)	1893-1896
J. Reid	1984-1997
G. Rice	2002-2013
C. Ridgen	1972-1974
C. Roberts	2010-2013
John McLeod Robertson (1870-1941)	1922-1923
? Robertson	1926
J. C. Robinson	1885
M. Robinsong	1999-2001
W. M. Rose	1883
John D. Ross (1858-1927)	1909-1910
Gabriel Richard Rowe (1897-1968)	1962-1963
D. Rungay	1971
James Alexander Russell	1888-1892
S
Stuart Duncan Schultz (1892-1974)	1942-1955
D. Scott	1969
A. Shewan	1919-1920
Walter Henderson Shillinglaw (1864-1957)	1913-1914
J. M. Shurb	1959-1964
A. L. Sifton	1882-1884
D. Simpson	1962-1963
B. Smale	1998-2005
James Allan Smart (1858-1942)	1882-1883, 1894
? Smith	1884
? Smith	1938, 1944
? Smith	1986-1988
S. Smith	1995-1998
Harry Spafford (1888-1978)	1928-1945
Richmond Spencer	1892
F. S. Spiers	1939-1941
Jason Splett	2022-2023
J. Stewart	1886
K. Stewart	1885
R. G. Stewart	1965-1966
Isaiah Root Strome (1851-1942)	1898-1904
A. F. Sutherland	1895-1896
T
Tyson Tame	2022-2023
? Tennant	1936-1937
J. Thomassen	1972-1976
? Trench	1915-1916
Alexander “Alex” Trotter	1893-1894, 1901-1904
Beecham Trotter (1860-1934)	1914-1918
U
V
Alfred “Bert” Veale (1887-1960)	1948-1956
W
? Wade	1947
James Wade	1927-1928, 1946-1947
John Percy Wadge (1875-1951)	1911-1912
Benjamin D’Arcy Wallace (1861-1936)	1907-1910
Thomas Wastie	1890-1891
Dr. C. Webb	1957-1961
W. R. Webb	1935-1950, 1952-1954
D. Weiss	1963-1965
Charles J. Whillier	1908-1910
Franklin Truman “Frank” Williamson (1897-1960)	1939-1943, 1945
? Wilson	1912
C. R. Wilson	1957-1959, 1961-1964
William Winter (1841-1914)	1882
George Winters	1882-1883
Joseph Edward Woodworth (1837-1889)	1883
M. Workman	1975-1983
X
Y
Frederick Henry Young (1887-1957)	1922-1924, 1928, 1931-1933, 1935-1937
Z
William Zink	1902-1903

Police Chiefs

Term	Police Chief
1882-1885	Archibald L. McMillan (1846-1885)
1886-1890	Peter C. Duncan
1890-1892	John Russell Foster (1853-1941)
1892-1905	James Kirkcaldy (1867-1957)
1905-1912	Watson Hartford Boyd (1860-?)
1912-1914	Edward George Berry (1879-1961)
1914-1919	John Esslemont (1868-1951)
1919-1923	Joseph Robson Hardy (1890-?)
1923-1947	Harry Bernard Everett (1886-1947)
1947-1963	Thomas Henry “Harry” Collister (1898-1975)
1963-1970	Archibald Charles “Charlie” Goucher (1907-1979)
1970-1979	David Andrew McNamee (1920-2013)
1979-1988	Kenneth Robert “Ken” Elliott (1932-2017)
1989-1995	Brian Grant Parker Scott (1937-2010)
1995-2001	Richard “Dick” Scott
2001-2007	F. Richard Bruce
2007-2013	Keith J. Atkinson
2013-2017	Ian R. Grant
2017-2023	Wayne Balcaen

Postmasters

Term	Postmaster
?-1924	Thomas M. Percival (1851-?)
1925-?	William James Munn (1886-1936)

Memorable Manitobans

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Historic Sites

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Maps

Contact Information

410 Ninth Street
Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A2
Telephone: 204-729-2296
Email: cityclerk@brandon.ca

Sources

Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

We thank Sandy Jasper for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jason Woloski.

Page revised: 2 September 2023