Manitoba Municipalities: Brandon

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Brandon was incorporated as a City on 30 May 1882.

Mayors:

Term	Mayor
1882	Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)
1883	William Winter (c1840-1914)
1884	Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)
1885-1886	James Allan Smart (1858-1942)
1887	Charles Adams (1858-1931)
1888-1889	Alexander Cumming Fraser (1849-1944)
1890-1891	Andrew Kelly (1852-1930)
1892-1894	John S. McDiarmid (1846-1936)
1895-1896	James Allan Smart (1858-1942)
1897-1898	Ezekiel Evans (1859-1930)
1899-1900	John S. McDiarmid (1846-1936)
1901-1902	Alexander Cumming Fraser (1849-1944)
1903-1904	Robert Hall (1849-1911)
1905-1906	John William Fleming (1868-1928)
1907-1908	Stephen Emmett Clement (1867-1947)
1909-1910	Henry Lamont Adolph (1862-1940)
1911-1913	John William Fleming (1868-1928)
1914	Joseph Henry Hughes (1857-1917)
1915-1918	Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1919	Alfred Reginald McDiarmid (1878-1944)
1920-1921	George Dinsdale (1887-1943)
1922-1931	Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1932-1933	Edmund Fotheringham (1879-1960)
1934-1937	Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1938-1943	Frederick H. Young (?-?)
1944-1945	Leslie Hill McDorman (1879-1966)
1946-1951	Franklin Truman Williamson (1897-1960)
1952-1955	James A. Creighton (1905-1990)
1956-1957	Stuart Duncan Schultz (1892-1974)
1958-1960	James A. Creighton (1905-1990)
1961-1969	Stephen A. Magnacca (1902-1980)
1970-1974	William Keith “Bill” Wilton (1919-1992)
1975-1977	Elwood Clinton Gorrie (1915-2002)
1977-1978	Gilbert D. Box (1912-1981)
1979-1989	Kenneth John Burgess (1928-2005)
1989-1997	Richard N. Borotsik
1997-2002	Reginald C. Atkinson
2002-2010	David K. Burgess
2010-?	Shari Decter Hirst

Police Chiefs:

Term	Mayor
1882-1885	Archibald L. McMillan (c1846-1885)
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 G. Berry
1914-1919	John Esslemont
1919-1923	Joseph Robson Hardy (1890-?)
1923-1947	Harry Bernard Everett (1886-1947)
1947-1964	Thomas Henry “Harry” Collister (1898-1975)
1970s	David A. McNamee
2007-2012	Keith Atkinson
2012-?	Ian Grant

Historic Sites:

History in Brandon Street Names

26th Field Regiment Museum / Brandon Armoury (1116 Victoria Avenue)

Alexandra School (College Avenue) - demolished

S. A. Bedford Plaque (Grand Valley Road)

Brandon Cemetery (Eighteenth Street)

Brandon Central Fire Station (637 Princess Avenue)

Brandon College and Clark Hall Buildings (270 Eighteenth Street)

Brandon Collegiate Institute / New Era School (527 Louise Avenue)

Brandon Court House and Gaol (525 Victoria Avenue East)

Brandon Experimental Farm Plaque (Grand Valley Road)

Brandon Indian Residential School (Grand Valley Road) - demolished

Brandon Mental Health Centre Centennial Cairn (First Street)

Brandon Mental Health Centre Nurses’ Residence

Brandon Normal School (1129 Queens Street)

Brandon Water Tower (Park Street)

Brandon YWCA Building (148 Eleventh Street)

Central Fire Station (637 Princess Avenue)

Chrest / Fraser Block (1031 Rosser Avenue)

Christie House (404 Thirteenth Street)

Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum (300 Commonwealth)

Daly House Museum (122 Eighteenth Street)

Dominion Exhibition Display Building II (Fairgrounds)

Earl Haig School (First Street) - demolished

Earl Oxford School (540 Eighteenth Street)

Fleming School (2320 Louise Avenue)

B. J. Hales House (1312 Tenth Street)

Maley House / “Casa Maley” (1605 Victoria Avenue)

McKenzie House (436 Victoria Avenue)

New Central School (Lorne Avenue) - demolished

Old Central School (Tenth Street)

Park School / West Ward School (Lorne Avenue) - demolished

Paterson / Matheson House (1039 Louise Avenue)

Prince Edward Hotel (Princess Avenue) - demolished

St. Matthew’s Anglican Cathedral (403 Thirteenth Street)

Shillinglaw House (302 Russell Avenue)

Clifford Sifton Plaque (Ninth Street)

Stone Fence (Seventeenth Street)

Villa Louise (707 Louise Avenue)

Zink’s Grocery Store (361 First Street)

Sources:

“City police force boasts rollicking history,” Brandon Sun, 30 June 1982, page B14.

“Crime and vice haven’t been strangers,” Brandon Sun, 29 June 2007, page A24.

“Grant named new BPS chief,” Brandon Sun, 4 December 2012, page A1.

This gallery was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 14 May 2013