Manitoba Communities: Carman (Town)

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This municipality was named in commemoration of Reverend Albert Carman (1833-1917) on a suggestion by local resident Rodmond P. Roblin. Carman had been Chancellor of Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, where Roblin had been educated. He was also Bishop of the Episcopal Methodist Church in Canada (1874-1883) and General Superintendent of the Methodist Church in Canada (1883-1917). Known originally as Carman City, the City was later dropped.

Present Status

Town of Carman (1 December 1905)

Incorporation History

Village of Carman (3 November 1899)

Adjoining Municipalities

Dufferin

Land Area (square km)

4.31

Population

Year

Total

1901

1439

1906

1530

1911

1271

1916

1426

1921

1591

1926

1385

1931

1418

1936

1364

1941

1455

1946

1555

1951

1867

1956

1884

1961

1930

1966

1922

1971

2030

1976

2272

1981

2408

1986

2500

1991

2567

1996

2704

2001

2831

2006

2781

2011

3027

2016

3164

2021

3114

Mayors

Term

Mayor

1899-1902

Frank Williams (1862-?)

1902-1904

T. J. Noble

1904-1905

John Henderson Haverson (1854-1932)

1905-1908

Thomas Kernighan

1908-1909

John Henderson Haverson (1854-1932)

1909-1911

John Richard Carthew (1863-1916)
Gavin McClure (1860-c1942)

1911-1913

Herbert Edward Robison (1869-1933)

1913-1916

Frank Bridge (1868-1951)

1916-1918

H. Armstrong

1918-1921

John Alfred Munn (1882-1941)

1921-1924

Levi E. Eby

1924-1927

Albert Seymour Doyle (1865-1954)

1927-1930

S. J. Staples

1930-1939

Richard F. T. Greer (1888-?)

1939-1941

James I. Miller

1941-1945

A. Hardy

1945-1961

Frank C. Harris

1961-1967

Carol Leroy “Roy” Skelton (?-1988)

1967-1973

Sven Ivar Lerche Jensen (c1923-2008)

1973-1983

Dougald Leslie Fletcher (1906-1995)

1983-1986

Eric Lansky (1920-2004)

1986-1992

Robert Stewart “Bob” McKenzie (1938-2018)

1992-2006

R. Murray Rinn

2006-?

Robert J. “Bob” Mitchell

?-2018

?

2018-?

Brent Owen

Memorable Manitobans

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History Books

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Maps

Sources

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 28 October 2022