Manitoba Municipalities: Cornwallis

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Named for a surveyor who worked in the Brandon area under CPR engineer Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Cornwallis was incorporated as a Rural Municipality on 22 December 1883.

Reeves:

Term	Reeve
1884	Charles Whitehead (1836-1919)
1885-1886	John Wright Sifton (1833-1912)
1887-1893	George Roddick (1831-1910)
1894-1901	George H. Halse
1902-1910	Allan Leslie (1858-1938)
1911-1915	William McKelvie
1916-1919	Walter W. Gerry
1920-1922	Andrew Tully Elder (1875-1945)
1923-1933	Allan Leslie (1858-1938)
1934-1945	A. P. Wilton
1946-1966	D. A. Birdsell
1967-1977	P. G. Marsden
1978-1983	Felix Weisgerber
1984-1995	Peter W. “Sonny” Evans
1996-1998	Brian Plumb
1999-2005	D. J. “Scotty” McIntosh
2006	?
2007-2008	Kurt Wasserberg
2009-?	Reg Atkinson

Historic Sites:

Blyth School No. 471 (1886-1964)

Brandon Hills Cemetery

Brandon Hills School No. 138 (1882-1968)

Brandon Hills War Memorial and Pioneer Cairn

Brandon House No. 3 Cairn

Brandon Residential School

Chater Cemetery (Chater)

Chater Pioneers Monument (Chater)

Chater School No. 181 (1884-1959)

Cornwallis Centennial Monument

Cornwallis School No. 187 (1884-1967)

Currie’s Landing

Grand Valley School No. 206 (1897-1957)

Grand Valley Town Site

Little Souris School No. 227 (1884-1967)

Lowes Homestead Monument

Sources:

Municipal Memories: Municipality of Cornwallis, 1884-1984. Cornwallis Centennial Committee, 1984. Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.C67.

This gallery was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 27 April 2013