Manitoba Communities: Fort Garry (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)
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This municipality was named for the fur trade post of Upper Fort Garry.
Present Status |
City of Winnipeg (1 January 1972) |
Incorporation History |
Rural Municipality of Fort Garry (?)
Amalgamation of Assiniboia, Brooklands, Charleswood, East Kildonan, Fort Garry, North Kildonan, Old Kildonan, St. Boniface, St. James, St. Vital, Transcona, Tuxedo, West Kildonan, and Winnipeg (1 January 1972)
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Land Area (square km) |
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Population
Year |
Total |
1901 |
730 |
1911 |
1133 |
1921 |
2451 |
1931 |
3926 |
1941 |
4453 |
1951 |
8193 |
1956 |
13592 |
1961 |
17528 |
1966 |
21177 |
1971 |
26127 |
Reeves and Mayors
Councillors
Councillor |
Term(s) |
J. A. Aitken |
1956 |
? Barnes |
1927-1929 |
William Beddington |
1946-1949 |
J. F. Bishop |
1933-1935 |
D. A. Boulden |
1954-1956 |
W. Q. Burges |
1917 |
Alexander Campbell |
1951 |
Ted Campeau |
1956, 1958-1961 |
Edward Carter |
1917-1918 |
Edmond Champagne |
1912-1915 |
R. Champagne |
1924-1925 |
R. Darwin Chase (1905-1979) |
1955 |
J. R. G. Cloutier |
1955-1956, 1958-1969 |
? Cyr |
1932-1933 |
John deJong |
1941-1945 |
H. D. deMoissac |
1934 |
Ernest Deneweth (1896-1953) |
1929-1932 |
Wilfrid Joseph “Wilf” Ducharme (1917-1980) |
1958-1963 |
A. Basile Dufort |
1941-1943 |
Joseph Pierre Dumas (1875-1950) |
1912-1916 |
A. T. Elders |
1949-1950 |
W. S. Fairbrother |
1954 |
J. F. Fielde |
1915-1916 |
Donald Ross Fonger (1923-2006) |
1960-1961 |
Alex D. Fraser |
1945-1948 |
Rupert Roderick Fultz (1915-1988) |
1952 |
Joseph E. Grandmont |
1912-1921, 1924-1931 |
D. A. Grant |
1968-1969 |
Mathurin Hervo |
1919-1928 |
G. R. Hobson |
1967-1969 |
A. M. Hopper |
1955-1956, 1958-1959 |
J. B. Alphonse Houde |
1944-1955 |
Robert Hunter |
1950-1955 |
Elizabeth “Betty” Ireton (1921-2004) |
1970-1977 |
Charles B. Johnston |
1934-1935 |
W. J. Landreth |
1951 |
Joseph N. Landry |
1922-1923 |
? Landry |
1932-1933 |
Michel Olivier Leclair |
1912-1931 |
J. N. Arthur Leclaire |
1934-1940 |
Gordon L. Leggo |
1944-1945 |
G. W. Lyon |
1958-1959 |
J. H. McCulloch |
1923-1924 |
C. H. McIntosh |
1966-1969 |
George McKenzie |
1914 |
W. R. Moffatt |
1967-1969 |
Otto Muth |
1949-1950, 1953-1954 |
Alexander Nault |
1918-1922, 1925-1926, 1931-1932 |
P. Orzechowski |
1968-1969 |
Gordon M. Pearston |
1936-1943 |
Albert Perreault |
1918-1923, 1926-1933 |
W. D. Pooles |
1964-1965 |
G. W. Rattray |
1953 |
John Herbert Riley (1885-1960) |
1918-1923 |
Dr. E. J. Robb |
1924-1926 |
D. Sanderson |
1964-1966 |
D. R. Seel |
1961-1966 |
G. W. Seier |
1946-1948 |
Milton E. Shantz (1873-?) |
1916-1917 |
R. J. Simpson |
1960-1963 |
Frank Sprague |
1915-1917 |
M. F. Sproule |
1913-1914 |
Harold St. George Stubbs (1912-2005) |
1958-1960 |
Auguste Marc “Gus” Thorimbert (1923-2013) |
1962-1967 |
Richard Alan “Dick” Wankling (1926-2004) |
1962-1967 |
? Webb |
1931-1933 |
George Wedge |
1933-1940 |
L. H. Williamson |
1954-1956 |
Cecil Wood |
1927-1930 |
Richard Hunter Young (1876-1965) |
1912-1914 |
George S. Young |
1936-1944 |
Police Chiefs
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Order of the Gate
Sources:
Manitoba Gazette, 1887-1959. Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Horses on sidewalks irked Fort Garry,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1971, page 22.
We thank the City of Winnipeg Archives and Neil Pryce for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 September 2023
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