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)
Land Area (square km)	?

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

Term	Reeve
1912-1914	Robert Allison Cayne Manning (1878-1929)
1915-1916	Richard Hunter Young (1876-1965)
1917-1921	James Fulford Feilde (c1880-1970)
1922-1923	John Champion Collinson (1878-1934)
1924-1925	John Herbert Riley (1885-1960)
1926-1930	Frank Scott Fowler (1888-1955)
1931	Cecil Wood
1931-1935	Frank Campbell Cave (1885-1965)
1936-1945	Charles B. Johnston
1946-1953	Leslie Raymond “Ray” Fennell (1893-1986)
1954-1955	William Scott Neal (1914-1993)
1956-1959	R. Darwin Chase (1905-1979)
1960-1967	Leslie Raymond “Ray” Fennell (1893-1986)
1968-1971	Richard Alan “Dick” Wankling (1926-2004)
1972	Merged into Winnipeg

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

Term	Police Chief
1945-1974	Arthur “Art” Bridgwater (1910-1976)

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