Manitoba Communities: Kildonan (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)

Link to:
Population | Mayors / Reeves | Memorable Manitobans | Historic Sites | History Books | Maps | Contact Information | Sources

This municipality was named for a region in Scotland from which a group of Selkirk Settlers had come in the early 1800s.

Present Status	City of Winnipeg (1 January 1972)
Incorporation History	Municipality of Kildonan and St. James (1876) Rural Municipality of Kildonan (1880) Divided into East Kildonan and West Kildonan (1914)
Land Area (square km)	?

Population

Year	Total
1871	500
1881	700
1891	700
1896	?
1901	668
1911	1767

Reeves

Term	Reeve
1876-1878	William Henderson
1879	Thomas Anderson
1880	William Henderson
1881-1883	John Matheson
1884-1885	Edward Phillip “EP” Leacock (1853-1927)
1886-1897	William Fraser (1832-1909)
1898-1899	John Sutherland (1837-1922)
1900-1905	John Henderson (1841-1922)
1906-1908	Albert Ryerson Bredin (1868-?)
1909-1913	Samuel Robert Henderson (1863-1928)
1914	Edmund Partridge (1868-1955)
	Subdivided into East Kildonan and West Kildonan

Councillors

Councillor	Term(s)
Thomas Anderson	1876-1878
Alex Bannerman	1895-1897
Albert Ryerson Bredin (1868-1956)	1900-1904
E. P. Brooks	1913-1914
Neil Campbell	1882-1893, 1898
I. Colish	1914
W. H. Coulter	1907
Donald Flett	1895-1897
John Flett	1876
John Fortier	1908, 1912
John B. Fortier	1910
William Fraser	1880, 1882-1885
Robert Gunn	1879
A. R. Hamilton	1913
Daniel Hamilton	1879
E. A. Hamilton	1911-1912
J. Harper	1913
James Harper	1897, 1899-1912
William Harper	1898
John Henderson	1881-1888, 1890-1897
Samuel Robert Henderson (1863-1928)	1894, 1896-1907
C. F. Herbert	1905
George T. Hoyes	1898-1899
Peter Kauffman	1881-1882, 1885-1887, 1889-1894
John A. Larson	1901
Donald Matheson	1902-1904
John Matheson	1876-1880
Norman Matheson	1877, 1895-1896, 1898-1900, 1906
Samuel Matheson	1881
William Matheson	1876
Robert McBeth	1883-1895
Peter McCalman	1905-1906
J. N. McCreary	1908-1912
Thomas McIntosh	1895-1896
Angus M. McKay	1908-1909
William McKay	1898-1913
Charles Midwinter	1906-1907
Alex Munro	1905
Alex Munroe	1880-1881
Donald Munroe	1910-1911, 1914
James Munroe	1878
Edmund Partridge (1868-1955)	1901-1903, 1907-1912
Alex Polson	1877-1879, 1882-1884
Angus Polson	1886-1887, 1889-1893
Joseph Armour Potter	1900
W. C. Smith	1913-1914
Donald Sutherland	1881
Hector Sutherland	1894-1895
J. R. Sutherland	1882-1889
John Sutherland	1880-1881, 1888-1894
Morrison Sutherland	1899
Robert Wilke Toshack (1859-1943)	1914
Freeman West	1904
Herbert C. Whellams (1867-1950)	1909, 1913-1914

Sources:

We thank Jim Smith and Nathan Kramer for providing information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 14 May 2017