Manitoba Municipalities: Portage la Prairie (RM)

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Portage la Prairie was incorporated as a Rural Municipality on 14 February 1880.

Reeves:

Term	Reeve
1880	H. M. Campbell (?-?) - Warden
1881-1882	John Wilton (1810-1900) - Warden
1883-1884	Matthew Ferriss (1818-1900) - Warden and Reeve
1885-1886	Lachlan W. McLean (1846-1913)
1887-1888	Thomas Hatton Metcalfe (1839-1921)
1889-1990	W. F. Smith
1891	J. W. Jackson
1892	Gardner Greenlay (?-?)
1893	James McBain
1894-1895	William Fulton
1896-1897	Maxwell Wilton (1837-1925)
1898-1899	James Bray
1900	William Thomas Muir (c1857-1900)
1901-1902	George Lytle (1845-1908)
1903-1904	C. E. Grobb
1905-1906	John Weir
1907-1908	William McBride
1909-1910	George Cadman
1911-1912	Robert J. Caskey
1913-1914	Harry Leader (1880-1946)
1915-1922	Edwin Herbert Muir (1868-?)
1923-1925	Robert McDermott (1868-1947)
1926-1928	David Thompson
1929-1931	John Pigott “Jack” Bend (1883-1969)
1932-1933	Charles A. Curtis
1934-1935	Wilfred Metcalfe
1936-1937	O. C. Neuman
1938-1940	Thomas Weir McCartney (1874-1940)
1941-1949	Allan McCallister
1950-1961	J. Lawrence Smith (1889-1967)
1962-1963	T. N. Kitchen
1964-1977	Robert Samuel Adrain (1912-1996)
1978-1986	Sydney J. Lye
1987-2005	James A. Knight
2006	?
2007-2010	J. T. “Toby” Trimble

Historic Sites:

Beautiful Valley School No. 924 (1897-1965)

Belle Plain School No. 46 (1877-1967)

J. P. Bend Memorial Rink (Poplar Point)

Bernier School No. 718 (1892-1967)

Bethel Church

Burnside and Edwin Churches Memorial

Burnside Cemetery

Burnside School No. 24 (1875-1969)

Cochrane School No. 43 (1877-1953)

Dale School No. 705 (1893-1963)

Delta Beach School No. 1810 (1915-1967)

Delta Marsh Field Station

East Curtis School No. 1187 (1902-1967)

East Poplar Point School No. 15 (1873-1955)

East Prospect School No. 111 (1880-1963)

Edwin School No. 735 (1893-1969)

Elm River School No. 622 (1890-1967)

Euclid School No. 187 (1882-1967)

First Homestead in Western Canada

Flee Island Dakota Entrenchment

Flee Island School No. 527 (1888-1964)

Fort la Reine Monument

Fortier School No. 741 (1893-1966)

Gainsborough School No. 1941 (1918-1969)

Glengarry School No. 77 (1888-1960)

Half-Way Tree

High Bluff Village School No. 771 (1893-1963)

Hill Barn

Hood School No. 1381 (1901-1967)

Ingleside School No. 831 (1894-1967)

Jackson United Church (1909-1961)

Kelvin Church

Kelvin School No. 1347 (1907-1964)

Layland School No. 2090

Lynch Party Monument

Macdonald Pioneer Cemetery

Maple Grove Cemetery / Salem Cemetery

Mill Creek School No. 929 (1898-1967)

Minnetonka School No. 659 (1891-1967)

North High Bluff School No. 23 (1875-1963)

North Ridge Road School No. 730 (1893-1968)

Oakville Cemetery

Oakville School No. 655 (1891-1967)

Oakville War Memorial

Old High Bluff School No. 13 (1871-1963)

Overhill School No. 2084 (1922-1967)

Poplar Bluff School No. 734 (1893-1967)

Poplar Point Memorial Rink

Portage Creek School No. 505 (1886-1965)

Presbyterian Church Cairn

Prospect Plains Methodist Cemetery

Prospect Presbyterian Cemetery

Prospect United Church

Salem School No. 623 (1890-1969)

Setter's Cemetery

South Ridge Road School No. 730 (1893-1967)

St. Ambroise Cemetery

St. Ambroise Dakota Entrenchment

St. Anne's Anglican Church

St. Margaret's Anglican Church Cemetery

Sioux Pass Project

Sports Afield Lodge

Tintown

Wacker Roadhouse

West Curtis School No. 1187 (1902-1969)

West Oakland School No. 110 (1881-1941)

West Prospect School No. 112 (1881-1965)

Sources:

Manitoba Gazette, 1887-1959. Manitoba Legislative Library.

Portage la Prairie, 1870-1970 by Anne M. Collier, 1970.

This gallery was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 17 May 2013