Manitoba Communities: Springfield (Rural Municipality)

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This municipality was named for an open spring of water on the homestead of a Mr. Forbes.

Present Status	Rural Municipality of Springfield (1880)
Incorporation History	Rural Municipality of Springfield and Sunnyside (27 September 1873) Rural Municipality of Springfield (1880)
Adjoining Municipalities	Brokenhead, East St. Paul, Reynolds, Tache, Winnipeg
Constituent Communities	Anola, Cooks Creek, Deacon, Dugald, Glass, Hazelridge, Meadowvale, Melrose, Millbrook, Monominto, North Transcona, Nourse, Oakbank, Ostenfeld, Pine Ridge, Queens Valley, Sapton, Vivian
Land Area (square km)	1100.92

Population

Year	Total
1891	1000
1896	1367
1901	2585
1911	5015
1921	5666
1931	6486
1941	6863
1951	5375
1956	5120
1961	5608
1966	5670
1971	5955
1976	6944
1981	8986
1986	9836
1991	11102
1996	12162
2001	12602
2006	12990
2011	14069
2016	15342
2021	16142

Reeves

Period	Reeve
1873-1874	William Robert Dick (1821-1904)
1874-1876	John MacKenzie Smith (1839-1917)
1876-1878	John Scott
1878-1880	S. J. Corbett
1880-1881	Charles B. Eadie (Warden)
1881-1882	S. J. Corbett
1882-1883	John Winram
1883-1884	Angus E. McLeod
1884-1885	John Matheson
1885-1891	R. S. Conklin
1891-1892	Robert Fisher
1892-1894	William Henry Corbett (1847-1941)
1894-1897	R. S. Conklin
1897-1898	Isaac Murphy
1898-1899	E. Anderson
1899-1900	J. Matheson
1900-1903	William Henry Corbett (1847-1941)
1903-1904	William Brett
1904-1905	George Miller
1905-1906	William Brett
1906-1909	George Miller
1909-1910	I. W. McKinley
1910-1911	George Miller
1911-1913	Isaac Cook
1913-1914	William Brett
1914-1920	Isaac Cook
1920-1935	John Holland
1935-1937	J. A. Fisher
1937-1939	Albert Woloszynski (c1888-1954)
1939-1945	J. A. Fisher
1945-1947	M. Winzinowich
1947-1957	Stanley Grant Smith (c1890-1963)
1957-1967	Stephen Roscoe (1907-1993)
1967-1971	George Edward Kraushar (1914-2006)
1971-1974	H. R. “Harry” Fisher
1974-1977	George Edward Kraushar (1914-2006)
1977-1998	John “Jack” Nicol (1935-2015)
1998-2006	John D. Holland
2006-2010	Peter Skrupski
2010-2014	Jim McCarthy
2014-2018	Bob Bodnaruk
2018-2022	Tiffany Fell
2022-?	Patrick Therrien

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Maps

Sources

“Municipality of Springfield and Sunnyside,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 25 January 1876, page 6.

“Springfield and Sunnyside - a historical sketch,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 24 July 1879, page 1.

“Civic Elections [Springfield],” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 14 December 1887, page 1.

“Former Reeve of Springfield dies aged 66,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 December 1954, page 27.

Springfield, 1st Rural Municipality in Manitoba, 1873-1973, Dugald Women’s Institute.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

We thank Nathan Kramer and Rick Wilson for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 7 May 2023