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Mayors (1874-present):

Term	Mayor
1874	Francis Evans Cornish (1831-1878)
1875-1876	William Nassau Kennedy (1839-1885)
1877-1878	Thomas Scott (1841-1915)
1879-1880	Alexander Logan (1841-1894)
1881	Elias George Conklin (1845-1901)
1882	Alexander Logan (1841-1894)
1883	Alexander McMicken (1837-1916)
1884	Alexander Logan (1841-1894)
1885	Charles Edward Hamilton (1844-?)
1886	Henry Shaver Westbrook (1842-1913)
1887-1888	Lyman Melvin Jones (1843-1917)
1889	Thomas Ryan (1849-?)
1890-1891	Alfred Pearson (1850-1921)
1892	Alexander Macdonald (1843-1928)
1893-1894	Thomas William Taylor (1852-1924)
1895	Thomas Gilroy (1848-1905)
1896	Richard Willis Jameson (1851-1899)
1897	William Forsythe McCreary (1855-1905)
1898-1899	Alfred Joseph Andrews (1865-1950)
1900	Horace Wilson (1848-c1903)
1901-1903	John Arbuthnot (1861-1931)
1904-1906	Thomas Sharpe (1866-1929)
1907-1908	James Henry Ashdown (1844-1924)
1909-1911	William Sanford Evans(1869-1950)
1912	Richard Deans Waugh (1868-1938)
1913-1914	Thomas Russ Deacon (1865-1955)
1915-1916	Richard Deans Waugh (1868-1938)
1917-1918	Frederick Harvey Davidson (1865-1935)
1919-1920	Charles Frederick Gray (1879-1954)
1921-1922	Edward Parnell (1859-1922)
1922	Frank Oliver Fowler (1861-1945)
1923-1924	Seymour James Farmer (1878-1951)
1925-1927	Ralph Humphreys Webb (1886-1945)
1928-1929	Daniel McLean (1868-1950)
1930-1934	Ralph Humphreys Webb (1886-1945)
1935-1936	John Queen (1882-1946)
1937	Frederick Edgar Warriner (1884-1966)
1938-1942	John Queen (1882-1946)
1943-1954	Garnet Coulter (1882-1975)
1955-1956	George Edward Sharpe (1908-1985)
1957-1977	Stephen Juba (1914-1993)
1977-1979	Robert Ashley Steen (1933-1979)
1979-1992	William Norrie
1992-1998	Susan Ann Thompson
1998-2004	Glen Murray
2004-present	Samuel M. Katz

Aldermen / Councillors (1874-1971):

Councillor	Term(s)
Frank W. Adams (1861-1935)	1907-1911
William Forbes Alloway (1852-1930)	1876-1877, 1879-1880
E. R. Anderson	1961
Victor B. Anderson (1881-?)	1933-1936, 1940-1954
Alfred Joseph Andrews (1865-1950)	1894-1897
George Albert Fletcher Andrews (1856-1890)	1890
Herbert Andrews (1888-1935)	1930-1935
John Arbuthnot (1861-1931)	1897-1898
Heber Archibald (1846-1941)	1885
James Henry Ashdown (1844-1924)	1874, 1879
H. C. Avery	1959-1960
George William Baker (1854-1917)	1888, 1897-1898
Archibald James Bannerman (1862-1928)	1895-1896
William Ward Banning (1842-1885)	1876
Robert Barclay (1840-1907)	1900-1903
Paul Bardal (1889-1966)	1932-1941
James Alexander Barry (1886-1950)	1922-1937
William Bathgate (1832-1903)	1882
Nicholas Bawlf (1849-1914)	1883-1884
H. T. Bell	1889
W. G. Bell	1897-1898, 1900
Albert Edward Bennett (1906-1968)	1955-1960
Andrew Bilecki	1938-1939
Alexander Black (1847-1913)	1887-1890, 1896
James Black	1942-1953
T. Blaine	1961-1962
Sedley Blanchard (1849-1886)	1879
John “Jack” Blumberg (1892-1961)	1920-1956
David Wesley Bole (1856-1933)	1893-1894
Arthur Louis Bond (1870-1948)	1912-1914
LeRoy Franklin Borrowman (c1885-1957)	1930-1932
K. G. Bowyer (?-1961)	1961
Thomas Boyd	1921-1930
John Bredin	1876
E. A. Brotman	1943-1950
Ernest A. Brotman	1967-1971
Alexander Brown	1877-1879
George Brown	1884
William Brydon (1847-1930)	1883
James Burridge (1841-1912)	1883
Alfred W. Burrows	1877
Alexander Calder (1842-1936)	1892-1893
Joshua Calloway (1830-1921)	1884, 1886-1891
John Robson Cameron (1845-1907)	1874-1875, 1882-1883
Colin Howell Campbell (1859-1914)	1889
Christopher Campbell (1865-1931)	1900-1907
George Huestis Campbell (1855-1928)	1885-1886
Stan Carrick	1953-1954, 1956-1957
George Frederick Carruthers (1846-1918)	1885, 1892-1894, 1900-1901
Edward Cass (1849-1932)	1909-1911
Benjamin Elswood Chaffey (1859-1953)	1894-1897, 1901-1902
Saul Mark Cherniack	1959-1960
Frank Leslie Chester (1901-1966)	1947-1950
C. C. Chisholm	1926-1927
D. Chisholm	1956-1957
Gordon Campbell Chown (1922-2002)	1952-1955
Willoughby Clark	1875
Leonard Harold Claydon (1915-1971)	1961-1968, 1969-1971
Isaac Cockburn (1841-1927)	1918-1919
John Wesley Cockburn (1856-1924)	1891-1892, 1901-1906
Elias George Conklin (1845-1901)	1877-1880
Leslie Cooney	1941-1942
Francis Evans Cornish (1831-1878)	1876, 1878
Garnet Coulter (1882-1975)	1937-1942
James Arthur Coulter (1916-2005)	1959-1960
James Cowan (1914-1997)	1955-1958
Thomas Cowan	1899
Frederick John Charles Cox (1860-1939)	1904-1909
George Craig (c1841-1915)	1895-1896
Frederick Walter Crawford (1889-1967)	1955-1964
Joseph Cropo	1965-1971
Henry Samuel Crotty (1843-1923)	1885
George Reading Crowe (1852-1924)	1885, 1912-1916
Wilhem Alexander Cuddy (1890-1945)	1931-1932
H. Currie	1889
Mark Harold Danzker (1902-1995)	1960-1968
A. T. Davidson	1906-1907
Frederick Harvey Davidson (1865-1935)	1912-1916, 1920-1929, 1932-1933, 1935
Matthew Davis	1875
A. Dawson	1892-1894
Edwin Doidge	1881
William Douglas (1878-1963)	1921-1922
William Gregg Douglas (1863-1936)	1908-1911
Edward Lancaster Drewry (1851-1940)	1883-1884
Thomas Dunlop	1877
Robert Durward (1885-1970)	1925-1926, 1928-1931
David J. Dyson	1897-1899
Arthur F. Eden (c1852-?)	1879
William Thomas Edgecombe (1868-?)	1916-1917
Arni Eggertsson (1873-?)	1907-1908, 1917
D. M. Elcheshen	1938
Magnus Eliason (1911-2005)	1969-1971
Ernest J. Enns	1961-1968
Seymour James Farmer (1878-1951)	1928-1929
Taras Dempster Ferley (1882-1947)	1932-1933
Gordon Richard Fines (1911-1990)	1954-1960, 1967-1971
Moses Finkelstein (1873-1939)	1905-1906
A. H. Fisher	1948-1949
George Fisher (1862-1922)	1918-1921
Joseph Fletcher	1888-1890
Thomas Flye (1874-1943)	1922-1943
William Gomez da Fonseca (1823-1905)	1874-1878, 1880
Martin “Joe” Forkin Jr. (1899-1962)	1935-1951, 1961-1962
Mark Fortune (1847-1912)	1879-1881, 1883
Frank Oliver Fowler (1861-1945)	1908-1922
A. Frederickson	1892
Henry Fry (1859-1933)	1898-1901, 1904-1905
James Cunningham Gibson (1855-?)	1903-1908
Thomas Gilroy (1848-1905)	1891-1894
John Girdlestone Glassco (1879-1948)	1945-1946
Paul W. Goodman (1905-1959)	1954-1959
James Robert Gowler (1858-1920)	1907-1912
Colwell Esson “Charlie” Graham (1886-1959)	1946-1951
Herbert Gray (1866-1924)	1911-1924
Morris A. Gray (1887-1966)	1931-1942
William Grundy (1850-1925)	1887-1889
Cecil Herbert Gunn (1892-1941)	1932-1935
John Hacket	1875
Ernest Eskil Hallonquist (1899-1952)	1943-1952
Lillian Margaret Travers Hallonquist (1901-1985)	1953-1971
George Henry Ham (1847-1926)	1883-1884, 1887
Robert H. Hamlin (1877-?)	1918-1919
John G. Hargrave	1889
Peter Harkness (c1845-1896)	1886
John Gurzon Harvey (1906-1970)	1945-1970
James Graham Harvey (1840-1923)	1883, 1899-1906
Abram Albert Heaps (1885-1954)	1917-1925
J. B. Henderson	1893-1894
William Hespeler (1830-1921)	1876, 1878
Hilda Hesson (1883-1968)	1940-1947
John Higgins (1807-1884)	1874
Terrance John Hind (1920-2007)	1962-1965
Charles Hislop (1841-1919)	1896-1897
Egbert Douglas Honeyman (1886-1969)	1929-1938
John W. Horne	1898-1901, 1904-1905
A. Hume	1917-1918
Elisha Frederick Hutchings (1855-1930)	1887-1888, 1894-1895
Samuel Jacob Jackson (1848-1942)	1877-1878, 1880
W. A. James	1924-1925
Richard Willis Jameson (1851-1899)	1892-1895
Edward W. Jarvis (?-1894)	1876
H. Jones	1920-1927
Lyman Melvin Jones (1843-1917)	1886
Charles William Nassau Kennedy (1866-?)	1894-1899
S. S. Kennedy	1928-1929
Jessie Kirk (?-1965)	1921-1922
Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)	1941-1942
William N. Kolisnyk (1887-1967)	1927-1930
James Gerald Latimer (1842-1927)	1901-1906
John Osborne LeCappellain (1854-1925)	1881
Ernest Tennyson Leech (1876-1961)	1923-1930
Alexander Robert Leonard (1869-1942)	1922-1929
Lansing M. Lewis (1854-1927)	1889
D. M. Lineham	1915-1916
Alexander Logan (1841-1894)	1874-1878
W. J. Long	1913-1916
W. B. Lowe	1929-1930, 1933-1936
Thomas Lusted	1875-1876
William H. Lyon (c1833-1897)	1878
Alexander Macdonald (1844-1928)	1887-1888
Kenneth Nathaniel L. McDonald (1851-1905)	1884
Ronald C. MacDonald (1857-1918)	1909-1914
Hugh Mackenzie (1884-1949)	1939-1940
Kenneth Mackenzie	1889-1890
Allan L. MacLean	1918-1919
George P. MacLeod (1893-?)	1951-1952
Nick Malanchuk	1970-1971
Robert Allison Cayne Manning (1878-1929)	1907-1908
Edward Daniel Martin (1856-?)	1898-1899
John B. Mather (c1846-1892)	1890-1891
Thomas Graham Mathers (1859-1927)	1898-1899
Ralph Maybank (1890-1965)	1930-1931
Archibald A. McArthur (1845-1912)	1906-1908
Alexander McArthur	1879-1880
David Graham McBain (1831-1897)	1883
Peter McCalman	1906-1907
James H. McCarthy (1863-?)	1902-1903
Alexander McCharles	1904-1905
William Forsythe McCreary (1855-1904)	1884, 1895-1896
Maude J. McCreery	1950-1957
Thomas McCrossan (1834-1927)	1883
John Stewart McDiarmid (1882-1965)	1926
Malcolm McDiarmid	1958-1959
Duncan McDonald	1886-1889
Stuart McDonald	1884-1885
Horace McDougall (1846-1915)	1878, 1891
William “Bill” McGarva (1906-1991)	1961-1968
Howard V. McKelvey (c1911-1958)	1947-1958
John A. McKerchar (1862-?)	1921-1934
Daniel McLean (1868-1950)	1907-1910, 1921-1927, 1931-1932, 1935-1942
James McLenaghan	1874-1875
Alexander McLennan (1851-1921)	1913-1919
Grant McLeod	1962-1963, 1965-1966
Lendrum McMeans (1859-1941)	1909-1910
Alexander McMicken (1837-1916)	1875, 1881-1882, 1890-1891
H. G. McMicken	1876-1877
W. W. McMillan	1881-1882
James M. McGregor McNabb	1882
Archibald McNee (1845-1925)	1877, 1886
George Duncan MacVicar (1846-1889)	1883
Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875-1952)	1934-1940
Charles Midwinter (1851-1939)	1908-1912
M. H. Miller	1887
William Ryde Milton (1871-1959)	1909-1916
John Fletcher Mitchell (1862-?)	1897-1900
Robert E. Moffatt	1965-1967
Albert Monkman (1850-1918)	1881-1882
Christopher C. Montgomery (1852-1902)	1878, 1880-1881, 1883
Edwin D. Moore	1886
John Byron More	1874, 1877-1882
Henry Cyrus “Harry” Morrison (?-?)	1937-1948
Robert Muir (1850-1908)	1892
Max Mulder (1924-2001)	1969-1971
David Adrian Mulligan (1893-1981)	1944-1945, 1949-1950, 1953-1954, 1956, 1958-1967
Robert Mulvey	1874
Stewart Mulvey (1834-1908)	1883-1888
J. G. Munroe (1873-?)	1911-1916
Llewelyn Arthur Nares (1860-1939)	1893
William Newton	1906-1908
J. S. Nicholson	1892
Thomas Nixon (1823-1904)	1883
Henry Oelkers (1902-1963)	1933-1934
John O’Hare (1876-1964)	1921-1929
David Orlikow (1919-1998)	1951-1958
William J. Ovens	1882-1883
J. Fred Palmer	1927-1930
Paul Parashin	1959-1971
Alfred Pearson (1850-1921)	1885-1886
John Henry Pearson	1880
Jacob Penner (1880-1968)	1934-1940, 1943-1952, 1954-1961
James Penrose (1845-1918)	1886-1887
John Petley	1940-1941
T. G. Phillips	1885
Alexander Polson (1840-1905)	1887-1888
Samuel Polson	1884
Joseph Armour Potter	1908-1912
Alfred Henry Pulford (1865-1937)	1906-1907, 1917-1921, 1923-1928
John Queen (1882-1946)	1916-1921
Slaw Rebchuk (1907-1996)	1950-1971
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	1936, 1939-1941
James Rice	1877
Cecil Rice-Jones (1881-1972)	1931-1936
Albert Elswood Richards (1848-1917)	1894-1896
Richard “Dickie” Arthur Rigg (1872-1964)	1914-1915
Robert Thomas Riley (1851-1944)	1887-1888, 1908-1909
David A. Ritchie (1855-1942)	1902-1903
A. J. Roberts	1930-1931
E. Robinson	1919-1920
Finlay P. Roblin	1876
Donald Andrew Ross (1857-1937)	1889-1893, 1899-1900
I. M. Ross	1895-1896
William R. Ross	1880-1881
John Russell (c1850-1905)	1901-1904
Thomas Ryan (1849-1937)	1885-1888
Alfred Argue Ryley (1861-1932)	1931-1932
J. V. Samson	1960-1961
Henry “Harry” Sandison (1861-1942)	1905-1906
Richard A. Sara	1937-1944
A. Scoble	1917
Henry Baird “Hank” Scott (1898-1972)	1943-1958
Thomas Scott (1841-1915)	1874
William Scraba (1907-1971)	1941-1946
George Edward Sharpe (1908-1985)	1947-1954
Thomas Sharpe (1866-1929)	1900-1903
Robert James Shore (1883-1952)	1910-1914, 1922-1928
Charles Edward Simonite (1879-1973)	1930-1933, 1936-1955
James Simpkin (1875-1946)	1923-1946
William B. Simpson (1877-1952)	1915-1917, 1919-1934
Dugald Sinclair	1875, 1877
Albert Skaletar	1913-1917
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	1935, 1937-1938
Daniel Smith	1890-1891
John Kerr Sparling (1872-1941)	1917-1922
John Tully “Jock” Speirs (1860-1925)	1899-1900
C. H. Spence	1959-1961
George B. Spencer (1812-1886)	1885
J. C. Sproule	1893-1896
Jack St. John (1906-1965)	1944-1953
Robert Ashley Steen (1933-1979)	1971
Warren J. Steen (1940-2009)	1970-1971
T. Stefanik	1912-1913
J. Stepnuk	1942-1949
Hugh Leonard Stevens (1922-2001)	1958-1959
Lloyd Cleworth Stinson (1904-1976)	1943-1944, 1964-1971
M. W. Stobart	1934-1939
Andrew Strang (1849-1913)	1874, 1881
Robert Strang (1833-1900)	1878-1881
James Stuart (1853-1925)	1897
John Godfrey Sullivan (1863-1938)	1920-1927
William Sumner	1886
Donald Sutherland	1882-1883
Donovan Swailes (1892-1984)	1960-1969
Herbert Swinford	1874
Robert Tremaine Taft (1904-1990)	1968-1971
Peter Stanley Taraska (1907-1984)	1951-1962
Thomas William Taylor (1852-1924)	1889-1891
Edith Irene Tennant (1898-1989)	1958-1967
William B. Thibadeau	1874
Frederick George Thompson (1886-1972)	1936-1943
Inez Trueman	1968-1969
Alexander Turk (1906-1988)	1963-1964
John Villiers	1875-1876
J. J. Vopni	1917-1918
Alan C. Wade	1963-1964, 1966-1971
Frank Wagner	1952-1953, 1955-1958
Sampson Walker (1843-1933)	1891
John James Wallace (1865-1936)	1910-1915
John Wells	1902-1903
George Henry West (1853-1906)	1892-1893
June Alwyn Westbury (1921-2004)	1970-1971
J. L. Wiginton	1917-1920
J. Willoughby	1908-1911
Charles Hurst Wilson (1861-1924)	1897-1898
George M. Wilson	1881-1884
Horace Wilson (1848-c1903)	1895-1899
John T. Wilson	1890-1891
R. A. Wilson	1883
Thomas Wilson	1907-1908
Charles W. Wishart	1884
Isadore “Issy” Wolch (1908-2006)	1963-1968
Joseph Wolf	1890
Alexander Wood	1886
Daniel David Wood (1859-1925)	1901, 1903-1904
Archibald Francis Wright (1842-1912)	1874-1876, 1879-1880
James A. Wright	1882
R. Wyatt	1892-1893
James R. Wynne	1904-1907
David Young (1848-1887)	1879
George H. Young	1885
Joseph Zuken (1912-1986)	1962-1971

Board of Control (1907-1918):

The Board of Control, established in 1907, dealt with all financial matters and generally managed the affairs of the City until it was abolished by referendum in December 1918.

Board Member	Term
J. W. Astley	1916
J. W. Baker	1907-1908
John Wesley Cockburn (1856-1924)	1907-1918
William Gregg Douglas (1863-1936)	1912-1913
William Sanford Evans (1869-1949)	1908
William Corston Watt Garson (1856-1911)	1907
Charles Frederick Gray (1879-1954)	1917-1918
James Graham Harvey (1840-1923)	1907-1912
James Gerald Latimer (1842-1927)	1908
Archibald A. McArthur (1845-1912)	1909-1912
Frederick Joseph Gustin McArthur (1874-?)	1913-1915
Daniel McLean (1868-?)	1913-1914
Charles Midwinter (1851-1939)	1913-1915
Arthur W. Puttee (1868-1957)	1917-1918
R. J. Shore	1915-1916
John James Wallace (1865-1936)	1916-1918
Richard Deans Waugh (1868-1938)	1909-1911

Police Chiefs (1874-present):

Term	Police Chief
1874-1875	John S. Ingram (1853-1905)
1875-1887	David B. Murray (1844-1908)
1887-1911	John C. McRae (1858-1921)
1911-1919	Donald MacPherson (1875-1954)
1919-1934	Christopher H. Newton (1871-1953)
1934-1947	George Smith (1882-1963)
1947-1953	Charles MacIver (1887-1973)
1954-1965	Robert Tremaine Taft (1904-1990)
1965-1970	George Sydney Blow (1909-1994)
1970-1981	Norman MacGregor Stewart (1916-1998)
1981-1984	Kenneth Johnston
1984-1992	Herbert B. Stephen
1992-1996	J. B. Dale Henry
1996-1998	David A. Cassels
1998-2007	Jack Ewatski
2007-?	Keith McCaskill

Fire Chiefs (1882-present):

Term	Fire Chief
1882-1889	William Orme McRobie (1838-1908)
1889-1895	William “Billy” Code (1848-1940)
1895-1899	Edward Herbert Rodgers (1857-1950)
1899-1928	John Ernest Buchanan (1862-1938)

Historic Sites:

Mayors of St. Boniface (1883-1971)

History in Winnipeg Street Names

Sources:

“Speaker’s ruling sparked brief outbreak of violence in Winnipeg 98 years ago,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1971, page 18.

We thank the City of Winnipeg Archives for providing a list of city councillors from 1874 to 1971.

This gallery was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 22 April 2013