Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dominion Post Office Building / Fallout Reporting Post EE32 (111 Broadway Street South, Deloraine, Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester)

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Postmasters | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The brick post office building on Broadway Street South in Deloraine, in the Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester, was built in 1930. A walled-off section of its basement was developed in the early 1960s as a radiation monitoring station for the federal government known as Fallout Reporting Post EE32.

Postmasters

Period	Postmasters
1882-?	George Frederick Newcomb (1840-1907)
?-1910	James MacPherson Cavers (c1851-1910)
1910-1941	Frances Jane Cavers (1860-?)
1941-1944	Robert Cavers (1880-1944)
1944-1947	Prudence Virgie Lagron
1947-1960	Charles Hibbert Main (1896-1970)
1960	M. Ruth Wagner
1961-1986	Keith D. Maxwell

Photos & Coordinates

Dominion Post Office Building in Deloraine (circa 1948) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2017-0003 Dominion Post Office Building at Deloraine (August 2007) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Dominion Post Office Building at Deloraine (July 2018) Source: George Penner Cinder block walls of Fallout Reporting Post EE32 in the basement of the Dominion Post Office Building at Deloraine (September 2021) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Location (lat/long): N49.19184, W100.49419 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Death registration [James MacPherson Cavers], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank George Penner, Andrew Burtch, Grant Cassils, and Teresa Bell for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 17 February 2023

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