Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dominion Post Office Building (Gretna, Municipality of Rhineland)

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Postmasters | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

This two-storey brick building at the southeast corner of Seventh Street and Hespeler Avenue in Gretna, in the Municipality of Rhineland, measuring 38 feet by 40 feet, was designed by Thomas William Fuller (1865-1951), Chief Architect for the Department of Public Works at Ottawa. It was built in 1929 at a cost of about $25,000.

Postmasters

Period	Postmasters
1884-1913	J. H. Hoffman
1913-1926	Edward Ellis
1926-1942	Charles Leslie Hayward (1900-1986)
1942-1945	Angenora Ellis “Nora” Hayward (1901-1994)
1945-1961	Charles Leslie Hayward (1900-1986)
1961	Mrs. Anne Kehler
1962-?	David M. Friesen

Photos & Coordinates

Gretna Post Office under construction (1929) Source: Benno and Mary Loewen Gretna Post Office under construction (1929) Source: Benno and Mary Loewen Gretna Post Office on opening day (1929) Source: Benno and Mary Loewen Gretna Post Office (February 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Gretna Post Office (August 2020) Source: George Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.00774, W97.56126 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

“Public buildings at Brandon and Gretna,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 February 1929, page 9.

Birth registration [Charles Leslie Hayward], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank Jeff Dyck and George Penner for providing photographs of the Gretna Post Office.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jordan Makichuk.

Page revised: 11 August 2023

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