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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dominion Post Office Building (587 Second Avenue, Rivers, Municipality of Riverdale)
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Postmasters | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
This one-storey brick building on Second Avenue in Rivers was constructed in 1936 as a post office, still in use as of 2020.
Postmasters
Period
Postmasters
1908-1911
W. R. Head
1911-1939
Robert Nelson Dunsmore (1867-1949)
1939-1961
George Merwyn Henderson (1896-?)
1961
Miss Emily Margaret Frank
1962-1966
George R. Allen
1966
Miss Emily Margaret Frank
1966-1985
Wilbur Charles Barrett
1985-1986
Sylvia Maloney
Photos & Coordinates
Dominion Post Office Building at Rivers (June 2019)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.03105, W100.24022
denoted by symbol on the map above
Sources:
The Story of Rivers by Graham Franklin Barker, 1963, page 97.
Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 October 2020
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