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This two-storey brick building on Fifth Avenue North in Swan River was constructed in 1951 as a post office. It also housed the Station, Jail, and Sergeant's Residence of the local Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment. The police occupied the building until 1978 when a separate RCMP building was completed.
Period
Postmasters
1899-1918
Hugh Harley (1848-1918)
1918-1919
Edith Velma Harley (1886-?)
1919-1936
Samuel John Wray (1888-?)
1936
Miss Isabel Lucas
1937-1949
Edward Langrishe Cottingham (1894-1964)
1949-1954
William Donald Brown
1954-1958
J. M. Barker
1955-1967
Stephen A. Bugara
1958
J. F. Hinchcliffe
1958-1967
E. E. Wright
1967
J. F. Hinchcliffe
1967-1978
Stephen A. Bugara
1978-1988
A. F. House
Dominion Post Office Building at Swan River (April 2018)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N52.10706, W101.26930
denoted by symbol on the map above
Birth registration [Edith Velma Harley], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
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: 25 October 2020
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