Manitoba Communities: East Selkirk (Unincorporated Town)

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This municipality was incorporated as a Town by an Order-in-Council in 1882. The town operated until 1904 when it was unincorporated and its area rejoined the surrounding Rural Municipality of St. Clements.

Present Status

Unincorporated (8 February 1904)

Incorporation History

Town of East Selkirk (13 February 1883)
Rural Municipality of St. Clements (8 February 1904)

Mayors

Term

Mayor

1882-1883

R. J. Brown

1883-1888

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1888-1889

Arthur Doidge

1889-1904

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Sources

East Selkirk, Manitoba. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5649.E28 Eas]

“The Chicago of the Northwest,” Selkirk Journal, 19 May 1992, page 4.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Monica Ball.

Page revised: 26 March 2017