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This municipality was named for the Cypress River that flows nearby.
Present Status
Municipality of Glenboro-South Cypress (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of South Cypress (22 December 1883)
Adjoining Municipalities
Argyle, Cornwallis, Glenboro, Lorne, North Cypress, North Norfolk, Oakland, Riverside, Strathcona, Victoria
Constituent Communities
Land Area (square km)
1095.08
Year
Total
1891
1447
1896
2050
1901
1923
1911
1830
1921
1927
1931
1839
1941
1777
1951
1027
1956
1018
1961
946
1966
895
1971
838
1976
854
1981
855
1986
860
1991
862
1996
862
2001
821
2006
834
2011
838
Term
Reeve
1884-1887
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1888-1890
James Davidson
1891
?
1892
James Mitchell
1893
P. H. Dewart
1894
E. W. Dewart
1895
E. H. Dewart
1896-1897
William Lyall
1898-1900
R. H. Ferguson
1901-1902
Frederick Thomas Axford (1859-1935)
1903
W. H. Donaldson
1904-1905
L. McFadden
1906-1907
Jonas Christie
1908-1909
William McKenzie
1910-1911
Wesley Down
1912-1914
James Christie
1915-1916
James Lockhart
1917-1918
W. J. Ferguson
1919
T. A. Carson
1920-1921
F. A. Dewart
1922-1929
James Winter Cartmell (1867-1948)
1930-1932
H. N. Clark
1933-1937
R. B. Davidson
1938-1943
Osborne Malyon
1944-1947
G. J. Olafson
1948-1952
H. B. Donaldson
1953-1977
Martin Vertz (1904-1984)
1978-1983
Percy Shepherd
1984-1988
John R. Moore
1989-2014
Earl E. Malyon
2015
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Go here for a list of historic sites in South Cypress.
Go here for a list of history books for South Cypress.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 October 2018
