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This municipality was named for Prince Arthur (Duke of Connaught), later King Edward VII, who visited Canada in the early 1870s.
Present Status
Municipality of Two Borders (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Inchiquin
Rural Municipality of Arthur (22 December 1883)
Amalgamated with Albert and Edward (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Constituent Communities
Land Area (square km)
765.77
Year
Total
1891
660
1901
1485
1911
1854
1921
1588
1931
1793
1941
1396
1951
1266
1956
1207
1961
1116
1966
1015
1971
897
1976
862
1981
779
1986
722
1991
581
1996
528
2001
480
2006
440
2011
413
Term
Reeve
1883-1885
James Downie
1885-1889
John Lorne Campbell (1856-1933)
1889-1890
Goddard Frederick Gale (1858-1938)
1890-1892
A. M. Livingston
1892-1894
Alexander Trerice
1894-1898
George L. Dodds
1898-1900
Richard John Dobbyn (1850-1950)
1900-1901
J. W. Henderson
1901-1904
John J. Anderson (1836-1916)
1904-1905
William Kilkenny (1863-1919)
1905-1906
John Williams (1860-1931)
1906-1908
Richard John Dobbyn (1850-1950)
1908-1913
S. D. Hannah
1913-1916
Robert Sterling
1916-1918
Jonas H. Shantz
1918-1919
James Robson
1919-1921
James T. McCallum
1921-1928
William Allan
1928-1932
James T. McCallum
1932-1940
James Arthur Ross (1893-1958)
1940-1943
Thomas S. Loucks
1943-1968
G. C. Forster
1968-1975
A. E. Andrews
1975-1999
Ronald J. Renwick
1999-2005
Floyd Cheyne
2005-2006
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2006-2014
James P. Trewin
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Arthur.
Arthur (2001) |
Our First Century: Town of Melita and Municipality of Arthur, Melita-Arthur History Committee, 1983, Manitoba Legislative Library F5648.A78.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 September 2024
