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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
1884-1885
James Downie
1886-1889
John Lorne Campbell (1856-1933)
1890
Goddard Frederick Gale (1858-1938)
1891-1892
A. M. Livingston
1893-1894
Alexander Trerice
1895-1898
George L. Dodds
1899-1900
Richard John Dobbyn (1850-1950)
1901
J. W. Henderson
1902-1904
John J. Anderson (1836-1916)
1905
William Kilkenny (1863-1919)
1906
John Williams (1860-1931)
1907-1908
Richard John Dobbyn (1850-1950)
1909-1913
S. D. Hannah
1914-1916
Robert Sterling
1917-1918
Jonas H. Shantz
1919
James Robson
1920-1921
James T. McCallum
1922-1928
William Allan
1929-1932
James T. McCallum
1933-1940
James Arthur Ross (1893-1958)
1941-1943
Thomas S. Loucks
1944-1968
G. C. Forster
1969-1975
A. E. Andrews
1976-1999
Ronald J. Renwick
2000-2005
Floyd Cheyne
2006
?
2007-2014
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: 13 July 2018
