Manitoba Communities: Assiniboia (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)
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This municipality is named for the Assiniboine River that flows beside it.
Present Status
City of Winnipeg (1 January 1972)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Assiniboia (1886)
Divided into Rural Municipality of Assiniboia, Rural Municipality of St. James (1921), Rural Municipality of Brooklands (1922)
Land Area (square km)
?
Population
Year
Total
1871
307
1881
400
1891
300
1896
811
1901
357
1911
681
1921
1024
1931
1675
1941
1968
1951
2663
1956
3577
1961
6088
1966
19389
Reeves
Term
Reeve
1886-1888
James Green (c1847-1892)
1888-1889
John William Tait
1890
John Taylor (1834-1925)
1891
?
1892-1900
Alexander Murray
1901-1903
Charles George Caron (c1851-1912)
1904
William Bourke (1863-1943)
1905
Alexander Murray
1906
G. G. Caron
1907-1909
Samuel Jacob Thompson (1845-1909)
1909-1911
George Thomas Chapman (1861-1940)
1912
Joseph J. McMillan
1913
William Mactavish Bannatyne (1864-1931)
1914
D. Shelmerdine
1915-1916
D. C. McColl
1917
Charles Holden
1918-1920
Charles Leonard Richardson (1884-1939)
1921-1922
James H. Black
1923-1924
John Lawson McBride (1879-1959)
1925-1932
John Bunting
1933-1939
John Salmon Lamont (1885-1964)
1940-1941
John B. Johnson
1942-1943
Eric D. Bullock
1944-1945
John B. Johnson
1946-1947
B. Findlay
1948-1959
Joseph Henry Sansome (1907-1983)
1960-1961
W. H. “Harry” Morgan (c1899-1961)
1962-1967
John Harold Belows (1914-2003)
1968
W. J. Turner
1969
Merged with St. James into St. James-Assiniboia
Secretary-Treasurers
Term
Secretary-Treasurer
1886-1934
Frank Ness (1860-1934)
Sources
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
“Assiniboia,” Manitoba Free Press, 20 December 1911, page 14.
“Looking backwards,” Manitoba Free Press, 5 January 1921, page 11.
“Assiniboia Mayor dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 16 September 1961, page 5.
We thank Jill Paskewitz for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 February 2019
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