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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