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The site for Brandon was selected in 1881 with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway, taking its name from the fur trade post of Brandon House. The municipality was incorporated directly as a City.
Present Status
City of Brandon (30 May 1882)
Adjoining Municipalities
Land Area (square km)
76.89
Year
Total
1891
3778
1901
5620
1906
10408
1911
13839
1916
15215
1921
15397
1926
16443
1931
17082
1936
16461
1941
17383
1946
17551
1951
20598
1956
24796
1961
28166
1966
29981
1971
31150
1976
34901
1981
36242
1986
38708
1991
38567
1996
39175
2001
39716
2006
41511
2011
46061
2016
48883
2021
51313
Term
Mayor
1882
Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)
1882-1883
William Winter (1841-1914)
1883-1884
Thomas Mayne Daly (1852-1911)
1884-1886
James Allan Smart (1858-1942)
1886-1887
Charles Adams (1858-1931)
1887-1889
Alexander Cumming Fraser (1849-1944)
1889-1891
Andrew Kelly (1852-1930)
1891-1894
John S. McDiarmid (1846-1936)
1894-1896
James Allan Smart (1858-1942)
1896-1898
Ezekiel Evans (1859-1930)
1898-1900
John S. McDiarmid (1846-1936)
1900-1902
Alexander Cumming Fraser (1849-1944)
1902-1904
Robert Hall (1849-1911)
1904-1906
John William Fleming (1868-1928)
1906-1908
Stephen Emmett Clement (1867-1947)
1908-1910
Henry Lamont Adolph (1862-1940)
1910-1913
John William Fleming (1868-1928)
1913-1914
Joseph Henry Hughes (1857-1917)
1914-1918
Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1918-1919
Alfred Reginald McDiarmid (1878-1944)
1919-1921
George Dinsdale (1887-1943)
1921-1931
Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1931-1933
Edmund Fotheringham (1879-1960)
1933-1937
Harry William Cater (1869-1945)
1937-1943
Frederick Henry Young (1887-1957)
1943-1945
Leslie Hill McDorman (1879-1966)
1945-1951
Franklin Truman Williamson (1897-1960)
1951-1955
James Albert Creighton (1905-1990)
1955-1957
Stuart Duncan Schultz (1892-1974)
1957-1961
James Albert Creighton (1905-1990)
1961-1969
Stephen Adolph Magnacca (1902-1980)
1969-1974
William Keith “Bill” Wilton (1919-1992)
1974-1977
Elwood Clinton Gorrie (1915-2002)
1977-1978
Gilbert Doud Box (1912-1981)
1978-1989
Kenneth John Burgess (1928-2005)
1989-1997
Richard N. “Rick” Borotsik
1997-2002
Reginald C. “Reg” Atkinson
2002-2010
David K. “Dave” Burgess
2010-2014
Shari Decter Hirst
2014-2022
Rick Chrest
2022-?
Jeff Fawcett
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Councillor
Term(s)
Charles Adams (1858-1931)
1884, 1886
Henry Lamont “Harry” Adolph (1862-1940)
1905-1908
Bob Alexander
1950-1951
Mrs. M. Alexander
1887
F. Anderson
1978-1988
J. Anderson
1886-1887
G. B. Angus
1883
J. Armstrong
1978-1980
R. K. Armstrong
1965
J. Arthur
1885
Thomas Terrant Attinison
1888
B
A. Badgley
1975-1977
? Bain
1929-1930
C. Balmer
1959-1960
W. J. Barclay
1885
V. Barletta
2002-2009
T. Bass
1952-1953
Shawn Berry
2010-2023
John “Errol” Black (1939-2012)
1998-2009
M. Blight
2002-2013
William H. Boreskie (1896-1980)
1938-1959, 1961-1964
Richard N. “Rick” Borotsik
1978-1984
William Bourke
1913-1920
S. M. Bower
1882
Gilbert Doud Box (1912-1981)
1960-1969
B. Boyd
1975-1980
J. Brereton
1971-1974
J. H. Brock
1882, 1884
J. Brockest
1970-1974
B. Brooking
1975-1977
G. Brown
1967-1968
John A. Brown
1889
L. Brown
2002-2005
R. Brown
2014-2020
L. Buchan
1882
Alfred Edward Bullock (1871-1957)
1915-1918
James M. Burchill
1906
? Burchill
1926
David K. “Dave” Burgess
1998-2001
E. Burke
1886
J. F. Burke
1885
Anthony Daniel “Tony” Burneski (1909-1993)
1944-1969
Alex Burns
1886
C
? Cairns
1929-1930
Drew Caldwell
1992-1998
A. D. Cameron
1883-1885
Hugh R. Cameron (1854-1915)
1892-1894
Shaun Cameron
2018-2023
J. H. Campbell
1958-1961
M. Campbell
1989-2009
N. Campbell
1969-1970
I. E. Carey
1920-1921
N. N. Carruthers
1902
D. W. Cater
1913
Henry William “Harry” Cater (1869-1945)
1909-1911, 1913
R. Cayer
1975-1977, 1986-1988
J. Chaboyer
2010-2021
Rick Chrest
1995-2005
Ernest Lisle Christie (1864-1934)
1895-1896
John A. Christie (1840-1920)
1892
Francis Joseph “Frank” Clark (1860-1953)
1907-1912, 1934-1941
? Clark
1935, 1937, 1939, 1941
F. Clark
1971-1974
John Clark
1911
David E. Clement (1874-1938)
1924-1927, 1930-1935
Robert Addison “Bob” Clement (1911-2005)
1955-1958
Stephen Emmett Clement (1867-1947)
1906
? Clement
1884
W. L. Clendening
1921-1922
George Robson Coldwell (1858-1924)
1888-1908
George Benjamin Coleman (1865-1943)
1908-1923, 1925
T. H. Collister
1964-1965
A. Cook
1960-1961
F. C. Courtice
1955-1956
Flora Cruickshank Cowan (1902-1986)
1954-1969
James Edward Crane (1855-1927)
1926-1927
Robert Crawford (1862-?)
1921-1925
James Albert “Jimmy” Creighton (1905-1990)
1946, 1948-1949, 1962
A. J. Crouch
1927-1929
William Crouch
1911
M. Crystal
1954-1958
Barry Cullen
2014-2023
John Ferguson Cumming (1873-1937)
1918-1919
Joseph Benson Curran (1855-1935)
1911-1915, 1917-1925, 1927-1928
W. J. Currie
1926-1927
D
H. R. Davis
1928-1931, 1933-1934
B. Deacon
1992-1994
Kris Desjarlais
2014-2023
J. Dickinson
1885
George Dinsdale (1887-1943)
1918-1919, 1924-1927
J. M. Donovan
1957-1958
? Donnelly
1929-1932
Samuel C. Doran
1907-1908
William Dowling
1909-1910
? Durst
1884
P. E. Durst
1895
R. Dyck
1978-1983
E
Robert Edgar
1890-1891
? Edworthy
1947-1948
P. Egan
1978-1980
George William Epton (1890-1952)
1923-1925
Alvin Austin Evans (1879-1953)
1912-1914
Ezekiel Evans (1859-1930)
1882-1883, 1890, 1913-1914
Richard Dermot Evans (1852-1923)
1904-1907
F
Jeff Fawcett
2010-2013, 2015-2021
R. Ficek
1989-1994
? Fisher
1915-1916
K. Fitzpatrick
1999-2001, 2006-2009
Alexander Fleming (1841-1897)
1887
John William Fleming (1868-1928)
1895-1899, 1910
H. G. Fletcher
1914-1917
William Elyak Flimmerfelt
1889
? Forsyth
1937-1938
Loftus Morton Fortier (1858-?)
1882-1883
F. Foster
1970-1971
Edmund “Ed” Fotheringham (1879-1960)
1917-1918, 1927-1928
S. Frangi
2021
H. Fraser
1973-1974
G
H. Gibson
1968-1971
James S. Gibson
1891-1892
J. Giddings
1912-1915, 1931-1934
Elwood Clinton Gorrie (1915-2002)
1972-1974
H. Gould
1940-1943
Arnold Grambo
1984-1994
J. G. Grant
1934-1936
John Alfred George Grantham (c1865-1923)
1917-1921
Robert Grantham
1922
Wally Green
1950-1953, 1959
G. Guentert
1981-1983
O. Gusdal
1966
H
Benjamin Jones Hales (1868-1945)
1920-1923
Abraham Leonard Hall (1863-1927)
1919-1920
Nicholas John Halpin
1888-1889, 1893-1894, 1896, 1901
V. Hamilton
2014-2015
John Hanbury (1855-1928)
1886, 1890-1892, 1899-1900
William Lyon Harcourt (1846-1921)
1905-1906
Arthur Augustus “Art” Harris (1903-1982)
1948-1957
J. Harwood
1986-1990, 2006-2017
J. Henderson
1972-1974
M. Hersack
1976-1980
Greg Hildebrand
2022-2023
? Hill
1928
W. H. Hooper
1894
J. W. Horne
1882
Thomas R. Hornor
1903-1904
P. Hudy
1975-1977
E. Hughes
1884-1886
I. Hughes
1887
? Hughes
1928-1931, 1936-1937
Joseph Henry Hughes (1857-1917)
1909-1912
I
Len J. Isleifson
2010-2013
J
G. Jamieson
1975-1977
Arthur Page Jeffery (1865-1942)
1906-1910
D. Jessiman
1995-2009
? Johnson
1938-1939
James A. Johnston
1883-1885
C. H. Johnston
1948, 1950-1954
K
Heather Karrouze
2022-2023
James C. Kavanagh (1850-1923)
1884-1885
Joseph Henry “Joe” Kay (1947-2023)
1989-1992, 1994-1998
John Keddy
1893-1894
J. Kelleher
1984-1985
Andrew Kelly (1852-1930)
1887-1889
Thomas Edward Kelly
1887-1889, 1894-1905
J. D. Kennedy
1921-1926
D. Kille
1989-1997
L. Kindrat
1984-1985
? Kirkcaldy
1907
James Kirkcaldy (1866-1957)
1934-1952
R. Kitchen
1958-1961
Hy Koester
1911-1912
M. Kotyk
1967-1971, 1978-1980
L
C. A. Larkin
1884-1885
T. Lee
1884
R. Lemieux
1992-1994
Frank Cecil Lissaman (1870-1954)
1932-1933
? Little
1986-1988
M. Lockhart
1882
Francis Reginald Longworth (1891-1955)
1929
J. LoRegio
2014-2020
Bruce Luebke
2018-2023
T. Lumbard
1998-2001
E. Lyons
1969-1974
M
L. MacKenzie
1995-1997
M. MacKenzie
1956-1957
Henry Fitzgibbon “Harry” Maley (1869-?)
1901-1906
A. Martin
1977, 1981-1983
R. Martin
1981-1997
William John McComb (1861-1935)
1912-1913
James Collus “Jim” McCrae
1984-1985, 2006-2012
Henry Oliver McDiarmid (1882-1952)
1919-1920
I. McDiarmid
1887
John McDiarmid
1891
John McDonald
1913-1914
Leslie Hill McDorman (1879-1966)
1940-1943
N. A. McDowell
1944-1949
P. McDuffe
1970
James D. McGregor
1890-1891
Alex McIlvride
1896-1901
Duncan McKelorie
1888
A. G. McKenzie
1966-1967
J. D. McKenzie
1912
Murdoch McKenzie (1862-1934)
1897, 1904-1909, 1911, 1913-1921, 1923-1926
Philip McKenzie
1886, 1897-1898
Alexander B. McLeod
1907-1908
W. McLeod
1975-1977, 1981-1983
D. Melcosky
1989-1991
M. Melnyk
1975-1988
William H. Merritt
1892-1894
Peter Middleton (1839-1920)
1906-1908
? Mitchell
1932-1933
J. Mitchell
1962-1973
S. Montague
2010-2013
? Moor
1884
G. Munro
1887
D. Munroe
1981-1991
John Murray
1890
N
Frederick Nation (1861-1955)
1899-1902
J. B. Neill
1960
P. Neufeld
1966-1968
H. Nikkel
1965-1970
O
William Vincent Oglesby (1884-1965)
1924-1935
Robert H. O'Hara
1911-1912
P
Glen Parker
2016-2022
William Linton Parrish (1860-1949)
1897
James Parsley
1888
D. Paterson
1998-2009
Henry Lewis Patmore (1861-1946)
1915-1917, 1921-1927
Alexander Bayne “Sandy” Patterson (1885-1959)
1930-1943
Bertram Lyell “Ticker Taker” Patterson (1888-1963)
1929-1949, 1951-1956
James Patterson
1893-1894
L. Patterson
2014-2017
T. Penton
1964-1968
Thomas May Percival (1851-1936)
1905
Charles Pilling
1882-1883, 1889, 1897-1900
John Popkin
1944-1947
J. Purdie
1970-1974
Q
R
David Anson Reesor (1860-1940)
1893-1896
J. Reid
1984-1997
G. Rice
2002-2013
C. Ridgen
1972-1974
C. Roberts
2010-2013
John McLeod Robertson (1870-1941)
1922-1923
? Robertson
1926
J. C. Robinson
1885
M. Robinsong
1999-2001
W. M. Rose
1883
John D. Ross (1858-1927)
1909-1910
Gabriel Richard Rowe (1897-1968)
1962-1963
D. Rungay
1971
James Alexander Russell
1888-1892
S
Stuart Duncan Schultz (1892-1974)
1942-1955
D. Scott
1969
A. Shewan
1919-1920
Walter Henderson Shillinglaw (1864-1957)
1913-1914
J. M. Shurb
1959-1964
A. L. Sifton
1882-1884
D. Simpson
1962-1963
B. Smale
1998-2005
James Allan Smart (1858-1942)
1882-1883, 1894
? Smith
1884
? Smith
1938, 1944
? Smith
1986-1988
S. Smith
1995-1998
Harry Spafford (1888-1978)
1928-1945
Richmond Spencer
1892
F. S. Spiers
1939-1941
Jason Splett
2022-2023
J. Stewart
1886
K. Stewart
1885
R. G. Stewart
1965-1966
Isaiah Root Strome (1851-1942)
1898-1904
A. F. Sutherland
1895-1896
T
Tyson Tame
2022-2023
? Tennant
1936-1937
J. Thomassen
1972-1976
? Trench
1915-1916
Alexander “Alex” Trotter
1893-1894, 1901-1904
Beecham Trotter (1860-1934)
1914-1918
U
V
Alfred “Bert” Veale (1887-1960)
1948-1956
W
? Wade
1947
James Wade
1927-1928, 1946-1947
John Percy Wadge (1875-1951)
1911-1912
Benjamin D’Arcy Wallace (1861-1936)
1907-1910
Thomas Wastie
1890-1891
Dr. C. Webb
1957-1961
W. R. Webb
1935-1950, 1952-1954
David Solomon “Dave” Weiss (1913-2005)
1963-1965
Charles J. Whillier
1908-1910
Franklin Truman “Frank” Williamson (1897-1960)
1939-1943, 1945
? Wilson
1912
C. R. Wilson
1957-1959, 1961-1964
William Winter (1841-1914)
1882
George Winters
1882-1883
Joseph Edward Woodworth (1837-1889)
1883
M. Workman
1975-1983
X
Y
Frederick Henry Young (1887-1957)
1922-1924, 1928, 1931-1933, 1935-1937
Z
William Zink
1902-1903
Term
Police Chief
1882-1885
Archibald L. McMillan (1846-1885)
1886-1890
Peter C. Duncan
1890-1892
John Russell Foster (1853-1941)
1892-1905
James Kirkcaldy (1867-1957)
1905-1912
Watson Hartford Boyd (1860-?)
1912-1914
Edward George Berry (1879-1961)
1914-1919
John Esslemont (1868-1951)
1919-1923
Joseph Robson Hardy (1890-1966)
1923-1947
Harry Bernard Everett (1886-1947)
1947-1963
Thomas Henry “Harry” Collister (1898-1975)
1963-1970
Archibald Charles “Charlie” Goucher (1907-1979)
1970-1979
David Andrew McNamee (1920-2013)
1979-1988
Kenneth Robert “Ken” Elliott (1932-2017)
1989-1995
Brian Grant Parker Scott (1937-2010)
1995-2001
Richard “Dick” Scott
2001-2007
F. Richard Bruce
2007-2013
Keith J. Atkinson
2013-2017
Ian R. Grant
2017-2023
Wayne Balcaen
Term
Postmaster
?-1924
Thomas M. Percival (1851-?)
1925-?
William James Munn (1886-1936)
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410 Ninth Street
Brandon, Manitoba R7A 6A2
Telephone: 204-729-2296
Email: cityclerk@brandon.ca
Henderson’s Winnipeg and Brandon Directories, Henderson Directories Limited, Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Libraries.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
Obituary [Joseph Henry Kay], Memories Chapel.
We thank Sandy Jasper and Shaun Cameron for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Jason Woloski.
Page revised: 27 May 2024
