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This municipality was supposedly named by Major Adoniram Cates of Napinka after his daughter but it was incorporated four years before Brenda Cates was born, in 1888. Cates took an active role in the incorporation of the municipality when rearrangement of the old RM of Medora became necessary. The original Rural Municipality of Brenda was combined into a new, larger RM of Winchester between 1883 and 1890.
Present Status
Municipality of Brenda-Waskada (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Brenda (22 December 1883)
Amalgamated with Waskada (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Constituent Communities
Land Area (square km)
766.00
Year
Total
1891
716
1901
1754
1911
2270
1921
2088
1931
2292
1941
2007
1951
1590
1956
1501
1961
1409
1966
1280
1971
1095
1976
976
1981
852
1986
906
1991
801
1996
726
2001
616
2006
549
2011
469
Term
Reeve
1883-1888
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1888-1889
John Salisbury
1889-1890
Adoniram Cates (1842-1904)
1890-1900
?
1900-1902
William Somerville
1902-1905
C. Samway
1905-1909
Alexander Innes
1909-1910
Duncan Stuart McLeod (1854-1933)
1910-1912
T. M. Kennedy
1912-1917
James R. Gervin
1917-1925
Peter Spence
1925-1927
Maurice E. Hartry
1927-1928
Peter Spence
1928-1931
Maurice E. Hartry
1931-1935
Peter Spence
1935-1945
Maurice E. Hartry
1945-1949
H. J. Wallace
1949-1953
H. H. Barnes
1953-1973
H. J. Wallace
1973-1980
Lloyd Emerson Cassan (1912-1996)
1980-1986
William George “Bill” Brigden (1929-2008)
1986-1995
Henry Voth
1995-2001
John Dickinson
2001-2014
Duncan B. Stewart (1932-2024)
2015-?
See Brenda-Waskada
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Brenda.
Brenda (2001) |
Goodlands: West of the Turtle Mountain, 1670-1970. Goodlands United Church, 1970. Manitoba Legislative Library, F5649.G543.
Bridging Brenda: The History of Brenda Municipality and Area by Brenda History Committee, 1990.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 November 2024
