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The municipality was named for John Donald Cameron, the Attorney General of Manitoba from 1896 to 1900.
Present Status
Municipality of Grassland (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Portion of Winchester
Incorporated as Municipality of Cameron (16 November 1896)
Amalgamation of Cameron, Hartney and Whitewater (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Albert, Arthur, Brenda, Glenwood, Morton, Pipestone, Sifton, Whitewater, Winchester
Constituent Communities
Argue, Emblem, Grande-Clairiere, Hartney, Lauder, Underhill, West Hall
Land Area (square km)
759.15
Year
Total
1891
600
1896
?
1901
2195
1911
1679
1921
1746
1931
1706
1941
1408
1951
1222
1956
1125
1961
1016
1966
941
1971
798
1976
730
1981
683
1986
613
1991
538
1996
537
2001
496
2006
433
2011
420
Term
Reeve
1896-1897
John M. Fee
1897-1902
Albert Henry (1857-1937)
1902-1905
John R. Shepherd (1850-?)
1905-1906
George Albert Coulter (1865-1915)
1906-1909
James W. Reid
1909-1911
J. A. Rollins
1911-1914
Angus McDonald
1914-1916
?
1916-1917
Nathaniel Barber (1854-1933)
1917-1943
George Morrison (1861-1945)
1943-1945
John Agnew
1945-1975
Arthur Galbraith
1975-1977
Joseph A. Agnew
1977-2002
Thomas Arthur “Art” Cowan (1932-2020)
2002-2014
Wayne Drummond
2015
See Grassland
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“New municipalities,” Manitoba Free Press, 14 November 1896, page 5.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 October 2022