Manitoba Communities: Carberry (Town)

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This municipality was named by railwayman James J. Hill for Carberry Tower, the county seat of Lord Elphinstone in Scotland. Elphinstone was a director of the Canadian Pacific Railway at the time and was travelling with Hill on a railway inspection tour.

Present Status	Town of Carberry (27 July 1905)
Incorporation History	Village of Carberry (20 December 1889)
Adjoining Municipalities	North Cypress
Land Area (square km)	4.79

Population

Year	Total
1901	1023
1906	1111
1911	878
1916	931
1921	794
1926	833
1931	807
1936	778
1941	931
1946	857
1951	912
1956	1065
1961	1113
1966	1265
1971	1305
1976	1423
1981	1510
1986	1544
1991	1481
1996	1493
2001	1513
2006	1502
2011	1669
2016	1738
2021	1818

Mayors

Term	Mayor
1889-1890	Walter Wallace Ireland (1845-1917)
1890-1891	James Belfry Henderson (1859-1934)
1891-1892	Harry W. White
1892-1893	Matthew Wise
1893-1895	William Hunt
1895-1896	Duncan Pearson
1896-1897	T. D. Stickle
1897-1900	Noble Dickie (1854-1910)
1900-1902	Alexander E. May
1902-1904	William Walker (1850-?)
1904-1907	Dr. J. M. Eaton
1907-1909	Ben Stewart
1909-1911	James Wellington McCrae (1857-1930)
1911-1914	Gregory Barrett (1867-1952)
1914-1917	Harold Richmond Hooper (1872-1955)
1917-1918	Benjamin Wilson Caldwell (1880-1968)
1918-1919	John Balfour
1919-1920	Samuel W. Taylor
1920-1926	William A. Banister
1926-1927	Wilfred C. Balfour
1927-1928	James Wellington McCrae (1857-1930)
1928-1937	James L. Cowie (1875-1946)
1937-1945	Reuben James Waugh (1875-1945)
1945-1947	Benjamin Wilson Caldwell (1880-1968)
1947-1951	Leonard Murray
1951-1971	A. R. Calvert
1971-1977	Arthur L. MacKay
1977-1983	L. William Waters
1983-1992	Arthur H. Sear (?-2014)
1992-1998	Edith L. Anderson
1998-2006	Edward Drabyk
2006-2014	Wayne Blair
2014-2022	Stuart Olmstead
2022-?	Ray Muirhead

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Photos & Maps

Sources

The People of the Big Plain: Carberry, North Cypress 125th Anniversary. Carberry-North Cypress 125 History Book Committee, 2007. Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.C36.

Manitoba Gazette, 1887-1959. Manitoba Legislative Library.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 28 October 2022