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This municipality was named in commemoration of Reverend Albert Carman (1833-1917) on a suggestion by local resident Rodmond P. Roblin. Carman had been Chancellor of Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, where Roblin had been educated. He was also Bishop of the Episcopal Methodist Church in Canada (1874-1883) and General Superintendent of the Methodist Church in Canada (1883-1917). Known originally as Carman City, the City was later dropped.
Present Status
Town of Carman (1 December 1905)
Incorporation History
Village of Carman (3 November 1899)
Adjoining Municipalities
Land Area (square km)
4.31
Year
Total
1901
1439
1906
1530
1911
1271
1916
1426
1921
1591
1926
1385
1931
1418
1936
1364
1941
1455
1946
1555
1951
1867
1956
1884
1961
1930
1966
1922
1971
2030
1976
2272
1981
2408
1986
2500
1991
2567
1996
2704
2001
2831
2006
2781
2011
3027
2016
3164
2021
3114
Term
Mayor
1899-1902
Frank Williams (1862-1918)
1902-1904
T. J. Noble
1904-1905
John Henderson Haverson (1854-1932)
1905-1908
Thomas Kernighan
1908-1909
John Henderson Haverson (1854-1932)
1909-1911
John Richard Carthew (1863-1916)
Gavin McClure (1860-c1942)1911-1913
Herbert Edward Robison (1869-1933)
1913-1916
Frank Bridge (1868-1951)
1916-1918
H. Armstrong
1918-1921
John Alfred Munn (1882-1941)
1921-1924
Levi E. Eby
1924-1927
Albert Seymour Doyle (1865-1954)
1927-1930
S. J. Staples
1930-1939
Richard F. T. Greer (1888-?)
1939-1941
James I. Miller
1941-1945
A. Hardy
1945-1961
Frank C. Harris
1961-1967
Carol Leroy “Roy” Skelton (?-1988)
1967-1973
Sven Ivar Lerche Jensen (c1923-2008)
1973-1983
Dougald Leslie Fletcher (1906-1995)
1983-1986
Eric Lansky (1920-2004)
1986-1992
Robert Stewart “Bob” McKenzie (1938-2018)
1992-2006
R. Murray Rinn
2006-?
Robert J. “Bob” Mitchell
?-2018
?
2018-?
Brent Owen
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Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
We thank Kenneth Ingram for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 July 2024
