Manitoba Communities: Cornwallis (Rural Municipality)

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This municipality was named for a surveyor who worked in the Brandon area under CPR engineer Thomas Lafayette Rosser.

Present Status	Rural Municipality of Cornwallis (22 December 1883)
Incorporation History	Rural Municipality of Cornwallis (22 December 1883)
Adjoining Municipalities	Brandon, Elton, Glenboro-South Cypress, North Cypress-Langford, Oakland-Wawanesa, Souris-Glenwood, Whitehead
Constituent Communities	Chater, Cottonwoods, Sprucewoods
Land Area (square km)	500.88

Population

Year	Total
1891	1254
1901	1240
1911	1311
1921	1279
1931	1267
1941	1221
1951	3528
1956	3847
1961	4715
1966	5883
1971	5567
1976	3760
1981	3878
1986	4243
1991	4222
1996	4279
2001	3779
2006	4058
2011	4378
2016	4520

Reeves

Term	Reeve
1884	Charles Whitehead (1836-1919)
1885-1886	John Wright Sifton (1833-1912)
1887-1893	George Roddick (1831-1910)
1894-1901	George H. Halse
1902-1910	Allan Leslie (1858-1938)
1911-1915	William McKelvie
1916-1919	Walter W. Gerry
1920-1922	Andrew Tully Elder (1875-1945)
1923-1933	Allan Leslie (1858-1938)
1934-1945	A. P. Wilton
1946-1966	D. A. Birdsell
1967-1977	P. G. Marsden
1977-1983	Felix Valentine “Rusty” Weisgerber (1920-2010)
1984-1995	Peter William “Sonny” Evans (1924-2004)
1996-1998	Brian Plumb
1999-2006	D. J. “Scotty” McIntosh
2007-2008	Kurt Wasserberg
2009-2014	Reg Atkinson
2015-?	Heather Dalgleish

Memorable Manitobans

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Historic Sites

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History Books

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Maps

Sources

Municipal Memories: Municipality of Cornwallis, 1884-1984. Cornwallis Centennial Committee, 1984. Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.C67.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 26 March 2017