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This village was named by a Canadian Pacific Railway survey crew when they found a large rack of elk antlers here.
Present Status
Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Village of Elkhorn (6 September 1905)
Amalgamated with Wallace and Woodworth (1 January 2015)Land Area (square km)
2.73
Year
Total
1906
525
1911
574
1916
538
1921
534
1926
549
1931
543
1936
535
1941
557
1946
592
1951
635
1956
673
1961
666
1966
575
1971
569
1976
527
1981
509
1986
534
1991
505
1996
514
2001
470
2006
461
2011
471
Term
Mayor
1906-1907
William Mair Cushing (1853-1925)
1908-1909
Charles R. Duxbury (?-1949)
1910-1911
James Smith McLeod (1868-?)
1912
Herbert J. Jones (1871-1966)
1913
John Harvey Miller (1851-1922)
1914-1916
Herbert J. Jones (1871-1966)
1917-1918
John Mooney (1871-1963)
1919
Rowland Henderson Brotherhood (1871-1952)
1920-1921
Charles Gardiner Webster (1879-1965)
1922
Wellington John Thompson (1870-1937)
1923-1924
G. T. Earle
1925-1926
Webster Talcott Clarke (1867-?)
1927-1929
Walter Davey (1870-1955)
1930-1935
Herbert J. Jones (1871-1966)
1936-1937
John Matheson McCorkindale (1879-1961)
1938-1947
Clarence Woods Johnston (1888-1949)
1948-1953
John William McLeod Thompson (1908-1986)
1954-1957
James Wallace Clarke (?-1966)
1958-1964
John J. Norris
1965-1968
J. H. Hennan (?-1975)
1968-1969
Frederick Joseph Simpson (1913-1969)
1970-1971
John L. Canart
1972-1979
William R. Bartley
1980
Ron Heritage
1981-1983
Ron R. Lund
1984-1986
Ron Heritage
1987-1995
Kenneth L. Rowan
1996-2001
Keith Orr
2002-2014
Roland Gagnon
2015
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Elkhorn.
Go here for a list of history books for Elkhorn.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
Steel and Grass Roots, 1882-1982: History of Elkhorn by Elkhorn and District Historical Society, 1982, pages 141-142.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 26 March 2017
