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This municipality was named for the fur trade post of Upper Fort Garry.
Present Status
City of Winnipeg (1 January 1972)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Fort Garry (?)
Amalgamation of Assiniboia, Brooklands, Charleswood, East Kildonan, Fort Garry, North Kildonan, Old Kildonan, St. Boniface, St. James, St. Vital, Transcona, Tuxedo, West Kildonan, and Winnipeg (1 January 1972)Land Area (square km)
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Year
Total
1901
730
1911
1133
1921
2451
1931
3926
1941
4453
1951
8193
1956
13592
1961
17528
1966
21177
1971
26127
Term
Reeve
1912-1914
Robert Allison Cayne Manning (1878-1929)
1915-1916
Richard Hunter Young (1876-1965)
1917-1921
James Fulford Feilde (c1880-1970)
1922-1923
John Champion Collinson (1878-1934)
1924-1925
John Herbert Riley (1885-1960)
1926-1930
Frank Scott Fowler (1888-1955)
1931
Cecil Wood
1931-1935
Frank Campbell Cave (1885-1965)
1936-1945
Charles B. Johnston
1946-1953
Leslie Raymond “Ray” Fennell (1893-1986)
1954-1955
William Scott Neal (1914-1993)
1956-1959
R. Darwin Chase (1905-1979)
1960-1967
Leslie Raymond “Ray” Fennell (1893-1986)
1968-1971
Richard Alan “Dick” Wankling (1926-2004)
1972
Merged into Winnipeg
Councillor
Term(s)
J. A. Aitken
1956
? Barnes
1927-1929
William Beddington
1946-1949
J. F. Bishop
1933-1935
D. A. Boulden
1954-1956
W. Q. Burges
1917
Alexander Campbell
1951
Ted Campeau
1956, 1958-1961
Edward Carter
1917-1918
Edmond Champagne
1912-1915
R. Champagne
1924-1925
R. Darwin Chase (1905-1979)
1955
J. R. G. Cloutier
1955-1956, 1958-1969
? Cyr
1932-1933
John deJong
1941-1945
H. D. deMoissac
1934
Ernest Deneweth (1896-1953)
1929-1932
Wilfrid Joseph “Wilf” Ducharme (1917-1980)
1958-1963
A. Basile Dufort
1941-1943
Joseph Pierre Dumas (1875-1950)
1912-1916
A. T. Elders
1949-1950
W. S. Fairbrother
1954
J. F. Fielde
1915-1916
Donald Ross Fonger (1923-2006)
1960-1961
Alex D. Fraser
1945-1948
Rupert Roderick Fultz (1915-1988)
1952
Joseph E. Grandmont
1912-1921, 1924-1931
D. A. Grant
1968-1969
Mathurin Hervo
1919-1928
G. R. Hobson
1967-1969
A. M. Hopper
1955-1956, 1958-1959
J. B. Alphonse Houde
1944-1955
Robert Hunter
1950-1955
Elizabeth “Betty” Ireton (1921-2004)
1970-1977
Charles B. Johnston
1934-1935
W. J. Landreth
1951
Joseph N. Landry
1922-1923
? Landry
1932-1933
Michel Olivier Leclair
1912-1931
J. N. Arthur Leclaire
1934-1940
Gordon L. Leggo
1944-1945
G. W. Lyon
1958-1959
J. H. McCulloch
1923-1924
C. H. McIntosh
1966-1969
George McKenzie
1914
W. R. Moffatt
1967-1969
Otto Muth
1949-1950, 1953-1954
Alexander Nault
1918-1922, 1925-1926, 1931-1932
P. Orzechowski
1968-1969
Gordon M. Pearston
1936-1943
Albert Perreault
1918-1923, 1926-1933
W. D. Pooles
1964-1965
G. W. Rattray
1953
John Herbert Riley (1885-1960)
1918-1923
Dr. E. J. Robb
1924-1926
D. Sanderson
1964-1966
D. R. Seel
1961-1966
G. W. Seier
1946-1948
Milton E. Shantz (1873-?)
1916-1917
R. J. Simpson
1960-1963
Frank Sprague
1915-1917
M. F. Sproule
1913-1914
Harold St. George Stubbs (1912-2005)
1958-1960
Auguste Marc “Gus” Thorimbert (1923-2013)
1962-1967
Richard Alan “Dick” Wankling (1926-2004)
1962-1967
? Webb
1931-1933
George Wedge
1933-1940
L. H. Williamson
1954-1956
Cecil Wood
1927-1930
Richard Hunter Young (1876-1965)
1912-1914
George S. Young
1936-1944
Term
Police Chief
1945-1974
Arthur “Art” Bridgwater (1910-1976)
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Order of the Gate
Manitoba Gazette, 1887-1959. Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Horses on sidewalks irked Fort Garry,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1971, page 22.
We thank the City of Winnipeg Archives and Neil Pryce for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 September 2023
