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This municipality was named for Earl Grey, Governor General of Canada from 1904 to 1916, the period during which it was incorporated.
Present Status
Rural Municipality of Grey (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Grey (9 February 1906)
Amalgamation of Grey and St. Claude (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Cartier, Dufferin, Macdonald, Norfolk-Treherne, Portage la Prairie
Constituent Communities
Land Area (square km)
960.57
Year
Total
1871
100
1881
700
1891
800
1896
?
1901
1119
1911
2518
1921
3520
1931
3472
1941
4174
1951
3881
1956
3853
1961
3733
1966
2890
1971
2551
1976
2409
1981
2194
1986
2195
1991
2104
1996
2201
2001
2147
2006
2004
2011
2615
2016
2648
2021
2517
Term
Reeve
1906-1907
R. H. Staples
1907-1916
Joseph “Joe” Wood (1867-1935)
1916-1921
Charles R. Rattliff
1921-1930
Charles J. H. Arbez
1930-1945
John M. Kennedy
1945-1960
Ernest Albert Baragar (1890-1960)
1960-1978
H. W. Shearer
1978-1980
?
1980-1983
Julius Petkau
1983-1992
Marcel Painchaud (1937-2015)
1992-2001
Charles Scharien
2001-2013
Theodore Frank “Ted” Tkachyk (?-2015)
2013-2022
Raymond Franzmann
2022-?
Gail Johnson
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Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 October 2022
