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This municipality was named for a region in Scotland from which a group of Selkirk Settlers had come in the early 1800s.
Present Status
City of Winnipeg (1 January 1972)
Incorporation History
Municipality of Kildonan and St. James (1876)
Rural Municipality of Kildonan (1880)
Divided into East Kildonan and West Kildonan (1914)Land Area (square km)
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Year
Total
1871
500
1881
700
1891
700
1896
?
1901
668
1911
1767
Term
Reeve
1876-1878
William Henderson
1879
Thomas Anderson
1880
William Henderson
1881-1883
John Matheson
1884-1885
Edward Phillip “EP” Leacock (1853-1927)
1886-1897
William Fraser (1832-1909)
1898-1899
John Sutherland (1837-1922)
1900-1905
John Henderson (1841-1922)
1906-1908
Albert Ryerson Bredin (1868-?)
1909-1913
Samuel Robert Henderson (1863-1928)
1914
Edmund Partridge (1868-1955)
Subdivided into East Kildonan and West Kildonan
Councillor
Term(s)
Thomas Anderson
1876-1878
Alex Bannerman
1895-1897
Albert Ryerson Bredin (1868-1956)
1900-1904
E. P. Brooks
1913-1914
Neil Campbell
1882-1893, 1898
I. Colish
1914
W. H. Coulter
1907
Donald Flett
1895-1897
John Flett
1876
John Fortier
1908, 1912
John B. Fortier
1910
William Fraser
1880, 1882-1885
Robert Gunn
1879
A. R. Hamilton
1913
Daniel Hamilton
1879
E. A. Hamilton
1911-1912
J. Harper
1913
James Harper
1897, 1899-1912
William Harper
1898
John Henderson
1881-1888, 1890-1897
Samuel Robert Henderson (1863-1928)
1894, 1896-1907
C. F. Herbert
1905
George T. Hoyes
1898-1899
Peter Kauffman
1881-1882, 1885-1887, 1889-1894
John A. Larson
1901
Donald Matheson
1902-1904
John Matheson
1876-1880
Norman Matheson
1877, 1895-1896, 1898-1900, 1906
Samuel Matheson
1881
William Matheson
1876
Robert McBeth
1883-1895
Peter McCalman
1905-1906
J. N. McCreary
1908-1912
Thomas McIntosh
1895-1896
Angus M. McKay
1908-1909
William McKay
1898-1913
Charles Midwinter
1906-1907
Alex Munro
1905
Alex Munroe
1880-1881
Donald Munroe
1910-1911, 1914
James Munroe
1878
Edmund Partridge (1868-1955)
1901-1903, 1907-1912
Alex Polson
1877-1879, 1882-1884
Angus Polson
1886-1887, 1889-1893
Joseph Armour Potter
1900
W. C. Smith
1913-1914
Donald Sutherland
1881
Hector Sutherland
1894-1895
J. R. Sutherland
1882-1889
John Sutherland
1880-1881, 1888-1894
Morrison Sutherland
1899
Robert Wilke Toshack (1859-1943)
1914
Freeman West
1904
Herbert C. Whellams (1867-1950)
1909, 1913-1914
We thank Jim Smith and Nathan Kramer for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 May 2017
