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This municipality was named for the Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor General of Canada from 1883 to 1888.
Present Status
Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Lansdowne (22 December 1883)
Amalgamated with Glenella (1 January 2015)
Adjoining Municipalities
Glenella, Helston, Langford, North Cypress, Rosedale, Westbourne
Constituent Communities
Land Area (square km)
766.29
Year
Total
1891
837
1901
1737
1911
2085
1921
2073
1931
1859
1941
2077
1951
1840
1956
1614
1961
1485
1966
1417
1971
1262
1976
1150
1981
1148
1986
1071
1991
999
1996
966
2001
877
2006
750
2011
723
Term
Reeve
1884-1887
John McGregor
1888-1889
Robert A. Van Blaricom
1890-1891
W. Montgomery
1892-1893
G. S. McGregor
1894
Robert A. Van Blaricom
1895-1897
G. S. McGregor
1898-1902
David Wilson (1858-1927)
1903-1905
Thomas Bennett Tomes (1856-1913)
1906-1911
William L. McNair
1912-1945
John Foster
1946-1951
Cecil H. Bowe
1952-1953
Frank Russell
1954-1959
Emil Evenson
1960-1971
Cecil G. Ferguson
1972
?
1973-1974
Douglas Burrows Foreman
1975-1986
Lionel B. Windus
1987-1989
Valdine H. Smith
1990-1998
Kenneth Rogers
1999-2005
Arnold Suski
2006
?
2007-2014
Richard Funk
2015
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Lansdowne.
Go here for a list of history books for Lansdowne.
Lansdowne (2002) |
The Lansdowne Story: Grain, Gravel, Growth by A. F. McKenzie, 1967.
One Hundred Years in the History of Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, 1978.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
We thank Allan Drysdale, Tracey Winthrop-Meyers and John Dietz for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 September 2020
