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This municipality was named for Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada.
Present Status
Rural Municipality of Macdonald (25 May 1881)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Macdonald (25 May 1881)
Adjoining Municipalities
Constituent Communities
Brunkild, Dipple, Domain, Ferndale, Fortress, La Salle, Mollard, Oak Bluff, Osborne, Sanford, Starbuck
Land Area (square km)
1158.33
Year
Total
1871
800
1881
800
1891
819
1896
527
1901
1360
1911
2544
1921
2993
1931
3475
1941
3676
1951
3041
1956
2895
1961
2983
1966
3091
1971
3169
1976
3247
1981
3403
1986
3583
1991
3999
1996
4900
2001
5320
2006
5653
2011
6280
2016
7162
2021
8120
Term
Reeve
1881-1884
A. Dryden
1884-1887
T. A. Gamble
1887-1889
William Parker
1889-1891
John Wilson
1891-1895
John W. Parker
1895-1896
J. O. Faubert
1896-1897
A. Meakin
1897-1902
D. R. Stewart
1902-1904
A. Wilson
1904-1905
John W. Parker
1905-1907
William Hordle Wheatland (1867-1954)
1907-1911
R. W. Woods
1911-1912
John Fletcher Goldsborough (1863-1943)
1912-1919
James Heron “Jim” Parker (1876-1960)
1919-1927
Samuel A. Rodgers
1927-1932
Charles Everett Sweeney (1873-1953)
1932-1937
James C. Sim
1937-1945
William Allinson
1945-1953
Homer F. Mills
1953-1960
Henry Magarrell
1960-1977
Lloyd E. Magarrell
1977-1986
Carl F. Pitura (1925-2024)
1986-1988
Donald Laverne Manness (c1943-2022)
1988-1991
Victor F. Baleja
1991-1995
Glenn Wayne Dressel (1943-1998)
1995-2014
Rodney Burns (1944-2023)
2014-?
Bradley “Brad” Erb
Term
Clerk / Secretary-Treasurer
1883
Cornelius W. Wheatland
1884
A. M. Brown
1885
R. W. Code
W. J. Robinson1886-1887
John Cuddy (1843-?)
1888
A. Wilson
1889-1890
A. Dryden
1891-1906
John Cuddy
1906-1932
Harold “Harry” Grills (1870-1954)
1932-1942
Vernon E. Fox
1942-1967
Gladstone C. Catley
1967-1991
Lorne F. Erb
1991-?
Tom Raine
Name
Term
W. Allinson
1909, 1922-1927
D. Anseeuw
1998-2002
V. Baleja
1977-1989
S. E. Baldwin
1946-1961
A. H. Bertrand
1881
A. H. Bestland
1995-1998
Cynthia Bisson
1998-?
W. H. Black
1900-1902
J. Blanco
1906, 1908-1910
H. Bohemier
1911-1912
Rodney Burns
1989-1995
B. Casselman
1888-1891
S. Cockerill
1992-1995
J. A. Cormier
1909-1910, 1913-1920, 1923-1926
H. M. Courtney
1909-1913
J. D. Cuddy
1911-1928
James Anthony Cuddy (1892-1971)
1948-1953, 1957-1970
W. Cummings
1906-1908, 1910-1911
R. H. DeVos
1973-1977
Doug Dobrowolski
1992-?
R. Doerksen
1986-1998
A. Dryden
1887-1889, 1892-1897, 1903-1905, 1908-1910
J. C. Dryden
1920-1926, 1933-1938
G. Dyck
1989-1992
K. Dyck
1986-1989
Brad Erb
2002-?
J. P. Fast
1928-1943, 1946-1950
L. Fetterman
1940-1945
W. Flinn
1929-1944
W. A. Fowler
1887
M. Gaudry
1902-1905
John Fletcher Goldsborough (1863-1943)
1903-1907
Joseph Henry Goldsborough
1954-1971
J. Grabowski
1944-1945
C. Guilbault
1898-1899
W. M. Herbert
1920-1921
D. A. Houston
1902, 1928-1939
George Junkin
1995-?
R. M. Junkin
1971-1977
P. L. Kaminsky
1951-1965
A. Kemp
1889-1905
Roger Kirouac
2002-?
E. Lagace
1980-1986
M. Lagace
1961-1971, 1977-1980
W. Laughland
1891-1892
Gilles Lavallee
1998-?
J. Lecomte
1892
R. Livingston
1944-1947
R. H. Longmore
1903-1906
H. W. Magarrell
1939-1953
L. E. Magarrell
1947-1960
L. Manness
1975-1986
F. W. Manness
1890
J. Marshal
1995-1998
A. McCurdy
1898, 1900-1901
J. McDonald
1898-1902
B. L. McDole
1945-1956
P. McGrath
1906-1908
G. McIntyre
1877
R. McLean
1900-1901
A. McPherson
1977-1986
J. J. McRae
1900-1901
A. Meakin
1912-1919
D. A. Mills
1912-1919
Homer Mills
1928-1943
H. G. Mills
1922-1926
D. Milne
1903-1905
T. J. Montgomery
1888-1889
C. A. Moors
1926-1927
Joe Morse
1972-1989
Bob Morse
1995-?
B. Murphy
1986-2002
T. Nugent
1889-1897
A. Olund
1979-1992
W. Orr
1902
M. Oughton
1907
G. Parker
1899, 1902-1903
J. W. Parker
1887-1888, 1890
H. Picken
1924-1925
Carl Pitura
1961-1974
L. Poersch
1989-1992
W. S. Reid
1891
J. Rempel
1978-1986
W. J. Robinson
1889-1892
J. E. Rochon
1921-1922
R. O. Rochon
1937-1946
L. R. Russell
1892
C. Ryan
1986-1992
J. C. Sim
1927-1932
J. J. Sim
1954-1960
R. Smith
1887, 1889-1891
C. E. Sweeney
1911-1920
G. P. Wastle
1898-1899
F. W. Weidman
1962-1974
J. E. Wheatland
1920-1921
William H. Wheatland (1867-?)
1904-1905
W. A. Wilde
1966-1974
A. Wilson
1892, 1898-1902
T. Wilson
1887-1888
R. W. Woods
1906-1907
W. Wrixon
1897-1899
Search the MHS collection of biographies for ones connected to Macdonald:
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Macdonald.
Go here for a list of history books for Macdonald.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
Hugging the Meridian, Macdonald: A Manitoba Municipal History, 1881-1981 by Betty Dyck, 1981.
Obituary [Donald Laverne Manness], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 October 2022.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 March 2024
