Manitoba Communities: North Cypress (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)

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This municipality was named for the Cypress River that flows nearby.

Present Status	Municipality of North Cypress-Langford (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History	Rural Municipality of North Cypress (1 January 1883) Amalgamation of Langford and North Cypress (1 January 2015)
Adjoining Municipalities	Carberry, Cornwallis, Elton, Glenboro-South Cypress, Norfolk-Treherne, Victoria, WestLake-Gladstone
Constituent Communities	Brookdale, Carberry, Edrans, Fairview, Firdale, Gregg, Harte, Ingelow, Melbourne, Oberon, Petrel, Shilo, Wellwood
Land Area (square km)	1199.92

Population

Year	Total
1891	2661
1896	1574
1901	2520
1911	2686
1921	2729
1931	2576
1941	2465
1951	2294
1956	2822
1961	2304
1966	2281
1971	2029
1976	2049
1981	2004
1986	2201
1991	2028
1996	1900
2001	1853
2006	1902
2011	1860

Reeves

Term	Reeve
1882	William Spence
1883	John McDonnell
1884-1885	Thomas Walter Gilbert (1850-1890)
1886-1889	John A. Smith
1890	James Wellington McCrae (1857-1930)
1891-1892	Robert Ferguson
1893-1894	John Morgan
1895-1896	Roderick W. McLean
1897-1898	Charles A. Gowan
1899-1900	William George Rogers (1854-1933)
1901-1902	John W. Stratford
1903-1905	John G. Barron (1850-1926)
1906-1907	Peter Robertson
1908-1909	John Elmhurst (1867-?)
1910-1911	John G. Barron
1912-1913	T. Edward Miller
1914-1915	Harry Boles
1916-1917	Andrew Lyons
1918-1919	William G. Kennedy
1920-1922	Harry Boles
1923-1924	Andrew Lyons
1925-1945	Thomas Braden (1863-1950)
1946-1959	Samuel L. Reidle
1960-1971	Walter M. Froom
1972-1975	T. Roy Bailey
1976-1989	C. Hunter Witherspoon
1990-1998	Alexander M. Turner
1999-2001	Garry Henderson
2002-2006	Jim Ranson
2007-?	Brad Wells
?-2014	Ralph Oliver
2015	See North Cypress-Langford

Memorable Manitobans

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Historic Sites

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History Books

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Maps

Sources

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

The People of the Big Plain: Carberry, North Cypress 125th Anniversary. Carberry-North Cypress 125 History Book Committee, 2007. Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.C36.

Carberry Plains, Century One: 1882-1982 by the Carberry History Committee, 1982. ISBN 0-88925-422-2. Manitoba Historical Society Library, 971.27Car.

Manitoba Gazette, 1887-1959. Manitoba Legislative Library

We thank Allan Drysdale for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 6 April 2017