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This municipality is named for the Pipestone Creek that runs through it which, in turn, is believed to have been so named because soft stone suitable for making pipes was found in its vicinity.
Present Status
Rural Municipality of Pipestone (22 December 1883)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Pipestone (22 December 1883)
Adjoining Municipalities
Constituent Communities
Agnew, Butler, Cromer, Ebor, Ewart, Linklater, Pipestone, Reston, Scarth, Sinclair, Woodnorth
Land Area (square km)
1147.35
Year
Total
1891
1100
1901
1592
1911
3082
1921
3251
1931
3382
1941
2781
1951
2744
1956
2838
1961
2767
1966
2643
1971
2293
1976
2138
1981
2073
1986
1987
1991
1795
1996
1710
2001
1567
2006
1419
2011
1447
2016
1458
2021
1422
Term
Reeve
1883-1884
John McKinnon
1884-1887
Daniel McLean [MacLean] (1854-1908)
1887-1888
William McDougall
1888-1889
John McKinnon
1889-1895
Robert Forke (1860-1934)
1895-1898
William Reid Guthrie (c1834-1909)
1898-1901
William Lothian (1855-1940)
1901-1904
John Grant Rattray (1867-1944)
1904-1914
Robert Forke (1860-1934)
1914-1917
William Huston Donald (1862-1925)
1917-1918
Albert Edwin Smith (1875-1950)
1918-1923
William Huston Donald (1862-1925)
1923-1932
David Leopold Mellish (1883-1954)
1932-1948
William Watt (1875-1958)
1948-1951
Gordon Alexander Mooney (1905-1987)
1951-1959
James Alexander Donald (1904-1982)
1959-1977
Charles Francis Wedow (1907-2004)
1977-1992
John R. “Jack” Guthrie (c1924-2011)
1992-1998
W. Ross Tycoles
1998-2002
Melvin D. Watt (1946-2010)
2002-2006
Karen Caldwell
2006-2014
W. Ross Tycoles
2014-?
Archie McPherson
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Pipestone.
Go here for a list of history books for Pipestone.
Obituary [James Alexander Donald], Winnipeg Free Press, 23 January 1982, page 46.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Michelle Halls for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 October 2022