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This municipality was formed around a community that dates from before 1870, at a place where boats on the Assiniboine River were taken out and portaged [carried] over the prairie to Lake Manitoba to the north.
Present Status
City of Portage la Prairie (13 February 1907)
Incorporation History
Town of Portage la Prairie (12 November 1880)
Adjoining Municipalities
Land Area (square km)
24.68
Year
Total
1891
3363
1901
3901
1906
5106
1911
5892
1916
5879
1921
6766
1926
6513
1931
6597
1936
6538
1941
7187
1946
7620
1951
8511
1956
10525
1961
12388
1966
13012
1971
12950
1976
12555
1981
13086
1986
13198
1991
13186
1996
13077
2001
12976
2006
12728
2011
12996
2016
13304
2021
13270
Term
Mayor
1880-1882
Thomas Collins (1846-1898)
1882-1884
Edward McDonald (1841-1915)
1884-1886
John Pringle Young (1845-1918)
1886-1887
None—solicitor Joseph Martin (1852-1923) appointed by council
1887-1889
John Pringle Young (1845-1918)
1889
William Garland (1856-1901)
1889-1890
James McLenaghen (c1848-1919)
1890-1891
William Garland (1856-1901)
1891-1893
Frederick Leslie Newman (1859-1942)
1893-1894
William Garland (1856-1901)
1894-1896
William J. Cooper (1860-?)
1896-1897
Edward Brown (1865-1947)
1897-1899
William Garland (1856-1901)
1899-1902
William J. Cooper (1860-?)
1902-1908
Edward Brown (1865-1947)
1908-1909
Samuel Wesley Woods (1866-1931)
1909-1910
Fawcett Gowler Taylor (1878-1940)
1910-1912
John James Garland (1873-1925)
1912-1916
Fawcett Gowler Taylor (1878-1940)
1916-1918
Samuel Reid Marlatt (1853-1932)
1918-1920
Joseph Henry Metcalfe (1870-1938)
1920-1921
Samuel Reid Marlatt (1853-1932)
1921-1930
William Herbert Burns (1878-1964)
1930-1932
Charles J. Sharp (1863-1953)
1932-1935
Joseph Charles Miller (1891-1987)
1935-1937
William D. Card (1871-1947)
1937-1943
Horace Ashley Ireland (1885-1968)
1943-1945
John A. Cavers
1945-1947
James Charles Preece (1903-1953)
1947-1967
Harold Lloyd Henderson (1907-1993)
1967-1971
William Allen “Bill” Linden (1928-2008)
1971-1974
Harold Lloyd Henderson (1907-1993)
1974-1978
K. Joyce Devine
1978-1980
?
1980-1986
Elmer John Greenslade (1916-1992)
1986-1989
William Malcolm “Bill” McMillan (1914-2004)
1989-1992
Douglas Earl Edmondson (1933-2012)
1992-1998
William Glenn Carlson (?-2012)
1998-2005
Ian A. MacKenzie (1923-2014)
2005-2009
Ken Brennan
2009-2014
Earl James Porter (1950-2019)
2014-2022
Irvine A. Ferris
2022-?
Sharilyn Knox
Search the MHS collection of biographies for ones connected to Portage la Prairie:
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Portage la Prairie.
Go here for a list of history books for Portage la Prairie.
Manitoba Gazette, 1887-1959. Manitoba Legislative Library.
Portage la Prairie, 1870-1970 by Anne M. Collier, 1970.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
We thank Paul Davidson for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 March 2023
