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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
Rural Municipality of Portage la Prairie (22 December 1883)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Portage (14 February 1880)
Adjoining Municipalities
Cartier, Grey, North Norfolk, St. Francois Xavier, South Norfolk, Westbourne, Woodlands
Constituent Communities
Airport Colony, Alpha, Arona, Bloom, Burnside, Curtis, Delta Beach, Edwin, Elm River Colony, Fortier, Fulton, Genest, Gervais, High Bluff, Hobson, Huddlestone, Kelvin, Layland, Longburn, Macdonald, Newton, Oakland, Oakville, Poplar Point, Portage la Prairie (City), Rignold, Skelding, Southport, St. Ambroise, St. Marks
Land Area (square km)
1961.97
Year
Total
1871
995
1881
4041
1891
4082
1901
5109
1911
5584
1921
6586
1931
6779
1941
7630
1951
6700
1956
9208
1961
8079
1966
7481
1971
7514
1976
7029
1981
7054
1986
7233
1991
7156
1996
6627
2001
6791
2006
6793
2011
6525
2016
6975
2021
6888
Term
Reeve
1880
H. M. Campbell (?-?) - Warden
1881-1882
John Wilton (1810-1900) - Warden
1883-1884
Matthew Ferriss (1818-1900) - Warden and Reeve
1885-1886
Lachlan W. McLean (1846-1913)
1886-1888
Thomas Hatton Metcalfe (1839-1921)
1888-1890
W. F. Smith
1890-1891
J. W. Jackson
1891-1892
Gardner Greenlay (?-?)
1892-1893
James McBain
1893-1895
William Fulton (1846-1920)
1895-1897
Maxwell Wilton (1837-1925)
1897-1899
James Bray
1899-1900
William Thomas Muir (c1857-1900)
1900-1902
George Lytle (1845-1908)
1902-1904
C. E. Grobb
1904-1906
John Weir (1867-1959)
1906-1908
William McBride
1908-1910
George Cadman
1910-1912
Robert J. Caskey
1912-1914
Henry George “Harry” Leader (1880-1946)
1914-1922
Edwin Herbert Muir (1868-1954)
1922-1925
Robert McDermott (1868-1947)
1925-1928
David Thompson
1928-1931
John Pigott “Jack” Bend (1883-1969)
1931-1933
Charles A. Curtis
1933-1935
Wilfred Metcalfe
1935-1937
O. C. Neuman
1937-1940
Thomas Weir McCartney (1874-1940)
1940-1949
Allen McCoag McCallister (1879-1951)
1949-1961
J. Lawrence Smith (1889-1967)
1961-1963
T. N. Kitchen
1963-1977
Robert Samuel Adrain (1912-1996)
1977-1986
Sydney J. Lye
1986-2005
James Alexander “Jim” Knight (1934-2022)
2005-2006
?
2006-2010
J. T. “Toby” Trimble
2010-2024
Kameron “Kam” Blight
2024-?
?
Term
Secretary-Treasurer
1893-1930
David McCowan (1849-1930)
1930-1946
?
1946-1983
William Malcolm “Bill” McMillan (1914-2004)
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35 Tupper Street South
Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, R1N 1W7
Telephone: 204-857-3821
Email: info@rmofportage.ca
Manitoba Gazette, 1887-1959. Manitoba Legislative Library.
Portage la Prairie, 1870-1970 by Anne M. Collier, 1970.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 October 2024
