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Until 1877, this community was named Ralstons Colony after John Ralston who had brought settlers here from Burritts Rapids, Ontario. When a formal name for the community was selected in 1877, Rapid City was chosen due to the fast-flowing Little Saskatchewan River nearby.
Present Status
Rural Municipality of Oakview (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Town of Rapid City (9 June 1883)
Amalgamated of Rapid City, Blanshard and Saskatchewan (1 January 2015)
Land Area (square km)
5.38
Year
Total
1891
543
1901
529
1906
738
1911
580
1916
658
1921
571
1926
513
1931
493
1936
447
1941
452
1946
402
1951
391
1956
434
1961
467
1966
449
1971
374
1976
412
1981
431
1986
447
1991
406
1996
408
2001
424
2006
416
2011
417
Term
Mayor
1883-1885
?
1886-1888
Sampson Leslie Head (1850-1941)
1889
Robert McArthur (1832-1903)
1890
James O. Ovas
1891
?
1892
James O. Ovas
1893-1895
Disorganized
1896
Malcolm Turriff (1849-1917) [receiver]
1897-1898
?
1899
John George Hindson (1848-1921)
1900-1902
Edmund Cecil Gosset Jackson (1862-1915)
1903
John George Hindson (1848-1921)
1904
George Little Stone (1858-?)
1905
Henry C. Clay (1881-?)
1906-1907
Thomas Johnston Butchart (1871-1954)
1908
Hugh H. Lockhart (1866-?)
1909-1910
Arthur Frederick LePage (1870-?)
1911
James Russell Burland (1856-?)
1912-1913
T. G. Millar
1914
Edmund Cecil Gosset Jackson (1862-1915)
1915-1916
Charles E. Cresswell
1917
Hugh H. Lockhart
1918-1919
W. E. Birkinshaw
1920-1921
J. M. Young
1922
John Flows
1923-1927
E. E. Riesberry
1928-1929
C. M. Beattie
1930-1932
C. Stone
1933-1935
D. G. McMillan
1936-1937
E. S. Gardiner
1938-1941
F. W. Swann
1942-1947
J. Wesley Rousell
1948-1953
E. G. R. Gardiner
1954-1957
J. Wesley Rousell
1958-1959
Rev. G. G. Harris
1960-1961
J. Wesley Rousell
1962-1963
Norman Macdonald Birkinshaw (1911-1986)
1964-1967
T. Turner
1968-1970
J. P. Carr
1971-1978
Harold E. Hyndman
1979-1980
?
1981-1983
Morris J. Stefaniuk
1983-1993
Lloyd D. “Tiny” Shelvey (1947-2010)
1993-1997
Harvey Wright
1998-2001
Harold E. Hyndman
2002-?
Terry Christie
?-2014
Orest Woloski
2015
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Postcard view of Rapid City (circa 1909) |
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 July 2024
