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The earliest European settlers to this area arrived around 1880, the first being William Denmark who homesteaded north of the town site and Charles A. Boulton who homesteaded some 10 miles further north. Boulton acquired the section of land where Russell is now situated and, in 1881, the town site was surveyed and named Russell in honour of Surveyor-General Lindsay Russell. In the fall of 1881, the Hudson’s Bay Company established a trading post at the site later occupied by the Doig Block.
Present Status
Municipality of Russell-Binscarth (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Village of Russell (4 June 1907)
Town of Russell (11 March 1913)
Amalgamation of Binscarth, Russell and Russell (1 January 2015)Land Area (square km)
3.15
Year
Total
1911
562
1916
820
1921
696
1926
814
1931
827
1936
823
1941
783
1946
885
1951
1100
1956
1227
1961
1263
1966
1511
1971
1526
1976
1524
1981
1660
1986
1669
1991
1616
1996
1605
2001
1587
2006
1590
2011
1669
Term
Mayor
1907-1908
Thomas Hill (1849-1917)
1908-1912
Henry Clee (1871-?)
1912-1913
E. M. Williams
1913-1914
Donald Cromwell McDonald (1879-1917)
1914-1918
William Wilber Wilfred Wilson (1885-1964)
1918-1920
Dr. G. E. Swallow
1921
L. C. Boulton
1921-1923
Henry Clee (1871-?)
1923-1933
Percival Hudson “Percy” Nelson (1871-1942)
1933-1945
Harold S. Hembroff
1945-1955
Andrew Mather
1955-1974
James A. Burgess (c1908-1984)
1974-1980
David Arthur “Art” Kinney (1915-2003)
1980-1986
James Lawther Langford (1928-2006)
1986-1989
William Russell
1989-1992
James Lawther Langford (1928-2006)
1992-1998
William Russell
1998-2001
Vernon “Vern” Rosnoski (?-2014)
2001-?
Merril Kiliwnik
?-2014
Christopher Radford
2015
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“William James Doig is called by death,” Manitoba Free Press, 13 May 1924, page 5.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 March 2024
