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This municipality was named when, in 1883, the Municipality of Norfolk was divided into North Norfolk and South Norfolk.
Present Status
Municipality of Norfolk Treherne (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of South Norfolk (22 December 1883)
Amalgamation of South Norfolk and Treherne (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Dufferin, Grey, Lorne, North Norfolk, Portage la Prairie, Victoria
Constituent Communities
Land Area (square km)
732.03
Year
Total
1891
1340
1896
1658
1901
2459
1911
3097
1921
3330
1931
3146
1941
3280
1951
2269
1956
2221
1961
2241
1966
1706
1971
1490
1976
1414
1981
1285
1986
1197
1991
1234
1996
1282
2001
1246
2006
1170
2011
1125
Term
Reeve
1883-1885
John Moir (1848-?)
1886-1888
William Cooper
1889-1891
Robert James Warren (1853-1922)
1892-1893
James Kenneth Robson (1853-1913)
1894-1896
Thomas C. Forbes
1897-1899
D. F. Williams
1900
James Stanton
1901
William J. Venner (1848-1947)
1902-1903
William Davey Staples (1868-1929)
1904-1907
Adam Forbes
1907-1920
William Hooey Spinks (1873-1949)
1921-1935
John Ramsay Scott
1936-1937
J. D. Scott
1938-1941
Joseph Laurie Lamont (1891-1955)
1942-1949
John D. Scott
1950-1953
Joseph Deroche
1954-1957
Marcel Boulic (1916-1959)
1958-1963
Leslie Frank Gates (1917-1979)
1964-1992
Robert Frank “Bob” Culbert
1993-1998
Joseph Davy
1999-2010
Thomas Roy “Tom” Kelly (1940-2010)
2011-2014
Craig Spencer
2015
See Norfolk-Treherne
Search the MHS collection of biographies for ones connected to South Norfolk:
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Go here for a list of historic sites in South Norfolk.
Go here for a list of history books for South Norfolk.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
Tiger Hills to the Assiniboine: A History of Treherne and Surrounding District by Treherne Area History Committee, 1976.
Warren Family Connections by Arthur W. Warren, privately published, 2008.
We thank Bev Botkin for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 April 2021
