Manitoba Communities: Strathcona (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)

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This municipality was named for Donald Alexander Smith, also known as Lord Strathcona.

Present Status	Rural Municipality of Prairie Lakes (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History	Rural Municipality of Argyle (15 August 1881) Rural Municipality of Strathcona (16 March 1906) Amalgamated with Riverside (1 January 2015)
Adjoining Municipalities	Argyle, Riverside, Roblin, South Cypress, Turtle Mountain
Constituent Communities	Belmont, Hartney Junction, Hilton
Land Area (square km)	485.56

Population

Year	Total
1891	1000
1901	1447
1911	1530
1921	1751
1931	2140
1941	1993
1951	1804
1956	1913
1961	1759
1966	1557
1971	1222
1976	1125
1981	1016
1986	940
1991	878
1996	770
2001	628
2006	727
2011	643

Reeves

Term	Reeve
1907-1912	Charles Reginald Cannon (1866-1951)
1913-1914	Walter Goodbrand
1915-1916	?
1917-1918	John Horrocks
1919	John C. Smith
1920-1921	Charles Reginald Cannon (1866-1951)
1922-1926	George Tumoth
1927-1943	J. R. Stephenson
1944-1947	William P. McPhail
1948-1949	Robert J. Dunn
1950-1963	A. Williamson
1964-1967	G. A. Davis
1968-1977	Basil W. H. Sykes
1978-1992	F. Carl Myers
1993-1995	Rodney A. Capon
1996-2001	John W. Chambers
2002-2005	Robert Wood
2006	?
2007-2014	Dennis Schram
2015	See Prairie Lakes

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Historic Sites

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History Books

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Maps

Sources

Come Into Our Heritage: RM of Argyle, 1882-1982 by Rural Municipality of Argyle, December 1981, page 35. [Manitoba Legislative Library F5648.A75]

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 22 March 2017