Manitoba Communities: Swan River (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)

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This municipality was named for a river that flows through it.

Present Status	Municipality of Swan Valley West (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History	Rural Municipality of Swan River (1 May 1901) Amalgamation of Benito and Swan River (1 January 2015)
Adjoining Municipalities	Minitonas, Mountain
Constituent Communities	Benito, Bowsman, Durban, Kenville, Swan River
Land Area (square km)	1719.47

Population

Year	Total
1901	1422
1911	2646
1921	4588
1931	4976
1941	5444
1951	4605
1956	4488
1961	4373
1966	4103
1971	3628
1976	3443
1981	3273
1986	3227
1991	2947
1996	2907
2001	2923
2006	2774
2011	2546

Reeves

Term	Reeve
1902	James Wells Robson (1867-1941)
1903	John Orr
1904	?
1905	W. J. Stewart
1906	John Alexander Kennedy (1854-1929)
1907	Frank Sorase
1908	J. P. Jones
1908-1910	Daniel Duncan McDonald (1865-1945)
1910-1913	William Edwards
1913-1914	William Henry Sims (1872-1955)
1914-1919	Daniel Duncan McDonald (1865-1945)
1920-1927	W. H. C. Hinchcliffe
1928-1941	Charles H. Goodman
1942-1945	W. I. Steen
1946-1949	H. E. Staples
1950-1954	George P. Bayne
1955-1974	George Isaac McCullough (1895-1979)
1975-1978	William I. Finlay
1979-1980	?
1981-1986	Harold L. Ellingson
1987-1995	William P. Galloway
1996-2001	Jacob “Jake” Buhler (1931-2015)
2002-2005	R. Rick Reich
2006	?
2007-?	Earl K. Fullerton
?-2014	Lorne Henkelman
2015	See Swan Valley West

Secretary-Treasurers

Period	Secretary-Treasurer
1902-1903	H. E. Glendinning
1904	?
1905-1906	S. R. Wright
1907	S. Macdonald
1908-1920	Joseph Armstrong
1921-1925	Albert E. Reed
1926-1934	John B. Hazell
1935	I. E. Argue
1936-1949	J. B. Hutcheson
1950-1959	William H. Hambly

Memorable Manitobans

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Historic Sites

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History Books

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Maps

Sources

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

We thank Jeremy Bergen for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 29 March 2022