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According to Geographic Names of Manitoba (2000), this municipality was named either for the ancestral Scottish home of early settlers to the area, or Wallace Ross, a champion oarsman from St. John, New Brunswick.
Present Status
Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Wallace (22 December 1883)
Amalgamation of Elkhorn and Woodworth (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Constituent Communities
Elkhorn, Harmsworth, Homestead, Kirkella, Kola, Maples, Reaper, Scallion, Two Creeks, Virden
Land Area (square km)
1148.75
Year
Total
1891
1474
1896
4000
1901
2095
1911
2572
1921
2573
1931
2614
1941
2275
1951
2179
1956
2548
1961
2535
1966
2317
1971
2172
1976
2157
1981
2044
1986
2070
1991
1889
1996
1654
2001
1547
2006
1501
2011
1526
Term
Reeve
1884-1887
Adam Gerrond McDougall (1836-1907)
1888-1891
James Findlay Frame (1841-1923)
1892
William Mair Cushing (1853-1925)
1893-1896
Watson Montgomery Crosby (1857-1897)
1897-1899
George A. Freeman
1900-1902
John Joslin (1831-1917)
1903-1904
Amos Odell
1905-1907
Christopher Stinson (1864-1929)
1908-1943
Charles Edmund Ivens (1860-1946)
1944-1967
Harvey Cecil Odell (1892-1975)
1968-1983
Maxwell James “Mac” Edgar (1913-1990)
1984-1992
Keith A. Kinnaird (1928-2005)
1993-1997
Alex Gabrielle
1998-2001
Jim Penner
2002-2010
Vince Heaman
2010-2011
Richard Murphy (c1943-2013)
2011-2014
Don Neufeld
2015
Members of the 1884 founding council of the RM included J. Angus, A. Austin, H. Crisp, Watson Montgomery Crosby, William Cushing, G. Dier, John Joslin, Adam Gerrond McDougall, and William Harkness McDougall.
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Wallace.
Go here for a list of history books for Wallace.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
We thank Mary Angus-Yanke for providing a list of the founding municipal council.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 22 September 2018
