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The community of Waskada was founded around a post office established here in 1883. One story is that it was named by the federal government for an Aboriginal word meaning “the best of everything.” Another story, attributed to Dr. R. S. Thornton, was that the name derived from a Sioux expression Wa-sta-daow meaning “better further on” which was supposedly the phrase they told early settlers in hopes they would keep moving and not settle down.
Present Status
Municipality of Brenda-Waskada (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Village of Waskada (31 December 1948)
Amalgamation of Brenda and Waskada (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Land Area (square km)
0.77
Year
Total
1951
395
1956
357
1961
297
1966
282
1971
247
1976
257
1981
239
1986
349
1991
289
1996
288
2001
208
2006
199
2011
183
Term
Mayor
1949-1951
M. E. Hartry
1952-1953
Enoch Dawdo
1954-1957
Fred Elam
1958-1959
A. R. Rushton
1960-1961
E. J. Brotheridge
1962-1968
Frank Arthur Jones (1926-2016)
1969-1986
Murray Gibson Hannah (1925-2017)
1987-1990
Ken Harms
1991
Brenda Sharp
1992
Elwood Heath
1992-2006
Vaughan Ramsay (?-2014)
2007-2014
Gary Williams
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Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 November 2017
