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Known originally as Sipewiski, an Indigenous word meaning “crooked river,” it was changed to Wawanesa because early settlers thought it sounded like “sip of whiskey.” The word Wawanesa is an Indigenous word but there are several versions of what it is thought to mean.
Present Status
Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Village of Wawanesa (4 December 1908)
Amalgamation of Oakland and Wawanesa (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Land Area (square km)
2.26
Year
Total
1911
375
1916
343
1921
368
1926
374
1931
441
1936
427
1941
404
1946
423
1951
447
1956
440
1961
456
1966
512
1971
478
1976
487
1981
492
1986
502
1991
482
1996
485
2001
516
2006
535
2011
562
Term
Mayor
1909
Charles D. Kerr
1910-1912
Pierce Couling (1877-1947)
1913
Thomas Stevenson
1914-1924
William S. Peters (1865-1952)
1925-1930
Charles Clinton Gorrie (1885-1968)
1931-1951
Charles Lorraine Atkinson (1876-?)
1952-1967
Charles Clinton Gorrie (1885-1968)
1968-1971
Herbert Wesley Lawrence (1913-2010)
1972-1983
G. Hugh Wilton
1984-2005
Dean R. Boyd
2006-2014
Bruce Gullett
2015
See Oakland-Wawanesa
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Wawanesa.
Go here for a list of history books for Wawanesa.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
Manitoba Gazette, 1887-1959. Manitoba Legislative Library.
Sipiweske, Light Through the Trees: 100 Years of Wawanesa and District, Wawanesa & District History Book Committee, 1988.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 May 2017
