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The Alexander Post Office, at Alexander in the Rural Municipality of Whitehead, is one of the oldest privately owned post offices in continuous use in Manitoba. Built as a small hotel, residence and store, with the central portion occupied by the post office in 1892, the structure was built by James Frederick Walker, whose family provided postal services to the village until 1949. It became a municipally-designated historic site in 1993.
Period
Postmasters
1882-1883
Loftus Morton Fortier (1858-?)
1884-1885
C. T. Weatherley
1887-1912
James Frederick Walker (c1839-1912)
1912-1949
Janie Elizabeth Walker (1883-1949)
1949
William Alfred Gamley
1949-1979
Nellie Frances Gamley
Alexander Post Office (September 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.82996, W100.29561
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
Alexander Post Office (415 Second Avenue West, Alexander), Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 January 2022
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