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This one-storey brick veneer building on Waddell Avenue East in Dominion City was built in 1960 by the Steinbach firm of Steinbach Lumber Yards Limited.
Period
Postmasters
1876-1883
Duncan McKerchar
1883-1910
Robert Taylor (1837-1910)
1910-1915
Margaret Jane Taylor (1850-1915)
1915-1928
Winona Gertrude Taylor Turner (1891-1928)
1928-1945
Hjalti S. Anderson (1883-1945)
1945-1951
John Grant Murchison (1882-1954)
1951-1981
William Alfred Taylor
Post office building at Dominion City (June 2019)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.14238, W97.15286
denoted by symbol on the map above
Death registrations [Robert Taylor, Margaret Jane Taylor, Winona Turner, Hjalti Anderson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“$5 million in works contracts,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 January 1960, page 50.
“Work begins on new post office building,” Steinbach Carillon, 29 January 1960, page 17.
Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 October 2020
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