Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dominion Post Office Building (204 Spencer Street, Hartney, Municipality of Grassland)

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Postmasters | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

This brick building on Spencer Street in Hartney was constructed in 1960 as a post office, for which it is still in use as of 2020.

Postmasters

Period

Postmasters

1885-1897

James Harvey Hartney (1848-1924)

1897-1906

John Blair (1854-?)

1906-1912

John M. Fee

1912-1935

Charles David Batty (1861-1939)

1935-1954

Herbert Charles Batty (1893-1969)

1954-1982

Cyril George Moir

1982

Bill Heape

1983-1993

Jim Moir

1993-1998

Mary Hardy

Photos & Coordinates

Dominion Post Office Building at Hartney

Dominion Post Office Building at Hartney (July 2018)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.48018, W100.52202
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.

A Community With Spirit: Hartney, 1982-2002 by Hartney History Book Committee, 2003, page 19.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 17 November 2022

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