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This one-storey brick post office building on Burrows Road in McCreary was constructed in 1962 by the Nils Anderson Construction Company of McCreary, at a cost of $17,951.
Period
Postmasters
1897-1898
James Elliott
1898-1901
Robert McLean
1901
Wilfrid Ledoux
1901-1903
Alice L. Ledoux (?-1903)
1903-1912
A. Ledoux
1912-1927
Benjamin Franklin Sparks (1884-1927)
1927-1945
Elizabeth Emily Sparks (1884-1973)
1945-1952
Hans Owen Hanson
1952
Miss Alice Deschenes
1952-1954
Douglas Wilson McDonald
1954
Margarie M. Greentree
1955-1985
Arnold Robert Lindsay (1921-1987)
Dominion Post Office Building at McCreary (May 2019)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.77298, W99.49208
denoted by symbol on the map above
Death registration [Benjamin Franklin Sparks], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Public work contracts awarded,” Brandon Sun, 22 January 1962, page 9.
Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.
This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 December 2023
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