Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dominion Post Office Building (21 Crescent Avenue West, Souris, Municipality of Souris-Glenwood)

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Postmasters | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The former post office building at Souris, a municipally-designated historic site (1991), was constructed between 1911 and 1912 by Piggott and Son of Hamilton, Ontario. It was one of six built by the federal government before the First World War.

Postmasters

Period

Postmasters

1882-1909

John Dolmage (1853-1914)

1909-1911

R. H. Currie

1911-1933

William George Wenman (1859-1942)

1934-1944

Frederick Edward Wenman

1944-1947

John Harold Russell (1888-1947)

1947-1958

Francis Malcolm Macdonnell (1896-1958)

1958-1970

Paul E. Scott

1970-?

James E. C. McLeod

Photos & Coordinates

Former Dominion Post Office Building at Souris

Former Dominion Post Office Building at Souris (November 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Former Dominion Post Office Building at Souris

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

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.61672, W100.25936
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites

Sources:

“Looking backward – 50 years ago today,” Brandon Sun, 20 September 1960, page 8.

Souris Dominion Post Office, 21 Crescent Avenue W, Souris, 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: 29 January 2022

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