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This one-storey brick building on Regent Avenue West in the Transcona area of Winnipeg was built between 1929 and 1930 as the Transcona postal branch.
Period
Postmasters
1910-1912
Thomas F. Shannon
1912-1916
William McFarlane (1854-1916)
1917-1925
Edith Maria McFarlane (1872-?)
1925-1930
Nathaniel Frederick Whittalow
1930-1949
Thomas Henry “Tom” Shakespeare (1883-1965)
1949
Miss Mary Lilith Ruth Shakespeare (1916-2003)
1950-1951
Peter Noel Glacken
Dominion Post Office Building in the Transcona area of Winnipeg (no date)
Source: Rob McInnes
Former Dominion Post Office Building in the Transcona area of Winnipeg (May 2018)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.89532, W97.00596
denoted by symbol on the map above
Transcona Post Office, 201 Regent Avenue West by Murray Peterson, Peterson Projects, December 2009.
Post Offices and Postmasters, Library and Archives Canada.
We thank Nathan Kramer, Rob McInnes, and Glen Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 January 2024
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