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Manitoba Communities: Belcourt (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)

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This municipality was named for cleric Georges Antoine Belcourt.

Present Status

Unincorporated Rural Municipality of Belcourt (1890)

Incorporation History

Rural Municipality of Belcourt (1880)
Dissolved and parts added to Macdonald, Portage la Prairie, and St. Francois Xavier (1890)

Adjoining Municipalities

Macdonald | Portage la Prairie | St. Francois Xavier

Land Area (square km)

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Reeves

Term

Reeve

1880-1887

?

1888

Joseph A. Ross

1889-1890

W. H. Kenny

1890

Municipality dissolved

Sources

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

Our First Hundred Years: A History of St. Francois-Xavier Municipality. St. Francois-Xavier Municipality Historical Committee, 1980. Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.S234.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 14 May 2017
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