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Known originally as Cherry Creek, this municipality was renamed after Adolf Boissevain, a Dutch investor in the Canadian Pacific Railway which arrived in this area in 1886.
Present Status
Municipality of Boissevain-Morton (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Village of Boissevain (2 November 1898)
Town of Boissevain (5 June 1906)
Amalgamated with Morton (1 January 2015)
Adjoining Municipalities
Land Area (square km)
2.77
Year
Total
1901
898
1906
979
1911
918
1916
948
1921
825
1926
788
1931
859
1936
819
1941
817
1946
836
1951
1015
1956
1115
1961
1303
1966
1473
1971
1506
1976
1584
1981
1660
1986
1572
1991
1484
1996
1544
2001
1495
2006
1497
2011
1572
Term
Mayor
1899
James Sinclair Reekie (1857-?)
1900
James Duncan Baine (1855-1922)
1901-1902
Richard Gardiner Willis (1865-1929)
1903-1904
Frederick Laurence Schaffner (1855-1935)
1905-1906
Alexander Robert Welch (1873-1961)
1907-1909
J. T. Elliott
1910-1912
Dr. R. J. Campbell
1913
G. C. Aitkens
1914-1915
Norman White
1916-1920
William Willson
1921
Dr. R. J. Campbell
1922-1923
John Lorne Dunn
1924-1926
George William McDonald (1875-?)
1927-1928
F. J. Crowhurst
1929-1939
Frederick Valentine Bird (1885-1977)
1940
Maris Henry Garton (1891-1973)
1941-1943
Martin Crowhurst
1944-1945
E. B. Gowler
1946-1967
Edward Ingo Dow (1904-1992)
1968-1972
James Douglas “Doug” Houston (1905-1985)
1972-1980
Jay F. Ryan
1981-1989
Jack Douglas Houston (1936-2020)
1990-2015
M. Edward “Ed” Anderson (1938-2019)
2015-?
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Go here for a list of historic sites in Boissevain.
Go here for a list of history books for Boissevain.
Beckoning Hills Revisited: Ours is a Goodly Heritage, Morton-Boissevain 1881-1981. Boissevain History Committee, 1981. Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.T87.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 November 2020
