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Manitoba Communities: Turtle Mountain (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)
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This municipality is named for a range of hills nearby.
Present Status
Rural Municipality of Killarney-Turtle Mountain (1 January 2007)
Incorporation History
Rural Municipality of Turtle Mountain (15 August 1881)
Amalgamated with Killarney (1 January 2007)Adjoining Municipalities
Constituent Communities
Enterprise, Holmfield, Killarney, Lena, Ninga, Rhodes, Wakopa
Land Area (square km)
920.14
Population
Year
Total
1891
1572
1896
3309
1901
3050
1911
2592
1921
2541
1931
2963
1941
2707
1951
2310
1956
2185
1961
2002
1966
1769
1971
1612
1976
1463
1981
1352
1986
1285
1991
1142
1996
1179
2001
1146
2006
1100
Reeves
Term
Reeve
1881-1882
?
1882-1883
James S. Stevenson [Warden]
1883-1886
William Ryan (1842-?)
1886-1890
Robert Monteith (1843-1930)
1890-1892
Robert Smith
1892-1897
Robert Monteith (1843-1930)
1897-1900
Thomas Shannon
1900-1902
James Wellington Smaill (1860-1937)
1902-1908
John Hannah (1857-1923)
1908-1915
James Miller
1915-1929
Howard Brown
1929-1937
Thomas R. Gregory
1937-1949
Benjamin E. Shaw
1949-1953
Alexander Cochrane
1953-1957
S. J. Tripp
1957-1959
Alexander Cochrane
1959-1971
S. J. Tripp
1971-1972
?
1972-1975
J. M. Chapman
1975-1985
Gordon Leonard Church (1913-1985)
1985-1989
Ivan C. Lawson
1989-2005?
Wayne Nichol
2007
Memorable Manitobans
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Historic Sites
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History Books
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Maps
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Sources
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
In View of Turtle Hill: A Survey of the History of Southwestern Manitoba to 1900 by Norman E. Wright, MA thesis, University of Manitoba, 1951.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 June 2022
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