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Manitoba Communities: Westbourne (Unincorporated Rural Municipality)
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This municipality was named for Westbourne Street in London, England on which missionary Henry George once resided.
Present Status
Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone (1 January 2015)
Incorporation History
Municipality of Westbourne (3 November 1873)
Rural Municipality of Westbourne (1 December 1877)
Divided to form North Norfolk (1881), Gladstone (1882), Lakeview (1920), part of Glenella (1920), and Alonsa (1945)
Amalgamation of Gladstone, Lakeview, and Westbourne (1 January 2015)Adjoining Municipalities
Alonsa, Lakeview, Lansdowne, North Norfolk, Portage la Prairie
Constituent Communities
Cawdor, Colby, Gladstone, Golden Stream, Katrime, Mayfeld, Muir, Ogilvie, Plumas, Totogan, Wellington, Woodside
Land Area (square km)
1261.79
Population
Year
Total
1891
1519
1896
1690
1901
2407
1911
3150
1921
3185
1931
2708
1941
3179
1951
3296
1956
3221
1961
2886
1966
2814
1971
2512
1976
2170
1981
2017
1986
2006
1991
1957
1996
2035
2001
2017
2006
1906
2011
1878
Reeves
Term
Reeve
1878
Thomas Cory (1835-1920)
1879
A. E. Smalley
1880-1881
Thomas Cory (1835-1920)
1882-1883
J. L. Logie
1884
A. E. Smalley
1885
W. H. West
1886-1899
A. E. Smalley
1900-1903
John Ferguson
1904-1905
John K. Hall
1906-1908
William McKelvie
1909-1914
John Henry Davey
1915-1921
David Smith (1867-?)
1922-1928
William Morton (1884-1958)
1929-1943
D. A. Broadfoot
1944-1945
Edward Sayer “Ted” Browning (1879-1958)
1946-1966
Clifford Alexander McCrae (1894-1966)
1967-1992
Haldor Robert “Dori” Bjarnarson (1923-2011)
1993-1998
Duncan Earl Broadfoot (1942-2010)
1999-2005
Ed Stroeder
2006
?
2007-2014
David Single
2015
Memorable Manitobans
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Maps
Sources
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 May 2020
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