Manitoba Communities: Winnipeg (City)

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This municipality formed around the former fur trade post of Upper Fort Garry.

Present Status	City of Winnipeg (1 January 1972)
Incorporation History	City of Winnipeg (8 November 1873) Amalgamation of Assiniboia, Brooklands, Charleswood, East Kildonan, Fort Garry, North Kildonan, Old Kildonan, St. Boniface, St. James, St. Vital, Transcona, Tuxedo, West Kildonan, and Winnipeg (1 January 1972)
Adjoining Municipalities	East St. Paul, Headingley, Macdonald, Ritchot, Rosser, Springfield, West St. Paul
Constituent Communities	Assiniboia, Brooklands, Charleswood, East Kildonan, Elmwood, Fort Garry, North Kildonan, Norwood, Old Kildonan, St. Boniface, St. James, St. Vital, Transcona, Tuxedo, West Kildonan, Wolseley
Land Area (square km)	464.33

Population

Year	Total
1881	7985
1891	25639
1901	42340
1906	90153
1911	136025
1916	176230
1921	199055
1926	215079
1931	218785
1936	215814
1941	221960
1946	229045
1951	235710
1956	255093
1961	265429
1966	257005
1971	246246
1976	560874
1981	564473
1986	594551
1991	616790
1996	618477
2001	619544
2006	633451
2011	663617
2016	705244
2021	749607

Mayors

Term	Mayor
1873-1874	Francis Evans Cornish (1831-1878)
1874-1876	William Nassau Kennedy (1839-1885)
1876-1878	Thomas Scott (1841-1915)
1878-1880	Alexander Logan (1841-1894)
1880-1881	Elias George Conklin (1845-1901)
1881-1882	Alexander Logan (1841-1894)
1882-1883	Alexander McMicken (1837-1916)
1883-1884	Alexander Logan (1841-1894)
1884-1885	Charles Edward Hamilton (1844-1919)
1885-1886	Henry Shaver Wesbrook (1842-1913)
1886-1888	Lyman Melvin Jones (1843-1917)
1888-1889	Thomas Ryan (1849-?)
1889-1891	Alfred Pearson (1850-1921)
1891-1892	Alexander Macdonald (1843-1928)
1892-1894	Thomas William Taylor (1852-1924)
1894-1895	Thomas Gilroy (1848-1905)
1895-1896	Richard Willis Jameson (1851-1899)
1896-1897	William Forsythe McCreary (1855-1905)
1897-1899	Alfred Joseph Andrews (1865-1950)
1899-1900	John Fletcher Mitchell (1862-1943) - Acting
1900	Horace Wilson (1848-c1903)
1900-1903	John Arbuthnot (1861-1931)
1903-1906	Thomas Sharpe (1866-1929)
1906-1908	James Henry Ashdown (1844-1924)
1908-1911	William Sanford Evans(1869-1950)
1911-1912	Richard Deans Waugh (1868-1938)
1912-1914	Thomas Russ Deacon (1865-1955)
1914-1916	Richard Deans Waugh (1868-1938)
1916-1918	Frederick Harvey Davidson (1865-1935)
1918-1920	Charles Frederick Gray (1879-1954)
1920-1922	Edward Parnell (1859-1922)
1922	Frank Oliver Fowler (1861-1945)
1922-1924	Seymour James Farmer (1878-1951)
1924-1927	Ralph Humphreys Webb (1886-1945)
1927-1929	Daniel McLean (1868-1950)
1929-1934	Ralph Humphreys Webb (1886-1945)
1934-1936	John Queen (1882-1946)
1936-1937	Frederick Edgar Warriner (1884-1966)
1937-1942	John Queen (1882-1946)
1942-1954	Garnet Coulter (1882-1975)
1954-1956	George Edward Sharpe (1908-1985)
1956-1977	Stephen Juba (1914-1993)
1977-1979	Robert Ashley Steen (1933-1979)
1979-1992	William “Bill” Norrie (1929-2012)
1992-1998	Susan Ann Thompson
1998-2004	Glen Ronald Murray
2004-2014	Samuel M. “Sam” Katz
2014-2022	Brian Bowman
2022-?	Scott Gillingham

Aldermen / Councillors (1874-2023)

Surname begins: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Councillor	Term(s)
Frank W. Adams (1861-1935)	1907-1911
Matt Allard	2014-2023
William Forbes Alloway (1852-1930)	1876-1877, 1879-1880
Ernest Robert Andrew “Ernie” Anderson (1901-1977)	1961
Victor Bjorn Anderson (1882-1970)	1933-1936, 1940-1954
Alfred Joseph Andrews (1865-1950)	1894-1897
George Albert Fletcher Andrews (1856-1890)	1890
Herbert Andrews (1888-1935)	1930-1935
John Angus	1977-1988, 1992-2005
John Arbuthnot (1861-1931)	1897-1898
Heber Archibald (1846-1941)	1885
James Henry Ashdown (1844-1924)	1874, 1879
Henry Charles “Charlie” Avery (1909-1992)	1959-1960
B
Charles Baker	1971-1974
George William Baker (1854-1917)	1888, 1897-1898
Alice Balsillie	1980-1983
Archibald James Bannerman (1862-1928)	1895-1896
William Ward Banning (1842-1885)	1876
Robert Barclay (1840-1907)	1900-1903
Paul Bardal (1889-1966)	1932-1941
James Alexander Barry (1886-1950)	1922-1937
William Bathgate (1832-1903)	1882
Nicholas Bawlf (1849-1914)	1883-1884
H. T. Bell	1889
W. G. Bell	1897-1898, 1900
Donald Benham	2004-2006
Albert Edward Bennett (1906-1968)	1955-1960
Andrew Bileski [Bilecki] (1903-1992)	1938-1939
Charles Birt	1980-1983
Alexander Black (1847-1913)	1887-1890, 1896
James Black	1942-1953
Thomas Blaine	1961-1962
Sedley Blanchard (1849-1886)	1879
John “Jack” Blumberg (1892-1961)	1920-1956
Robert Theodore “Bob” Bockstael (1923-2017)	1973-1979
David Wesley Bole (1856-1933)	1893-1894
Arthur Louis Bond (1870-1948)	1912-1914
LeRoy Franklin Borrowman (c1885-1957)	1930-1932
Kenneth George “Ken” Bowyer (c1924-1961)	1961
Rick Boychuk	1989-1995
Thomas Boyd	1921-1930
John Bredin	1876
Ernest A. Brotman (1899-1986)	1943-1950, 1967-1971
Jeff Browaty	2006-2023
Alexander Brown	1877-1879
David Melville “Dave” Brown (1946-2016)	1984-1992
George Brown	1884
Raymond "Ray" Brunka	1974-1977
William Brydon (1847-1930)	1883
James Burridge (1841-1912)	1883
Alfred W. Burrows	1877
C
Alexander Calder (1842-1936)	1892-1893
Joshua Calloway (1830-1921)	1884, 1886-1891
John Robson Cameron (1845-1907)	1874-1875, 1882-1883
Colin Howell Campbell (1859-1914)	1889
Christopher Campbell (1865-1931)	1900-1907
George Huestis Campbell (1855-1928)	1885-1886
Stanley Mirus “Stan” Carrick (1911-1982)	1953-1954, 1956-1957
George Frederick Carruthers (1846-1918)	1885, 1892-1894, 1900-1901
Robert Cartwright	1972-1974
Edward Cass (1849-1932)	1909-1911
Benjamin Elswood Chaffey (1859-1953)	1894-1897, 1901-1902
Markus Chambers	2018-2023
Lawrie Cherniack	1971-1974
Saul Mark Cherniack	1959-1960
Frank Leslie Chester (1901-1966)	1947-1950
Colin Campbell “Cam” Chisholm (1883-1936)	1926-1927
Douglas Chisholm	1956-1957
William “Bill” Chornopyski (1922-2002)	1974-1985
Gordon Campbell Chown (1922-2002)	1952-1955
Willoughby Clark	1875
Leonard Harold Claydon (1915-1971)	1961-1968, 1969-1971
William Ralph “Bill” Clement (1948-2010)	1983-2010
Kenneth Cochrane	1971-1972
Isaac Cockburn (1841-1927)	1918-1919
John Wesley Cockburn (1856-1924)	1891-1892, 1901-1906
Elias George Conklin (1845-1901)	1877-1880
Leslie Cooney	1941-1942
Al Coopman	1971-1974
Francis Evans Cornish (1831-1878)	1876, 1878
Brian M. Corrin	1974-1977
Garnet Coulter (1882-1975)	1937-1942
James Arthur Coulter (1916-2005)	1959-1960
James Cowan (1914-1997)	1955-1958
Thomas Cowan	1899
Frederick John Charles Cox (1860-1939)	1904-1909
George Craig (c1841-1915)	1895-1896
Frederick Walter Crawford (1889-1967)	1955-1964
Joseph Cropo	1965-1971
Henry Samuel Crotty (1843-1923)	1885
George Reading Crowe (1852-1924)	1885, 1912-1916
Wilhem Alexander Cuddy (1890-1945)	1931-1932
H. Currie	1889
D
Louise Dacquay	1986-1988
Mark Harold Danzker (1902-1995)	1960-1968
Albert T. Davidson (1861-1948)	1906-1907
Frederick Harvey Davidson (1865-1935)	1912-1916, 1920-1929, 1932-1933, 1935
Matthew Davis	1875
A. Dawson	1892-1894
Doreen Demare	1986-1992
Michael Dennehy	1971-1974
Peter De Smedt	1998-2006
Peter Diamant	1990-1992
Geoffrey L. “Geoff” Dixon (1921-2006)	1971-1977
Shawn Dobson	2022-2023
Edwin Doidge	1881
Robert Oliver “Bob” Douglas (1932-2012)	1982-1991
William Douglas (1878-1963)	1921-1922
William Gregg Douglas (1863-1936)	1908-1911
Stanley Dowhan (1927-1993)	1971-1974
Edward Lancaster Drewry (1851-1940)	1883-1884
Albert “Al” Ducharme (1937-2013)	1971-1985
Gerry Ducharme	1980-1986
Terry Duguid	1989-1995
Evan Duncan	2022-2023
Thomas Dunlop	1877
Robert Durward (1885-1970)	1925-1926, 1928-1931
David J. Dyson	1897-1899
E
Jae Eadie	1980-2006
Ross Eadie	2010-2023
Arthur Francis Eden (c1852-?)	1879
William Thomas Edgecombe (1868-?)	1916-1917
Arni Eggertsson (1873-?)	1907-1908, 1917
D. M. Elcheshen	1938
Magnus Eliason (1911-2005)	1968-1970, 1974-1977, 1980-1989
Ernest John “Ernie” Enns (1920-2006)	1961-1968
Harry Enns	1971-1974
James “Jim” Ernest	1973-1986
F
Seymour James Farmer (1878-1951)	1928-1929
Taras Dmytro Ferley (1882-1947)	1932-1933
Gary Albert Filmon	1976-1979
Gordon Richard Fines (1911-1990)	1954-1960, 1967-1971
Moses Finkelstein (1873-1939)	1905-1906
Albert H. Fisher (1896-1982)	1948-1949
George Fisher (1862-1922)	1918-1921
Larry Fleisher	1979-1992
Joseph Fletcher	1888-1890
Thomas Flye (1874-1943)	1922-1943
William Gomez da Fonseca (1823-1905)	1874-1878, 1880
Martin “Joe” Forkin Jr. (1899-1962)	1935-1951, 1961-1962
Mark Fortune (1847-1912)	1879-1881, 1883
Frank Oliver Fowler (1861-1945)	1908-1922
George Fraser	1989-1995
A. Frederickson	1892
Henry Fry (1859-1933)	1898-1901, 1904-1905
Olga Fuga	1971-1974
G
Kenneth J. Galanchuk	1971-1977
Curtis John Gee (c1937-1987)	1971-1977
Jenny Gerbasi	1998-2018
Donald Ira “Don” Gerrie (1925-1992)	1974-1989
James Cunningham Gibson (1855-?)	1903-1908
Scott Gillingham	2014-2022
Cindy Gilroy	2018-2023
Ernie Gilroy	1986-1992
Thomas Gilroy (1848-1905)	1891-1894
John Girdlestone Glassco (1879-1948)	1945-1946
Allan Richard “Al” Golden (1946-2022)	1988-2000
Paul W. Goodman (1905-1959)	1954-1959
James Robert Gowler (1858-1920)	1907-1912
Colwell Esson “Charlie” Graham (1886-1959)	1946-1951
Herbert Gray (1866-1924)	1911-1924
Morris Abraham Gray (1887-1966)	1931-1942
William Grundy (1850-1925)	1887-1889
Cecil Herbert Gunn (1892-1941)	1932-1935
H
John Hacket	1875
Ernest Eskil Hallonquist (1899-1952)	1943-1952
Lillian Margaret Travers Hallonquist (1901-1985)	1953-1971
William Andrew “Bill” Hallonquist (1931-2002)	1971-1977
George Henry Ham (1847-1926)	1883-1884, 1887
Robert H. Hamlin (1877-?)	1918-1919
John G. Hargrave	1889
Peter Harkness (c1845-1896)	1886
John Gurzon Harvey (1906-1970)	1945-1970
James Graham Harvey (1840-1923)	1883, 1899-1906
Paula Havixbeck	2010-2014
Abram Albert Heaps (1885-1954)	1917-1925
J. B. Henderson	1893-1894
William Hespeler (1830-1921)	1876, 1878
Hilda Hesson (1883-1968)	1940-1947
John Higgins (1807-1884)	1874
Terrance John Hind (1920-2007)	1962-1965
Charles Hislop (1841-1919)	1896-1897
Egbert Douglas Honeyman (1886-1969)	1929-1938
John William Horne (1855-1917)	1898-1901, 1904-1905
Norman Hudson	1971-1980
A. Hume	1917-1918
Elisha Frederick Hutchings (1855-1930)	1887-1888, 1894-1895
Sandy Hyman	1991-1995
I
Elizabeth Louise “Betty” Ireton (1921-2004)	1974-1977
J
Samuel Jacob Jackson (1848-1942)	1877-1878, 1880
W. A. James	1924-1925
Richard Willis Jameson (1851-1899)	1892-1895
Edward W. Jarvis (?-1894)	1876
Robert Johannson	1971-1977
Frank Johnson	1975-1983
Herbert Jones	1920-1927
Lyman Melvin Jones (1843-1917)	1886
Anne Jorowski (1918-2016)	1974-1989
K
Morris Kaufman	1971-1977
Peter Kaufmann	1989-1992
Cyril Keeper	1977-1980
Charles William Nassau Kennedy (1866-?)	1894-1899
Samuel Sinnott “Sam” Kennedy (1877-1961)	1928-1929
Jessie Kirk (1877-1965)	1921-1922
Kevin Klein	2018-2022
Adam Klym	1971-1977
Bill G. Knight	1974-1977
Stanley Howard Knowles (1908-1997)	1941-1942
William N. Kolisnyk (1887-1967)	1927-1930
Edward Joseph Albert “Ed” Kotowich (1934-1986)	1971-1980
Henry Kozlowski	1975-1977
L
James Gerald Latimer (1842-1927)	1901-1906
Marcel Laurendeau	1988-1990
Harry Lazarenko (1937-2021)	1974-1977, 1983-2010
John Osborne LeCappellain (1854-1925)	1881
Ernest Tennyson Leech (1876-1961)	1923-1930
Lorne Arthur Leech (1927-2005)	1971-1980
Brenda Leipsic	2006-2008
Alexander Robert Leonard (1869-1942)	1922-1929
Lansing M. Lewis (1854-1927)	1889
D. M. Lineham	1915-1916
Alexander Logan (1841-1894)	1874-1878
William James Long (1877-1923)	1913-1916
William Bertram Lowe (1881-1952)	1929-1930, 1933-1936
Mark Lubosch	1995-2006
Janice Lukes	2014-2023
Thomas Lusted	1875-1876
William H. Lyon (c1833-1897)	1878
M
Alexander Macdonald (1844-1928)	1887-1888
Harold MacDonald	1979-1988
Ronald C. MacDonald (1857-1918)	1909-1914
Hugh Mackenzie (1884-1949)	1939-1940
Kenneth Mackenzie	1889-1890
Allan L. MacLean	1918-1919
George Peterkin MacLeod (1893-1961)	1951-1952
Franco Magnifico	2004-2006
Nick Malanchuk	1970-1971
Robert Allison Cayne Manning (1878-1929)	1907-1908
Joseph Paul Marion (1927-2023)	1971-1973
George Marshall	1986-1988
Edward Daniel Martin (1856-1938)	1898-1899
John B. Mather (c1846-1892)	1890-1891
Thomas Graham Mathers (1859-1927)	1898-1899
Ralph Maybank (1890-1965)	1930-1931
Brian M. Mayes	2011-2023
Archibald A. McArthur (1845-1912)	1906-1908
Alexander McArthur	1879-1880
David Graham McBain (1831-1897)	1883
Peter McCalman	1906-1907
James H. McCarthy (1863-?)	1902-1903
Alexander McCharles	1904-1905
William Forsythe McCreary (1855-1904)	1884, 1895-1896
Jane Dagg McGovern “Maude” McCreery (1890-1983)	1950-1957
Thomas McCrossan (1834-1927)	1883
John Stewart McDiarmid (1882-1965)	1926
Malcolm McDiarmid	1958-1959
Duncan McDonald	1886-1889
Kenneth Nathaniel Logan McDonald (1851-1905)	1884
Stuart McDonald	1884-1885
Horace McDougall (1846-1915)	1878, 1891
Douglas McEwen	1972-1974
William “Bill” McGarva (1906-1991)	1961-1968, 1971-1974, 1977-1980
Pearl Kathryne McGonigal	1971-1981
Christine McKee	1989-1991
Howard V. McKelvey (c1911-1958)	1947-1958
John A. McKerchar (1862-?)	1921-1934
Daniel McLean (1868-1950)	1907-1910, 1921-1927, 1931-1932, 1935-1942
James McLenaghan	1874-1875
Alexander McLennan (1851-1921)	1913-1919
Grant McLeod (1900-1976)	1962-1963, 1965-1966
Lendrum McMeans (1859-1941)	1909-1910
Alexander McMicken (1837-1916)	1875, 1881-1882, 1890-1891
H. G. McMicken	1876-1877
W. W. McMillan	1881-1882
James M. McGregor McNabb	1882
Archibald McNee (1845-1925)	1877, 1886
George Duncan MacVicar (1846-1889)	1883
Margaret Stovel McWilliams (1875-1952)	1934-1940
Gloria Mendelson	1989-1992
Gerald W. “Gerry” Mercier	1971-1977
Charles Midwinter (1851-1939)	1908-1912
M. H. Miller	1887
William Ryde Milton (1871-1959)	1909-1916
George Minaker	1971-1973
John Fletcher Mitchell (1862-?)	1897-1900
Don Mitchelson	1980-1992
Robert E. Moffatt	1965-1967
Albert Monkman (1850-1918)	1881-1882
Christopher C. Montgomery (1852-1902)	1878, 1880-1881, 1883
Edwin D. Moore	1886
James “Jim” Moore	1977-1983
John Byron More	1874, 1877-1882
Henry Cyrus “Harry” Morrison (?-?)	1937-1948
Robert Muir (1850-1908)	1892
Max Mulder (1924-2001)	1969-1971
David Adrian Mulligan (1893-1981)	1944-1945, 1949-1950, 1953-1954, 1956, 1958-1967
Robert Mulvey	1874
Stewart Mulvey (1834-1908)	1883-1888
George Munroe	1971-1974
J. G. Munroe (1873-?)	1911-1916
Glen Ronald Murray	1989-1998
N
Llewelyn Arthur Nares (1860-1939)	1893
Shawn Nason	2018-2022
William Franklin Wymark “Bill” Neville	1979-1989
William Newton (1875-1960)	1906-1907
J. S. Nicholson	1892
Thomas Nixon (1823-1904)	1883
Grant Nordman	2006-2014
Rurik “Ric” Nordman (1919-1996)	1974-1981
William “Bill” Norrie (1929-2012)	1971-1979
O
Henry Oelkers (1902-1963)	1933-1934
John O’Hare (1876-1964)	1921-1929
David Orlikow (1919-1998)	1951-1958
John Orlikow	2009-2023
Mike O'Shaughnessy	1974-1980, 1986-2010
William J. Ovens	1882-1883
P
Mike Pagtakhan	2002-2018
J. Fred Palmer	1927-1930
Paul Parashin	1959-1971
Roy Hamilton Parkhill (1931-2002)	1971-1977
Alfred Pearson (1850-1921)	1885-1886
John Henry Pearson	1880
Alfred Penner	1971-1977
Jacob Penner (1880-1968)	1934-1940, 1943-1952, 1954-1961
James Penrose (1845-1918)	1886-1887
Donald Edward Perry (1936-2004)	1971-1977
John Petley	1940-1941
Pat Phillips	1995-1998
T. G. Phillips	1885
Florence Lillian Pierce (1905-2007)	1971-1977
Harold Piercy	1977-1980
Alexander Polson (1840-1905)	1887-1888
Samuel Polson	1884
Joseph Armour Potter (1871-?)	1908-1912
Helen Mitchell Promislow (1924-1993)	1980-1989
George Reginald Provost (1936-2002)	1977-1980
John Prystanski	1989-2002
Alfred Henry Pulford (1865-1937)	1906-1907, 1917-1921, 1923-1928
Q
John Queen (1882-1946)	1916-1921
R
James “Jim” Ragsdill	1977-1986
Slaw Rebchuk (1907-1996)	1950-1978
Evelyne M. Reese	1974-1977, 1980-1985, 1989-1995
James Rice	1877
Cecil Rice-Jones (1881-1972)	1931-1936
Albert Elswood Richards (1848-1917)	1894-1896
Richard “Dickie” Arthur Rigg (1872-1964)	1914-1915
Robert Thomas Riley (1851-1944)	1887-1888, 1908-1909
David A. Ritchie (1855-1942)	1902-1903
Philip Antonio “Phil / Tony” Rizzuto (1926-2004)	1971-1983
A. J. Roberts	1930-1931
E. Robinson	1919-1920
Finlay P. Roblin	1876
Sherri Rollins	2018-2023
Robert “Bob” Rose	1986-1987
Donald Andrew Ross (1857-1937)	1889-1893, 1899-1900
Eldon M. Ross (1931-2016)	1971-1980
I. M. Ross	1895-1896
William R. Ross	1880-1881
John Russell (c1854-1904)	1901-1904
Michael Ruta	1974-1977
Thomas Ryan (1849-1937)	1885-1888
Alfred Argue Ryley (1861-1932)	1931-1932
S
J. V. Samson	1960-1961
Henry “Harry” Sandison (1861-1942)	1905-1906
Vivian Santos	2018-2023
Richard Allan Sara (1888-1963)	1937-1944
William H. Sasaki	1971-1975
Guy Marcel Savoie (1934-2023)	1979-1988
Jason Schreyer	2014-2023
A. Scoble	1917
Henry Baird “Hank” Scott (1898-1972)	1943-1958
Thomas Scott (1841-1915)	1874
William Scraba (1907-1971)	1941-1946
Gregory Francis “Greg” Selinger	1989-1992
Devi Sharma	2010-2023
George Edward Sharpe (1908-1985)	1947-1954
Thomas Sharpe (1866-1929)	1900-1903
Robert James Shore (1883-1952)	1910-1914, 1922-1928
Amaro Silva	1992-1998
Charles Edward Simonite (1879-1973)	1930-1933, 1936-1955
James Simpkin (1875-1946)	1923-1946
William Boad Simpson (1877-1952)	1915-1917, 1919-1934
Dugald Sinclair	1875
Duncan Sinclair	1877
Alter David “Albert” Skaletar (1870-1964)	1913-1917
Alfred J. Skowron	1971-1988
Charles Rhodes Smith (1896-1993)	1935, 1937-1938
Daniel Smith	1890-1891
Donald “Don” Smith	1976-1980
Harvey Smith (1936-2017)	1980-1986, 1998-2014
James Gordon “Jim” Smith (1932-2001)	1971-1974
John Kerr Sparling (1872-1941)	1917-1922
John Tully “Jock” Speirs (1860-1925)	1899-1900
Charles Harold Spence (1925-1987)	1959-1961
George B. Spencer (1812-1886)	1885
J. C. Sproule	1893-1896
Jack St. John (1906-1965)	1944-1953
Douglas Moncreiff “Doug” Stanes (1917-2001)	1969-1977
Norman P. Stapon	1971-1977
Garth Steek	1995-2004
John Steel	1986-1988
Robert Ashley Steen (1933-1979)	1971-1977
Warren J. Steen (1940-2009)	1970-1975
Gord Steeves	2000-2011
T. Stefanik	1912-1913
Eric Stefanson	1982-1989
J. Stepnuk	1942-1949
Hugh Leonard Stevens (1922-2001)	1958-1959
Lloyd Cleworth Stinson (1904-1976)	1943-1944, 1964-1971
Matthew William Stobart (1884-1966)	1934-1939
Andrew Strang (1849-1913)	1874, 1881
Robert Strang (1833-1900)	1878-1881
James Stuart (1853-1925)	1897
John Godfrey Sullivan (1863-1938)	1920-1927
William Sumner	1886
Donald Sutherland	1882-1883
Donovan Swailes (1892-1984)	1960-1969
Justin Swandel	2005-2014
Herbert Swinford	1874
T
Robert Tremaine Taft (1904-1990)	1968-1974
Peter Stanley Taraska (1907-1984)	1951-1962
Harold Taylor	1983-1988
Thomas William Taylor (1852-1924)	1889-1891
Edith Irene Tennant (1898-1989)	1958-1967
William B. Thibadeau	1874
Lillian Thomas	1989-2010
Frederick George Thompson (1886-1972)	1936-1943
Donovan Timmers	1988-1992
Shirley Timm-Rudolph	1986-1992, 1995-2002
Inez Geneva Gandrud Trueman (1917-2015)	1968-1969
Alexander Turk (1906-1988)	1963-1964
U
V
Daniel “Dan” Vandal	1995-2004, 2006-2014
John Villiers	1875-1876
Jon Jonnson Vopni (1864-1956)	1917-1918
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Terry Wachniak	1986-1988
Alan C. Wade (1923-2013)	1963-1964, 1966-1992
Frank Wagner	1952-1953, 1955-1958
Sampson Walker (1843-1933)	1891
John James Wallace (1865-1936)	1910-1915
Richard Alan “Dick” Wankling (1926-2004)	1971-1976
John Wells	1902-1903
George Henry West (1853-1906)	1892-1893
June Alwyn Westbury (1921-2004)	1970-1979
Jack Lester Wiginton (1876-1951)	1917-1920
J. Willoughby	1908-1911
Charles Hurst Wilson (1861-1924)	1897-1898
George M. Wilson	1881-1884
Horace Wilson (1848-c1903)	1895-1899
John T. Wilson	1890-1891
R. A. Wilson	1883
Robert Wilson	1971-1975
Thomas Wilson	1907-1908
Charles W. Wishart	1884
Isadore “Issy” Wolch (1908-2006)	1963-1968
Bernard Rodolph “Bernie” Wolfe (1922-2014)	1971-1977
Joseph Wolf	1890
Kenneth S. “Ken” Wong	1974-1977
Alexander Wood	1886
Daniel David Wood (1859-1925)	1901, 1903-1904
Archibald Francis Wright (1842-1912)	1874-1876, 1879-1880
James A. Wright	1882
R. Wyatt	1892-1893
Reg Wyatt	1983-1986
Russ Wyatt	2002-2018, 2022-2023
James R. Wynne	1904-1907
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Y
Daniel Abraham “Abe” Yanofsky (1925-2000)	1971-1986
David Young (1848-1887)	1879
George H. Young	1885
Roger Young	1989-1992
Joseph Yuen	1989-1992
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Joseph Zuken (1912-1986)	1962-1983

City Clerks

Term	City Clerk
1874-1882	Alexander McDougall “A. M.” Brown (1820-1895)
1882-1926	Charles James “Charlie” Brown (1855-1926)
1926-1935	Magnus Peterson (1883-1935)
1935-1945	George Frederick Bentley (1880-1958)
1945-1948	Leslie Montague Ault (1892-1951)
1948-1962	George Lindsay Gardner (1901-1997)
1962-1964	James Brown Kinnear (1903-1991)
1964-1966	Thomas Mitchell
1966-1976	William Alfred “Bill” Quayle (c1912-2009)
1976-1979	Herbert Edgar “Herb” Sanger (1918-2009)
1979-1986	Robert James “Bob” Fergusson (1927-2017)
1986-1987	Merle McCullough
1987-1991	Robert Beverley “Bob” Hayes (1931-2020)
1991-1992	Douglas “Doug” King - Acting
1992-1999	Dorothy Browton
2000-2018	Richard Kachur
2018-present	Marc Lemoine

Chief Commissioners / Chief Administrative Officers

Term	Chief Commissioner / Chief Administrative Officers
1989-1997	Rick Frost

Board of Control (1907-1918)

The Board of Control, established in 1907, dealt with all financial matters and generally managed the affairs of the City until it was abolished by referendum in December 1918.

Board Member	Term
John William Astley (1848-1931)	1916
Joel Weaver “J. W.” Baker (1864-1933)	1907-1908
John Wesley Cockburn (1856-1924)	1907-1918
William Gregg Douglas (1863-1936)	1912-1913
William Sanford Evans (1869-1949)	1908
William Corston Watt Garson (1856-1911)	1907
Charles Frederick Gray (1879-1954)	1917-1918
James Graham Harvey (1840-1923)	1907-1912
James Gerald Latimer (1842-1927)	1908
Archibald A. McArthur (1845-1912)	1909-1912
Frederick Joseph Gustin McArthur (1874-?)	1913-1915
Daniel McLean (1868-1950)	1913-1914
Charles Midwinter (1851-1939)	1913-1915
Arthur W. Puttee (1868-1957)	1917-1918
Robert James Shore (1883-1952)	1915-1916
John James Wallace (1865-1936)	1916-1918
Richard Deans Waugh (1868-1938)	1909-1911

Police Chiefs

Term	Police Chief
1874-1875	John S. Ingram (1853-1905)
1875-1887	David B. Murray (1844-1908)
1887-1911	John C. McRae (1858-1921)
1911-1919	Donald MacPherson (1875-1954)
1919-1934	Christopher Hugh Newton (1871-1953)
1934-1947	George Smith (1882-1963)
1947-1953	Charles MacIver (1887-1973)
1954-1965	Robert Tremaine Taft (1904-1990)
1965-1970	George Sydney Blow (1909-1994)
1970-1981	Norman MacGregor Stewart (1916-1998)
1981-1984	Kenneth Johnston
1984-1992	Herbert B. Stephen
1992-1996	J. B. Dale Henry
1996-1998	David A. Cassels
1998-2007	Jack Ewatski
2007-2012	Keith McCaskill
2012-2017	Devon Clunis
2017-?	Danny Smyth

Fire Chiefs

The first fire department was formed in 1882, a volunteer body with paid officers. The first paid department was formed in 1899 under Chief John Buchanan.

Term	Fire Chief
1882-1889	William Orme McRobie (1838-1908)
1889-1895	William “Billy” Code (1848-1940)
1895-1899	Edward Herbert Rodgers (1857-1950)
1899-1928	John Ernest Buchanan (1862-1938)
1928-1947	Donald Alexander Boulden (1893-1967)
1947-1956	David Clawson (1891-1961)
1957-1964	David Sutherland Dunnett (1899-1990)
1964-1967	Cecil Leckie (1902-1986)
1967-1977	Cameron Nelson Wilson Shewan (1912-2001)
1978-1981	John Thomas “Jack” Coulter (1921-2012)
1981-1984	Thomas Lloyd Moist (1922-2012)
1985-1991	John K. “Jack” Henderson (1927-2012)
1991-1998	Barrie J. Lough
1998-2007	H. Shoemaker [Chief, Emergency Response Services / Fire Paramedic Service]
2007-2011	Jim Brennan [Chief, Fire Paramedic Service]
2011-2013	Reid J. Douglas
2014-?	John A. Lane

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Contact Information

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510 Main Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1B9
Telephone: 1-877-311-4974
Email: 311@winnipeg.ca

Sources:

“New city clerk named,” Winnipeg Tribune, 12 May 1964, page 19.

“Masson may succeed Mitchell as city clerk,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 January 1966, page 3.

“Speaker’s ruling sparked brief outbreak of violence in Winnipeg 98 years ago,” Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 1971, page 18.

“Fire chief appointed,” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 January 1991, page 9.

“Outgoing fire chief blazed trail in city,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 June 1998, page A12.

“Emergency response chief haunted by Hamilton fire,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 November 1998, page A10.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

“Fire, paramedics pleased with new chief,” Winnipeg Free Press, 1 May 2007, page A4.

“Fire Paramedic boss hanging up hat,” Winnipeg Free Press, 6 August 2011, page A5.

“New Fire paramedic chief named,” Winnipeg Free Press, 8 December 2011, page A2.

“Reid Douglas no longer chief of WFPS,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 September 2013.

“City’s new fire chief announced,” Winnipeg Free Press, 28 March 2014.

“Closeted councillor a victim of the times [Charles H. Spence]” by Christian Cassidy, Winnipeg Free Press, 17 December 2017.

We thank the City of Winnipeg Archives for providing a list of city councillors from 1874 to 1971, Larry Klassen for providing a list of Fire Chiefs, and Nathan Kramer and Rick Donovan for providing additional information.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 15 September 2023