A recent visitor to my blog, who is no doubt a proud Kildonanite, took pains to inform me as to the history of his fine neighborhood after having read my
post about whether or not Kildonan was a separate entity from the city of Winnipeg. Here is his comment:
You are wrong in saying that Kildonan was not a separate area from Winnipeg. There was a municipality of Kildonan from 1875 to 1914. In 1914 this divided into East and West Kildonan in 1914, two separate municipalities. In 1922 Old Kildonan separated from West Kildonan becoming a separate municipality. In 1925 North Kildonan separated from East Kildonan becoming a municipality. In 1957 East Kildonan became a city while West Kildonan became a city in 1961. In 1972 the four Kildonan’s became part of Winnipeg along with the cities of St. Boniface, St. Vital, Transcona and St James Assinobia with the municipalities of Fort Garry and Charleswood along with the town of Tuxedo and the old city of Winnipeg. -Jim Smith
2 comments:
Hmmmm....
I was looking at this map of Manitoba from 1921 the other day, and there is no appearance of 'Kildonan' as far as I can see. I did another search after reading this post, and found a later map from 1941, but there is no indication of any of the Kildonans on it either, though Transcona, Ft. Garry, Tuxedo, St. Vital are clearly visible, and possibly even 'Charles'-something - the latter map is somewhat hard to read.
Controversy??
There is no controversy regarding the Kildonan's I grew up in this area and have studied the various council minutes books and other historical documents. They existed, case closed.
Jim Smith
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