Chesterfield, R.M. of

Home Town or Home Community:  including former RMs of Great Canadian and Mantario

Our Story:

A History of the Rural Municipality of Chesterfield

The Rural Municipality of Chesterfield, No. 261, was formed in 1968 through the amalgamation of the former 9-township municipality of Royal Canadian, No. 261, and the former 12-township municipality of Mantario, No.262. There are significant dissimilarities in the land base, the histories and pre-histories of these original municipalities.

The history of pre-settlement time does not go back far in the Rural Municipality of Chesterfield. In the18th C, and, for a time during the 19th, one tribe, the Atsinsa, called Gros Ventre (Big Bellies) by white traders, were a powerful presence in the area, and were responsible for much of the violence near the forks of the Red Deer and Saskatchewan Rivers, on land which later became a part of the Mantario rural municipality. The Atsina split from the Arapaho in about 1700. They soon extended their hunting grounds as far north as a the present site of Nipawin.

They were weakened when other tribes obtained horses and firearms. Shoshone traders brought horses to the Blackfoot Confederacy about 1730, and the Cree, to the east, obtained guns early in the fur-trade era. The Atsina, having neither, were gradually crowded southward. Blaming white traders for their misfortunes, the Atsinsa, in 1794, attacked the South Branch Houses, pillaging and killing at the Hudson’s Bay Company post. Consequently, they were interdicted by all the fur companies and were forced to trade through intermediaries, a role which was assumed by the Blackfoot – for a price. Their reluctant reliance on the Blackfoot probably accounts for their presence north of Red Deer Forks just before 1800. There, they were to kill again.

The Cabri Lake hills, land within the former Mantario municipality, was good habitat. It incorporates a broad spine of high ground marked by a spreading array of stone configurations. Near Cabri Lake is a pattern of stones known locally as the Cabri Lake Effigy or Cabri Lake Stone Man. In 1995, a visiting rock art expert from the USA identified it as the traditional representation of a shaman, a medicine man. There are similar effigies much further south in the USA, all related to the Uto-Aztecan culture of the American Southwest.

For a time, historians identified this part of the province as being “Cree territory” by 1870. This is a dubious conclusion. In family histories from rangeland south of the river, the Natives who helped the early ranchers cut and haul timber were Blackfoot. It seems the Plains Cree were not dominant around Cabri Lake at any time. There were Cree in the area, as well as Assiniboin, Hidatsa and Shoshone , but their presence was intrusive and discontinuous. The settled population north of Red Deer Forks was Blackfoot. In 1996, the local archaeological society excavated at and around a free-flowing spring in the farmyard of Fred Coventry, north of the Cabri Lake Hills. Evidences were found there of successive human occupations dating back for almost 7,000 years, and including the Old Women’s culture which was ancestral to the Blackfoot.

There were trading posts north of the Saskatchewan River and south of the Cabri Lake Hills. Three were built in the fall of 1800, the first by HBC men led by Peter Fidler. Within days, they were joined by XY (New North West) Company traders and an (old) North West Company party. (The HBC and NWC posts were built within a single stockade. The XYC constructed their smaller stockade nearby.) That year, there was no trouble with the Natives.

The Nor’westers didn’t return in 1801. Fidler’s men pulled down their buildings. On February 21, 1802, a band of Gros Ventre forced their way into the XYC stockade, but were expelled. They found victims outside the palisades. Four Iroquois of the North West Company, on their way to Fidler’s post, were killed. Afterward, other Nor’westers, two Canadiens and ten Iroquois, were slaughtered. XYC traders burned their own buildings and moved in with Fidler. There was no trade at Chesterfield House for the next two seasons.

In 1805, a NWC party under John MacDonald of Garth returned to build New Chesterfield House, probably further downstream. On December 27 and 28, there was a battle between the Blackfoot and a band of Hidatsa. Macdonald’s men buried the slain Blackfoot warriors. No trading posts operated in the area for the next seventeen years.

Chesterfield House Number Two was constructed further downstream in 1822, by an HBC party led by Chief Factor Donald MacKenzie. During the winter of 1822-23, there were 143 souls at the post – 108 men, 14 women and 21 children. They left at winter’s end and never came back.

The killings 1802 were the first recorded deaths in what later became the RM of Mantario. George Fidler, born in the winter of 1801, was the first recorded birth.

Fragments of the Fort Walsh-Battleford Trail are still visible in the former Mantario municipality. Two troops of NWMP, travelling to Fort Walsh forded the river near the landmark called the Bull’s Forehead Hill in September of 1876.

On June 19, 1877, Sub-constable George Mahoney, NWMP, perished in quicksand at the same ford. His guide was Goodwin Marchand, a Métis freighter. (Marchand blazed the Swift Current-Battleford Trail in 1883, after the abandonment of Fort Walsh had reduced traffic on the older trail to a trickle.)

In 1878, a party off Métis hunters from St. Laurent followed the Fort Walsh-Battleford Trail to land north of the ford. With them was Father Jean-Marie Lestanc, missionary priest. They established the first semi-permanent community in what would become the Mantario municipality. Known as Red Deer Forks or Riviére La Biche, it survived until 1886. The first church and school there were the work of Lestanc during the winter of 1878-79. Big Bear and his Plains Cree were camped at the settlement that same winter.

In 1800, Alan Poyntz Patrick, a Dominion Land Surveyor, brought the first cattle herd into the point of land between the two rivers. In that same year, the Saskatchewan Herald of Battleford reported that Pierre and Gabriel Léveillé had established farms at the settlement. Pierre Léveillé was the guide who led the advance party of the newly-formed NWMP on their westward trek in 1874. The brothers were sons of the illegitimate daughter of Sir Alexander Mackenzie.

There were more violent deaths in the Red Deer Forks country. In 1876, the police arrested a Blackfoot named Nataya for the murder of an unidentified Native. Gabriel Léveillé died in a hunting accident in 1883. A year later, a youth named Antoine Paulette was killed by Piegan horse-thieves.

The Léveillé farms were narrow, river-fronting plots. The brothers were squatters. In 1882, George Gunn, formerly of the Cypress Hills, became the first homesteader in what became the Mantario municipality, as the owner of the East half of Section 6, Township 23, Range 28, West of the Third Meridian.

Some early ranches extended into the territory that became the RM of Mantario. The Massingill Ranch, headquartered south of the river in 1898, extended northward to summer range east of modern Alsask. The winter range was around Cabri Lake.

The Rideau Ranching Company established a horse ranch in 1903 north of the river, on the Chesterfield Flats. Owners of the ranch were Galen VanCleave and his partner, J.R. Allen. VanCleave died in a wagon accident in 1912. John Harvey Ferguson, a nephew of J.R. Allen, took over the management of the ranch and subsequently married Mrs. VanCleave. The Ferguson family is still in the district.

The Mantario municipality is also home to a mining operation, which, under various owners, produced sodium sulphate intermittently over a span of 80 years. Soda Lake Chemicals, the first lease-holder in 1921, didn’t bring the mine into production. Subsequent operators were the Sodium Corporation Ltd., and Natural Sodium Products Saskatchewan. Minerals acquired the leases in 1954, but did not resume production. In 1965, Sodium Sulphate (Saskatchewan) re-opened the mine. Francana Minerals became the owner in 1970, but encountered financial difficulties and was forced to shut down. The present operator is Alsask-based Potassium Sulphate (Alsask) Inc., which took over the dormant operation in 1996. The company produces fertilizer by combining the mine’s ore with potash.

In 1943 – 1944, seven of the employees at the mine were ethnic Japanese from BC. This was the first and only instance of wartime internees working in the municipality.

River crossings were important. In 1904, privately-owned Montgomery’s Landing Ferry was the only crossing. Later, it became the government-owned Prelate Ferry. In 1913, another private ferry, Dargie’s, was east of Empress. In 1916, the “farmers” bridge across the Red Deer River gave direct access to Empress. This first bridge was swept away in the spring flood of 1917. The Estuary Ferry began operation on Nov. 5, 1916. The private venture Prussia (Leader) Ferry, also in operation in 1916, was taken over by the province in 1917.

Maple Creek was the supply centre for the settlers until 1910, when the rails of the Canadian Northern Railway’s Goose Lake Line reached Kindersley. As the rails moved westward, settlers in this area had shorter hauls to delivery points west of Kindersley, including Alsask, a new village in 1910 and a town in 1912.

With the completion of the CPR’s Swift Current- Bassano Branch in 1914, settlers further south had five cross-river delivery points – Prelate, Prussia (Leader), Westerham, Estuary and Empress. Until 1920, Alsask, the largest and closest centre on the Goose Lake line, faced business competition from Empress and Estuary. The records of ferry crossings in the Saskatchewan Highways Report for 1918-19, show Leader and Estuary ferries running neck and neck. Estuary, with seven grain elevators, was probably the major delivery point, and Leader the principal supply centre.

This pattern was changed by the Mantario Subdivision of the Macrorie West Division, with rails looping south from the Goose Lake line at Alsask and rejoined it at Delisle. Originally a branch of the Canadian Northern Railway, it was completed by Canadian Government Railways, which took the name Canadian National Railway in 1923. The final section of track, between Laporte and Hardene (original name of Mantario) was completed in 1920, and the first scheduled train ran in June of that year.

For the two rural municipalities, Mantario, Laporte and Eatonia became important grain delivery points. Early elevator company names were Pioneer Grain, Saskatchewan and Western, Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company (taken over by the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool in 1926), and State Elevator Company. The building of a spur from Eyre to Acadia Valley added a Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Elevator at Cuthbert in 1927. By 1928, United Grain Growers had built in Mantario, Laporte and Eatonia. Before WW II, the delivery points were Cuthbert, Eyre, Mantario, Laporte and Eatonia, with a total of 13 elevators. After WW II, and before the wholesale closings of wooden elevators, there were 11 in operation on the line, with five owned by Pioneer Grain, four by Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and two by United Grain Growers. In 2003, there are no operating elevators in the RM of Chesterfield, but former Pool facilities at Laporte and Eatonia have been purchased by local farmers for use as storage. An abandonment order against the branch has been withdrawn and a farmer-owned producer car loading facility was built near Laporte in 2002.

The first meeting of the council of the RM of Mantario took place in January of 1912, and of the RM of Royal Canadian in March of 1913. Even before these two local government divisions were created, the need for postal services was being met. In 1911, some settlers were being served by offices on the Goose Lake Line. The Gorefield farm post office opened in 1910, three years before there was a Royal Canadian Municipality. It was followed by Craiglands in 1911 and Dungloe in 1912. There were no farm post offices in operation in Mantario Municipality prior to the establishment of a local government. Before 1925, there were nine post offices in the Royal Canadian/Mantario area. In 2003, the only full-service post office is at Eatonia.

Schools were also an early concern. Local school districts were separate entities, although the rural municipalities became responsible for setting their boundaries and collecting their tax levies. The Craiglands School District was formed one year before the RM of Royal Canadian was created. Other districts came quickly. To limit difficulties of pupil access, an effort was made to restrict their area to between 16 and 25 sections, but districts did range in size from 14 to 72 sections. The difference in areas related to some extent to natural barriers, but mostly to land quality. Inevitably, school populations were lower where land was used for grazing. From first to last, there were 31 school districts wholly or partially within the present boundaries of the RM of Chesterfield. In 2003, only two schools are in operation, a central school at Eatonia and a rural school on the Hutterite Colony southwest of Laporte.

Building supplies were important. Every railway town of any size had more than one sales outlet. Initially, lumber was hauled from Kindersley, and later from Alsask, with rough-cut cottonwood being ferried across the river from a saw mill on the “Horseshoe” Smith ranch. By the end of the Great War there were at least 14 accessible yards across the river. By 1920, there were also lumber dealers at Mantario, Laporte and Eatonia. In 2003, the Mantario and Laporte and all the cross-river yards are gone, but there is a single lumber outlet in Eatonia and farm-based building supplier nearby.

Chartered banks followed the new railway tracks. Initially, the original rural municipalities dealt with the Union Bank in Alsask. The new branch brought a Union Bank to Eaton (original name of Eatonia) in 1918. The Merchant’s Bank of Canada soon followed. By 1920, Laporte also had a Union Bank, and Mantario a branch of the Royal Bank of Canada. The Union Bank was absorbed by the Royal and the Merchant’s Bank by the Bank of Montreal. The Laporte and Mantario branches did not survive for long. For many years, there was only a branch of the Royal at Eatonia. In 2003, full-service banking in the RM of Chesterfield is provided by the Eatonia branch of Rosetown’s Prairie Centre Credit Union.

Ethnic origins influenced the locations of churches and cemeteries. The west side of the municipality bears the ethnic imprint of the ranching era, when most of the settlers were of Anglo-Celtic origin. (Most of the rangeland, including the PFRA pasture is within the boundaries of the Mantario municipality.) Although there are family names of German origin in the RM of Chesterfield, there are far more south of the river. Over 80 % family names in the Leader history book are of German origin, and 91% in the Burstall book. In the first volume of the Eatonia and district history book only 25% of the family names are German. In the Empress history book, which includes in its index settlers from the old RM of Mantario, the proportion drops to14%. Wherever there were significant numbers of German-speaking settlers, there were country churches and cemeteries. Only one country church, however, was within the boundaries of the RM of Chesterfield, a Lutheran church south and east of Eatonia, dating from 1912. The church was hauled away in 1933. The first recorded burial in its cemetery, now disused, was in 1914. The only other church cemetery in the RM of Chesterfield is Peace Lutheran, still in use, which was associated with a former church of the same name in Laporte. The first burial there was made there in 1912.

There are three public cemeteries still in use – Mayfield, Mantario and Eatonia.. Mayfield, northeast of Empress, was first used in 1913 by Zach Leach for the burial of his daughter May. Owned for a time by the Empress Methodist Church, it was taken over by the Mantario municipality 1917. The oldest marked burial in the Mantario Village Cemetery was made in 1920 . The first recorded burial in the Eatonia Village Cemetery was made in the same year, although a legal survey of the property was not made until 1921 The original public cemetery, no longer in use, was owned by the RM of Royal Canadian. The first recorded burial was made there in 1915, although the cemetery was not surveyed until 1917. For a short time before being moved to Laporte, the municipal office was on the cemetery site, south and west of Laporte.

From first to last, there were ten property-owning church congregations in of what is now the RM of Chesterfield. These included Anglican, German Congregationalist, Lutheran (3), Nazarene (2) Roman Catholic, United (2). The only three church properties still in use in 2002 are in Eatonia – Lutheran, Roman Catholic and United.

The municipalities had a limited involvement with community hall boards and recreation associations. The two earliest community halls were in the Mayfield and Chesterfield districts of the old Mantario municipality. Chesterfield, built in 1916, was leased to the school district in 1918. The ruined building is still on site. The Mayfield hall has disappeared. There was also an Orange Hall at Cuthbert. There was a community hall in Mantario before 1925. It was sold to the United Church and a new hall was built, which is still on site. In 1985, the Mantario Lions Club built a new hall in Eyre Park. (This park was set aside set aside c.1922.) The Laporte Community Hall was completed in 1929. Eatonia’s first purpose-built community hall opened in 2000.

In 1960, the municipalities of Mantario, Royal Canadian and Newcombe entered into an agreement with the Town of Eatonia and volunteer groups to operate recreation facilities. In 2003, all major facilities, with the exception of Eyre Park and the golf course, are located in Eatonia.

Telephones service has never been a responsibility of the rural municipalities. The rural telephone companies, Mantario ( 1925 – 1959) and Warrior ( 1919 — 1979), were independent corporate entities. Telephone service in the area is now provided by SaskTel.

From the beginning, rural municipalities collected school district tax levies. This responsibility continues. During the Great Depression, the municipalities were also involved in the work of the Saskatchewan Relief Commission and the Saskatchewan Voluntary Relief Committee. In 1934, the rural municipalities became direct agents of the provincial government in delivering aid to those in need. Social welfare is no longer the responsibility of local governments.

Primary concerns of the rural municipalities were transportation, services to agriculture, and the development of health services. Early in 1912, the Mantario council began planning the purchase of road equipment , and a wage structure for foremen, labourers and men with teams. In 1912, two years before the CPR bridge across the Red Deer was completed, the councillors urged the province to influence the railway to add a traffic lane to the bridge. The railway refused. Later, the councillors wanted the province to provide a ferry to connect to the as yet unnamed town at the Forks of the Red Deer and South Saskatchewan Rivers (Empress.) In 1914, the Mantario council joined forces with Royal Canadian and the Town of Prussia (Leader) to agitate, unsuccessfully, for a ferry opposite the site of Westerham. In 1917, the council gave priority to an east-west road to connect to the new traffic bridge at Empress. During the Dirty Thirties, much of the roadwork was done by farmers in lieu of the payment of taxes. After WW II, roads and road-building equipment within the municipality continued to improve.

In 1916, the Mantario municipality had a fenced public reservoir and pump in place. Much later, the larger RM of Chesterfield began to develop a number of public wells. In 2003, a representative from the RM is involved in the studies for the proposed Water West Saskatchewan River pipe line.

In 1913, there was a proposal to join with Alsask to form a union hospital district. The motion, when presented to council, failed to pass.

The first nomination meeting of the RM of Royal Canadian was held at the Gorefield Post Office on December 9, 1912. In 1913, the council was able to hold its first meeting in an office on what later became the site of the first municipal cemetery. The building was moved to Laporte and enlarged in 1920.

Road-building, a constant concern, closely followed the patterns set in the RM of Mantario. In 1929 , the council began what was to be a long agitation for a bridge across the South Saskatchewan at either Prelate or Leader. The Chesterfield Bridge, north of Leader, did not open for traffic until 1971.

In its earliest years, the Royal Canadian council set bounties on timber wolves and coyotes . In 1929, there was a bounty on rabbits. The municipality began to provide gopher poison in1915. Services to agriculture were similar in both municipalities. The control of animal and insect pests and weeds is still a concern in 2003. Both municipalities were early members of the Municipal Hail Insurance Association.

In 1913, Royal Canadian Councillors began discussing a proposal to join the Kindersley Union Hospital District. Nothing came of it. Initially, medical services were provided to both municipalities by medical practitioners and hospitals, either municipal or private, outside their boundaries. In the early years, there were medical doctors, sometimes more than one, in Alsask, Flaxcombe, Prelate, Leader, Estuary and Empress. The first resident physician was Dr. Joseph W. Lord, who settled in Eatonia in 1920. The RM of Royal Canadian had a part in providing a cottage hospital. By I925, the Eatonia Union Hospital District was in being and a new hospital was built. In 1939, the RM began to employ a resident physician on a salaried basis. The arrangement continued until the Saskatchewan Health Services Plan came into effect in 1947. The RM continued to co-operate with Eatonia in providing a residence for the doctors and in building a clinic. The original Union Hospital was replaced in 1957 and replaced again by an integrated care facility in 1991. Provincial health care restructuring has since brought an end to acute care in the facility. In 2003, there is no longer a resident medical doctor in the municipality.

Other Eatonia-based services which the RM of Chesterfield helps to maintain are a municipal airport, a branch of the Wheatland Regional Library and a rural fire protection district. Chesterfield is also a part of the Leader Veterinary Services District.

Law enforcement was never a direct function of the rural municipalities. Within the boundaries of Chesterfield, there was never a court house, nor a local police force, other than during those time periods when Eatonia had a single constable. Police service throughout the area is now provided by RCMP officers under a provincial contract. Police activity was most intense during the time when there was no legal sale of alcoholic beverages. Although their numbers cannot be determined accurately, moon-shiners, bootleggers and rum-runners were most numerous around Eatonia and Laporte. The secretive trade languished when a legal beer parlour appeared Eatonia in 1935.

There are no records of murders in the RM of Royal Canadian. The Laporte district, however, may have been home to a serial arsonist. Until the fires ended in 1936 with the burning of the United Grain Growers store in Laporte, three barns, a sheep shed , Highbury School (twice), Royal Canadian school and a farm home were destroyed. Suspicion fell on Arthur E. (Puppy) White, a former Royal Navy man who had homesteaded in the district 1908. Although not noted at the time, the undiscovered Estuary arsonist was most active in 1917 and 1918, when White was hauling grain to elevators there. In the next decade, there were fires at Westerham, Leader and Burstall. In 1936 , White was charged with burglarizing and burning the store at Laporte. Deemed unfit to stand trial, his guilt was never proved. After his removal to a mental institution, the rash of unexplained fires – on both sides of the river – came to an end.

In recent years, there has been significant growth in the petroleum industry in the RM of Chesterfield, with most of the oil wells on the west side of the municipality, and a band of gas wells across the south. There is a natural gas distribution system which brings natural gas to most residents of the area, both rural and urban.

In agriculture, there has been a increase in livestock production and seeded pasture. The largest development has been the Chesterfield Stock Farm, north of the Chesterfield Bridge, a large hog production facility associated with the Quadra group. Among other diversified operations are farms raising wild boars, white-tail deer and llamas. There are some non- traditional enterprises based on farms, such as trucking, heavy equipment repair, cabinet-making and metal fabrication.

The Chesterfield municipal office and repair depot are now in Eatonia. Despite the weaknesses in the rural tax base, Chesterfield, in 2003, is well equipped to maintain a network of roads and has the ability to deal efficiently with the provision of any other services which can be reasonably expected.

Reeves, Councillors and Secretaries, RM of Mantario

1912
S. G. Suddaby (Div 1)
Gavin Hamilton (Div 2)
Z. E. Leach (Div 3)
R. B. Jones (Div 4)
J. L. Stoudt (Div 5)
R. E. Savage (Div 5)
Nelson J. Ardell (Div 6)

1913
W. E. Nash (Div 4)

1914
Mr. Rivers (Div 1)
Geo. Paul (Div 5)

1915
Ed. Kinch (Div 1)
Stanley Sawyer (Div 2)
John Battyu (Div 3)
C. E. Sargent (Div 4)
Mr. Thompson (Div 4)

1916
Mr. Leach (Div 4)
Mr. McCulley (Div 5)
B. R. Harnett (Div 6)

1917
Mr. Bell (Div 1)
Mr. Johnston (Div 4)
Russell J. Scott (Div 5)

1918
Mr. Baynon (Div 1)
R. B. Jones (Div 4)

1919
Wm. Rowles Div 3)

1920
F. D. Jones (Div 4)
Len Walker (Div 6)

1921
Wm. Connell (Div 1)
R. M. Rivers (Div 3)
Mr. White (Div 5)

1922
Mr. Neal (Div 4)

1923
Mr. Cole (Div 2)
N. J. Wagar (Div 3)
Henry Austrum (Div 4)

1924
Mr. Rivers (Div 1)
Alexander Douglas (Div 2)
J. J. Edwards (Div 5)

1925
Z. E. Leach (Div 3)

1928
W. F. J. Montgomery (Div 2)
Iver C. Dahl (Div 4)
J. J. Edwards (Div 5)
Mr. Smith (Div 5)
T. Richards (Div 5)
James W. Hawtin Sr. (Div 6)

1929
J. J. Edwards (Div 5)

1931
Thomas Rowles (Div 3)
J. J. Edwards (Div 5)

1934
E. F. Francis (Div 4)

1935
Earnest E. Arnold (Div 1)
T. Mansell Leech (Div 3)

1936
Grant Johnson (Div 6)

1938
Jack C. Watson (Div 2)

1939
Jack C. Watson (Div 2)

1939
O. M. Leach (Div 3)
B. R. Robb (Div 5)

1942
A.R. Jones (Div 4)
Glen Walker (Div 6)

1944
Mike Dirk (Div 2)
W. L. May (Div 4)
Grant Johnson (Div 6)

1945
Ed. Steinly (Div 3)

1947
Maurice Price (Div 1)

1948
Silas Somerville (Div 4)

1949
P. Schafer Sr. (Div 2)

1950
J. C. May (Div 4)

1951
H. Dosch (Div 3)
T. W. Francis (Div 5)

1952
T. E. Anderson (Div 4)

1953
M. Dirk (Div 3)
H. F. Nelson (Div 5)

1954
Milburn Ritchie (Div 4)
M. McLay (Div 6)

1955
O. M. Leach Jr. (Div 3)

1956
H. F. Nelson (Div 5)
W. S. Howes (Div 5)

1957
Wayne Arnold (Div 1)
R. L. Shipley Jr. (Div 5)

1958
J. K. Habich (Div 2)
R. E. Dearborne (Div 4)
G. C. Dicker (Div 6)

1959
B. F. Arnold (Div 1)
P. Schafer (Div 3)
Harry Ashley (Div 5)

1960
E. A. Douglas (Div 2)
G. C. Dicker (Div 6)
Alan Johnson (Div 6)

1961
P. Shafer (Div 3)
W. B. Steinley (Div 3)

1963
R. N. Booker (Div 3)

1964
J. M. Ferguson (Div 2)
J. H. Butt (Div 4)

1965
A. Galarneau (Div 1)
T. W. Franci (Div 5)

1966
Melvin Loose (Div 1)

1967
John O’Connor (Div 3)
Wm. Cridland (Div 4)
Malcolm Marchant (Div 5)

1968
Melvin Loose (Div 1)
J. M. Ferguson (Div 2)
John O’Connor (Div 3)
Wm. Cridland (Div 4)
Malcolm Marchant (Div 5)
Alan Johnson (Div 6)

Reeves
1912 John Golighly
1913 R. B. Jones
1915 E. A. Rivers
1916 Nelson Ardell
1924 James F. Rivers
1928 L. C. Walker
1929 Henry Austrum
1931 L. C. Walker
1934 Iver C. Dahl
1942 J. R. Golightly
1944 L. C. Walker
1946 Iver C. Dahl
1954 Ed Steinley
1957 Ray Somerville
1965 Martin W. B. Dahl
1967 John H. Butt
1968 John H. Butt

Secretary-Treasurers
1912 Harry Leach
1913 Issac Walker
1914 Roy S. Boag
1919 C. Evans Sargent
1947 A. A. Bischoff (acting)
1948 A. A. Bischoff
W. S. Howes
1955 W. S. Howes
George A. Pedley
1958 P. Keith Miller
1963 P. Keith Miller
J. E. Davis
1968 J. E. Davis

Reeves, Councillors and Secretaries, RM of Royal Canadian

1913
Herb May (Div 1)
C. A. Sargent (Div 2)
A. W. Kennedy (Div 3)
Jas. Campbell (Div 4)
J. Boomer (Div 5)
W. C. Hodgins (Div 6)

1914
Herb May (Div 1)
H. Wise (Div 1)
Percy Brown (Div 2)
John Schofer (Div 3)
E. Martin (Div 4)

1915
Herb Cooke (Div 5)
Charles Bailey (Div 6)

1916
Bert Dorman (Div 1)
James Henry Div 4)
John Putt (Div 5)

1917
H. Gordon Jones (Div 1)
W. H. Swayze (Div 2)
Harry Ebenau (Div 3)
M. E. Hayes (Div 6)

1918
Fred Clarke (Div 2)
Sam Kinch (Div 2)
Thomas Ryan (Div 4)
John Lee (Div 5)

1919
Bert Dorman (Div 1)
L. R. McFayden (Div 2)
Allyn Harvey (Div 4)

1921
J, McNeil (Div 1)
Harry Ebenau (Div 3)
J. Mattes (Div 3)
W. Root (Div 5)

1922
J. Gannon (Div 4)
P. A. Martin (Div 6)

1923
Ed. McNeil (Div 1)
O. Halverson (Div 3)

1924
Fred Rosher (Div 4)

1925
W. H. Ewing (Div 1)

1926
John Putt (Div 5)

1928
J. Ebenau (Div 4)

1929
W. J. Palmer (Div 2)
H. C. Bennett (Div 5)

1932
H. C. Bennett (Div 5)
Herb Cooke (Div 5)

1934
A. M. Guidinger (Div 4)
W. C. Hodgins (Div 6)

1936
James Henry (Div 4)

1945
C. A. Guidinger (Div 1)
W. J. Palmer (Div 2)
E. Hoffman (Div 3)
James Henry Div 4)
Herb Cooke (Div 5)
W. C. Hodgins (Div 6)

1946
J. Jamieson (Div 6)

1948
R. H. Schuh (Div 4)

1950
C. H. Bailey (Div 6)

1952
P. M. Henry (Div 4)
W. Greuning (Div 6)

1953
J. Knippleberg (Div 5)

1959
E. Hoffman (Div 3)
Oscar Hoffman (Div 3)

1960
R. Craig (Div 2)
F. J. Nunweiler (Div 4)

1961
W. Reinhardt (Div 1)

1963
John Reed (Div 1)

1964
R. Hill (div 5)

1967
Phil Nunweiler (Div 3)

1968
John Reed (Div 1)
R. Craig (Div 2)
Phil Nunweiler (Div 3)
F. J. Nunweiler (Div 4)
R. Hill (Div 5)
W. Greuning (Div 6)

Reeves
1913 A. McDonald
1914 C. A. Sargent
1915 Neil McLean
1917 Charles Bailey
1918 James Henry
1921 Harry Edenau
1922 James Henry
1930 L. R. McFayden
1933 Harry Ebenau
1968 Harry Ebenau

Secretary-Treasurers
1913 C. E. Craig
1920 C. F. Mephan
1921 C. E. Craig
1929 H, C. Bennet
1931 C. E. Craig (part-time)
H. C. Bennet and J. C. Mehain (acting)
1933 H. C. Bennet
1952 H. C. Bennet and W. S. Howes
1954 W. S. Howes
1968 W. S. Howes

Reeves, Councillors and Secretaries, RM of Chesterfield

1969
John Reed (Div 1)
R. Craig (Div 2)
Walter Steinley (Div 3)
R. Hill (Div 4)
A. Guidinger (Div 5)
Aaron Dahl (Div 6)
J. Butt (Div 7)
Alan Johnson (Div 8)

1970
Ben Arnold (Div 2)

1971
Ewlyn Hummel (Div 7)

1973
Bill Dearborne (Div 2)
Jim Martin (Div 5)

1974
Edwin Nagel (Div 4)
Donald Francis (Div 6)

1976
Del Price (Div 2)

1977
Roth Reinhardt (Div 1)

1980
Joe Guidinger (Div 5)
Jim Golightly (Div 6)

1987
Roth Reinhardt (Div 1)
Glen Busby (Div 1)

1989
Dave Booker (Div 2)

1994
Ken Clarke (Div 3)

1995
Allan Nunweiler (Div 5)
Arnott Larock (Div 7)

1996
Chris Theaker (Div 2)
Ken Klein (Div 3)
Brian Johnson (Div 8)

1999
G. Busby (Div 1)
C. Theaker (Div 2)
D. Booker (Div 3)
Ken Klein (Div 4)
Brian Henry (Div 5)
Jim Golightly Div 6)
Arnott Larock (Div 7)
Brian Johnson (Div 8)

Reeves
1969 F. J. Nunweiler
1974 Bill Cridland
1987 Ray Somerville
1995 Joe Guidinger

Secretaries
1969 W. S. Howes
1972 W. S. Howes and A. M. Burton
1973 A. M. Burton
1980 A. M. Burton and Bev. Dahl
1991 Bev. Dahl
1988 Gary Ritsco
2001 Judy Douglas