The Rural Municipality of Ellice is a former
rural municipality (RM) in the
Canadian province of Manitoba. It was originally incorporated as a rural municipality on December 22, 1883. It ceased on January 1, 2015 as a result of its
provincially mandated amalgamation with the
RM of Archie and the
Village of St. Lazare to form the
Rural Municipality of Ellice – Archie.
The RM was named after
Edward Ellice, Sr.
Edward Ellice the Elder (27 September 1783 – 17 September 1863), known in his time as the "Bear", was a British merchant and politician. He was a Director of the Hudson's Bay Company and a prime mover behind the Reform Bill of 1832.
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, a British merchant and politician. In its northwestern section was a part of the
Gambler 63 First Nations Indian reserve.
Fort Ellice, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post built in 1831, was located near the junction of the Assiniboine and Qu'Appelle rivers. It was an important stop on the
Carlton Trail, which ran from the Red River settlement to Fort Edmonton. It became a
North-West Mounted Police
The North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) was a Canadian para-military police force, established in 1873, to maintain order in the new Canadian North-West Territories (NWT) following the 1870 transfer of Rupert’s Land and North-Western Territory ...
post in 1875.
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Victor
The name Victor or Viktor may refer to:
* Victor (name), including a list of people with the given name, mononym, or surname
Arts and entertainment
Film
* ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film
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References
''Manitoba Municipalities: Rural Municipality of Ellice''''Map of Ellice R.M. at Statcan''
Ellis
Ellis is a surname of Welsh and English origin. Retrieved 21 January 2014 An independent French origin of the surname is said to derive from the phrase fleur-de-lis.
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Populated places disestablished in 2015
2015 disestablishments in Manitoba
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