The Rural Municipality of Archie 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 Ellice and the Village of St. Lazare to form the Rural Municipality of Ellice – Archie.
Archie was named in 1883 after Archie McDonald, a chief factor with the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Ellice. Its economic base was primarily agriculture and the geography included the Assiniboine River and related valleys. It was about 345 square kilometres and the largest centre was McAuley.
It bordered a small part of the Birdtail Sioux First Nation in its northeast section.
Communities Manson McAuley Willen
Reeves Name In Office Samuel Leslie 1884–1887 John Traquair 1888–1889 R. J. Anderson 1890–1894 Charles Poole 1895–1910 William Macdonald 1911–1916 Robert J. Hewitt 1917–1922; 1927; 1929–1937 J. E. Jamieson 1923–1926 William Pateman 1938–1957 C. Donald McAree 1958–1967 E. Arthur Poole 1968–1971 Stuart A. Grant 1972–1975 Ronald J. McAuley 1976–1977 Aime J. Hudon 1978–1988 Robert B. Peters 1989 C. Terrance Johnson 1990–1992; 1999–2001 Charles U. Lowes 1993–1998; 2002–2004 Brian Bajus 2005-2014?
External links Official website Map of Archie R.M. at Statcan
References
Manitoba Municipalities: Rural Municipality of Archie