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A Killarney & District Timeline...

1879 Surveyed

1880 H. Knight built first house

1881 Municipality of Turtle Mountain formed

1883 First School Built

1884 Erskine presbyterian church first started services

1885 CPR reaches Killarney

1886 Lawlor opens first store; Olgilvie Milling Co. opens

first grain buying in area

1887 Methodist Church built (now the United Church)

1888 George Harrison builds first grain elevator

1889 Electric Lights come to Killarney

1890 Population 200; Holy Trinity Church built

1903 Incorporated as a village

1906 Incorporated as a town

1908 Telephone arrives

1910 Town Hall built

1920 Golf Course construction begins

1930 Manitoba Hydro arrives

1948 First Hospital is built

1957 Lakeview Senior Home is built

1959 First Library established

1960 Museum created

1993 Population 2136; 40% seniors

1994 Official opening of the Front Nine at Killarney Golf Course

     
     
Broadway Avenue looking south over the corner of the old Grand Central Hotel.
   
   
 
Kilpatrick's Store in the spring of 1886.
   
 
 
Broadway Avenue 1957, looking north.
   
 
 
The old Killarney and District Hospital (1950)