Brooklands, Winnipeg
Brooklands is a former urban municipality in Manitoba, Canada that now resides within the City of Winnipeg. It held village status from 1921 to 1961 and then town status from 1961 to 1967 when it amalgamated with the City of St. James, which in turn amalgamated with Rural Municipality of Assiniboia in 1968 and then again with Winnipeg in 1972.
History
Brooklands was founded as an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Rosser in the early 1900s. After growth from approximately 250 to 800 people, the community unsuccessfully sought incorporation or amalgamation with Winnipeg in 1909 as a means to acquire municipal water and sewer services. A second attempt occurred in 1921, which resulted in incorporation as a village. Forty years later, Brooklands was incorporated as a town in 1961. The Town of Brooklands then amalgamated with the City of St. James in 1967. The City of St. James further amalgamated with the Rural Municipality of Assiniboia two years later in 1969 to form the City of St. James-Assiniboia. Three years later, St. James-Assiniboia and numerous other nearby municipalities finally amalgamated with the City of Winnipeg on January 1, 1972.Government
The first mayor of the Village of Brooklands was George Raymond Alexander Brown. The village went bankrupt in 1932 so it was led by a provincially appointed village manager, John Reeves, until 1944. The final mayor of the Town of Brooklands, prior to amalgamation with the City of St. James, was Walter Bannister.| Term | Mayor |
| 1922–1923 | George Raymond Alexander Brown |
| 1924–1925 | John Haddow |
| 1926–1930 | John McLean |
| 1931 | William Leask |
| 1931–1944 | No mayor due to bankruptcy Instead led by John Reeves |
| 1944–1950 | Crispin Oddy |
| 1951 | Nicholas Solilak |
| 1952–1953 | Stanley V. Bowers |
| 1954–1955 | Daniel Harry Juba |
| 1956–1957 | Walter Bannister |
| 1958–1959 | Harry Stiller |
| 1960–1966 | Walter Bannister |