January 4: Second female cop; St. Pierre-Jolys incorporated; Angus McIvor hanged.

January 4, 1947 – The Town of St-Pierre-Jolys is incorporated. Founded in 1877 as Rat River, its name was soon changed to Saint-Pierre. ‘ Jolys’ was later added to commemorate Father Jolys, a man instrumental in the settlement’s development.

January 4, 1910 – The Village of Winnipeg Beach holds its first council meeting at 12 noon.

January 4,1923 – The Great Falls Generating Station, located on the Winnipeg River 130 km northeast of Winnipeg, is officially opened.

January 4th, 1917 - Jane Isabel Andrews (44) joins the Winnipeg Police, only the second woman to do so. She served until 1938. In the photo above Andrews is on the left. (Photo source and for more on Winnipeg's Winnipeg's early policewomen.)

January 4, 1899 - The Rock Lake Review begins publication in Cartwright, MB. In 1903 it changed its name to the Southern Manitoba Review.


 January 4 - 1972 - The inaugural council meeting of the "Unicity" of Winnipeg is held. 


January 4, 1876 - Angus McIvor is hanged in Winnipeg for the September 1875 murder of George Atkinson.

Mr. Baptiste Charette hired McIvor as part of a team to deliver freight to the West. Around Shoal Lake the men came across Atkinson who had an overloaded cart and Charette agreed to share part of the load. The next night, while stopping over near Fort Ellice (at St. Lazare) McIvor shot and killed Atkinson and wounded Charette. It was believed that he intended to steal the cargo.

The Free Press noted that Mcivor faced his hanging "like a man" He is buried in an unmarked grave at St. Boniface Basilica.