Alexander, Manitoba, is a local urban district[1] in the Rural Municipality of Whitehead, situated on Highway 1, west of Brandon.

[2] In 1882, the site was made a rail point on the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and a post office was opened, initially known as Pulteney.

[3][4] Built as a small hotel, residence and store, with the central portion occupied by the post office, the structure was built by the community's first postmaster, James Frederick Walker, whose family provided postal services to the community until 1949.

[7] On 23 July 1922, a monument was unveiled by the Alexander branch of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire in commemoration of people from the local area killed during military service.

Services were held until October 1974 and a fieldstone cairn in front of the church building was installed in 1975.

[10] The Alexander School District was formally established in October 1884, with the first 18-by-26-foot (5.5 m × 7.9 m) schoolhouse being built in 1886 on the south side of the railway at a cost of $600.