Historic Sites of Manitoba: Beulah School No. 162 (Beulah, Municipality of Prairie View)

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A metal sign marks the former site of Beulah School in what is now the Municipality of Prairie View. Established formally in February 1882, a school operated here from 1883 to 1911, when it was moved into Beulah immediately to the northwest. Two years later, it became part of the Miniota Consolidated School District No. 680. In 1921, a four-classroom brick structure was constructed on a design by Winnipeg architect Eldred Dodsworth Tuttle. The Beulah School building was later moved to Birtle by the Birdtail River School Division for use as additional classroom space at Birtle School.

Principals

Period

Principal

1916-1918

Harold G. Leeson

1918-1920

James McNeil (1866-1954)

1920-1922

Cecil James Hutchings (1897-1983)

1922-1930

Henry Benjamin Bees (c1886-1968)

1930-1934

Lewis Edwin Walker (c1910-1968)

1934-1936

Frank Bowman

1936-1940

John Maxwell “Jack” McGilvray (1908-1977)

1940-1941

Paul I. Robinson (1906-1993)

1941-1944

Howard Willard Stevenson (1911-1948)

1944-1945

Emmanuel Victor Edmond “Ed” Emond (1917-2000)

1945-1949

?

1949-1951

John Peter Tutkaluke (1914-1994)

1951-1952

D. Fauchon

1952-1953

W. D. Hunter

1953-1954

Douglas Gordon Pomeroy (1911-1968)

1954-1955

A. Kohuska

1955-1956

?

1956-1957

Isabel D. Nicholson

1957-1959

Leonard Draper

1959-1961

Andrew Otchenash (1927-2007)

1961-1962

Rudolf Ewald “Rudy” Mehmel (1918-2013)

1962-1963

Ronald C. Beech

Teachers

School Year

Teachers

1920-1921

M. de Witt, H. McMillan

Photos & Coordinates

Beulah School

Beulah School (no date) by H. L. Albright
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 51.

Beulah School commemorative sign

Beulah School commemorative sign (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.25522, W101.02649
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Shamrock School No. 876 (Municipality of Prairie View)

Sources:

“Teachers at the convention,” Brandon Sun, 15 October 1920, page 6.

“Tenders for Beulah School,” Manitoba Free Press, 11 April 1921, page 14.

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

One Hundred Years in the History of the Rural Schools of Manitoba: Their Formation, Reorganization and Dissolution (1871-1971) by Mary B. Perfect, MEd thesis, University of Manitoba, April 1978.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 July 2022

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