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