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The Binscarth School District was established formally in April 1887 and a school building operated at SE15-19-28W where the village of Binscarth (now in the Municipality of Russell-Binscarth) developed. In 1901, a two-storey wood frame schoolhouse was constructed. In 1951, it became Binscarth Consolidated School District No. 2326 in a new school on the same lot that opened on 25 August 1952. The old school building was demolished.
Period
Principal
1905-1908
Duncan Alexander Baxter (1872-1964)
1908-1909
W. W. McDonald
1909-1910
John S. Smiley
1910-1911
Arthur Wade (1886-1956)
1911-1916
James Humphrey Plewes (1873-1963)
1916-1919
Albert Hill (1882-1941)
1919-1921
Wilfred Almon Rideout (1878-1949)
1921-1922
R. L. Snodgrass
1922-1937
William James Bond (1868-1941)
1937-1941
Maurice Raphael [Ray] Loree (1910-?)
1941-1942
Ronald Smith Broadfoot (1911-1980)
1942-1944
Walter Thorvaldur Fredrickson (1907-1974)
1944-1946
Alfred Robert “Fred” Pelissier (?-1999)
1946-1949
Stanley Robert Kitchen (1915-1988)
1949
Edward J. F. Nasker
1949-1951
Alex Sabeski (c1923-2014)
1951-1952
Cecil Victor Gunn (1894-?)
1952-1954
Ruth Annie Fairlie Henderson (1904-1992)
1954-1958
Gerald Robert “Gerry” Green (1929-2014)
1958-1961
Arnold George Minish (1930-2014)
1961-1963
D. W. Smith
1963-1964
Frank Veregin (1931-2001)
1964-1966
J. S. Moran
1966-1969
?
1969-1973
F. D. Schaak
Period
Teachers
1906
Duncan Alexander Baxter (senior grades), Myrtle Case (grades 1-4 substitute), M. L. Kelso (grades 1-4)
1907
Duncan Alexander Baxter (senior grades), Miss C. Stewart (grades 3-8), ? (grades 1-2)
1908
Duncan Alexander Baxter (senior grades, spring term), Miss Cuthberson (grades 1-2, fall term), Mary Graham (grades 1-2, spring term), W. W. McDonald (senior grades, fall term), Miss C. Stewart (grades 3-8)
1909
L. E. F. Storey (grades 1-3), Jean M. MacLaren (grades 3-8), W. W. McDonald (grades 9-11), John S. Smiley (grades 9-11), C. Stewart (grades 3-8)
1910
L. E. F. Storey (grades 1-3), Jean M. MacLaren (grades 3-8), John S. Smiley (grades 9-11), Arthur Wade (grades 9-11)
1911
Margaret Allen (grades 1-3), Cora M. Leifer (grades 4-8), Jean M. MacLaren (grades 4-8), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11), L. E. F. Storey (grades 1-3), Arthur Wade (grades 9-11)
1912
Margaret Allen (grades 1-3), Cora M. Leifer (grades 3-8), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11)
1912-1913
Winnifred Fraser (grades 1-3), Cora M. Leifer (grades 4-8), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11)
1913-1914
Winnifred Fraser (grades 1-4), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11), ? (grades 5-8)
1914-1915
Mabel Alexander (grades 1-3, 1915), Lenore Marcroft (grades 1-3, 1914), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11), ? (grades 4-8)
1915-1916
Mabel Alexander (grades 1-3), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11), ? (grades 4-8)
1916-1917
Mabel Alexander (grades 1-3), Albert Hill (grades 9-11), George Peterkin MacLeod (grades 5-8)
1917-1918
F. Gladys Anderson (grades 1-3), Albert Hill (grades 9-11), ? (grades 4-8)
1918-1919
F. Gladys Anderson (grades 1-3), Albert Hill (grades 7-11), ? (grades 4-6)
1919-1920
Muriel J. Hardy (grades 1-3), Agnes H. McMurchy (grades 4-7), Wilfred Almon Rideout (grades 8-11)
1920-1921
Winnifred E. Grant (grades 4-7), Jean B. McArthur (grades 1-3), Wilfred Almon Rideout (grades 8-11)
1921-1922
Marjorie Mann (grades 1-3), R. L. Snodgrass (grades 9-11), ? (grades 4-7)
1922-1923
Mary Irene Bond (grades 4-7), William James Bond (grades 8-11), Marjorie Mann (grades 1-3)
1923-1924
Mary Irene Bond (grades 6-8), William James Bond (grades 9-11), Marjorie Mann (grades 3-5), Mrs. K. R. Plunch (grades 3-5, 1923), Annie B. Sinclair (grades 1-2)
1924-1925
Mary Irene Bond (grades 6-8), William James Bond (grades 9-11), Blanche Munroe Johnston (grades 3-5), Annie B. Sinclair (grades 1-3, 1924), Vera M. Sinclair (grades 1-3, 1925)
1925-1926
Mary Irene Bond (grades 6-8), William James Bond (grades 9-11), Blanche Munroe Johnston (grades 3-5), Vera M. Sinclair (grades 1-2)
1926-1927
Mary Irene Bond (grades 6-8), William James Bond (grades 9-11), Muriel B. Dudley (grades 1-2, 1927), Blanche Munroe Johnston (grades 3-5), Mabel Maguire (grades 1-2, 1926)
1927-1928
Mary Irene Bond (grades 6-8), William James Bond (grades 9-11), Blanche Munroe Johnston (grades 3-5), ? (grades 1-2)
1928-1929
Mary Irene Bond (grades 6-8), William James Bond (grades 9-11), Edith M. Gervin (grades 1-2), Blanche Munroe Johnston (grades 3-5)
1929-1930
William James Bond (grades 9-11), Lillian Elmire Brown (grades 1-2), Alda Palin Jones (grades 6-8), Ethel Mae Wilson (grade 3-5)
1930-1931
William James Bond (grades 9-11), Alda Palin Jones (grades 6-8), Ethel Mae Wilson (grade 3-5), ? (grades 1-2)
1931-1932
William James Bond (grades 9-11), Alda Palin Jones (grades 6-8), Edra Frances Lund (grades 1-2), Ethel Mae Wilson (grade 3-5)
1932-1933
William James Bond (grades 9-11), Alda Palin Jones (grades 6-8), Edra Frances Lund (grades 1-2), Erma McLennan Spence (grade 3-5)
1933-1934
William James Bond (grades 9-11), Alda Palin Jones (grades 6-8), Edra Frances Lund (grades 1-2), Erma McLennan Spence (grade 3-5)
1934-1935
William James Bond (grades 9-11), Alda Palin Jones (grades 6-8), Edra Frances Lund (grades 1-3), Erma McLennan Spence (grade 3-5)
1935-1936
Albert Orde Anderson (grades 6-8), William James Bond (grades 9-11), Edra Frances Lund (grades 1-3), Erma McLennan Spence (grade 4-5)
1936-1937
Albert Orde Anderson (grades 6-8), Miss T. Balmer (grades 9-11, 1937 substitute), William James Bond (grades 9-11), Edra Frances Lund (grades 1-2), Erma McLennan Spence (grade 3-5)
1937-1938
Maurice Raphael [Ray] Loree (grades 9-11), Edra Frances Lund (grades 1-2), Robert Ross Smith (grades 6-8), Erma McLennan Spence (grade 3-5)
1938-1939
Christina Mary Bray (grades 4-5), Beatrice Roberta Hyndman (grades 1-3), Maurice Raphael [Ray] Loree (grades 9-11), Robert Ross Smith (grades 6-8)
1939-1940
Christina Mary Bray (grades 4-5), Beatrice Roberta Hyndman (grades 1-3), Maurice Raphael [Ray] Loree (grades 9-11), Robert Ross Smith (grades 6-8)
1940-1941
Lilian Goodall Wylie (grades 1-4), Maurice Raphael [Ray] Loree (grades 11-12), Pauline Elizabeth McArthur (grades 9-10), Mabel Almena McConnell (grades 5-8), Bernice Wright (grades 1-4, 1940)
1941-1942
Elizabeth Violet “Bessie” Bradshaw (grades 5-8), Ronald Smith Broadfoot (grades 11-12), Pauline Elizabeth McArthur (grades 9-10), Lilian Goodall Wylie (grades 1-4)
1942-1943
Elizabeth Violet “Bessie” Bradshaw (grades 5-8), Edna Pearl Calverley (grades 9-10), Helen Grace Chapman (grades 1-4), Walter Fredrickson (grade 11)
1943-1944
Elizabeth Violet “Bessie” Bradshaw (grades 5-8), Emma Victoria Danard (grades 9-10, 1943), Walter Fredrickson (grades 11-12, 1943; grades 9-12), Ellen Elizabeth Wherrett (grades 1-4)
1944-1945
Elizabeth Violet “Bessie” Bradshaw (grades 5-8), Alfred Robert Pelissier (grades 9-11), Ellen Elizabeth Wherrett (grades 1-4)
1945-1946
Elizabeth Violet “Bessie” Bradshaw (grades 5-8), Alfred Robert Pelissier (grades 9-11), Ellen Elizabeth Wherrett (grades 1-4)
1946-1947
Ninalon? Duke (grades 5-8), Stanley Robert Kitchen (grades 11-12), Gwendolyn Mary Young (grades 9-10), ? (grades 1-4)
1947-1948
Gladys Pearl Gardiner (grades 5-8), Stanley Robert Kitchen (grades 11-12), Patricia Anne Naylen (grades 1-4), ? (grades 9-10)
1948-1949
Margaret Chambers (grades 9-10), Gladys Pearl Gardiner (grades 5-8), Stanley Robert Kitchen (grades 11-12), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grade 1), Patricia Anne Naylen (grades 2-4)
1949-1950
Berna Jean Brown (grades 9-10), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grades 1-2), Wilda Arlene Mitchell (grades 3-5), Edward J. F. Nasker (grades 11-12, 1949), Jessie Edna May Reynolds (grades 6-8), Alex Sabeski (grades 11-12)
1950-1951
Audrey Catherine Hedge (grades 6-8), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grades 1-2), Wilda Arlene Mitchell (grades 3-5), Alex Sabeski (grades 9-11)
1951-1952
Cecil Victor Gunn (grades 9-11), Audrey Catherine Hedge (grades 6-8), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grades 1-2), Amy Zink (grades 3-5)
1952-1953
Gerald Robert Green (grades 9-10, 1953), Audrey Catherine Hedge (grades 7-8), Ruth Annie Fairlie Henderson (grades 11-12), Donalda May Hertlein (grades 5-6), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grades 1-2), Edythe Ramona Phillips (grades 9-10, 1953 substitute), William Gordon Renton (grades 9-10), Amy Zink (grades 3-4)
1953-1954
Gerald Robert Green (grades 9-10), Ruth Annie Fairlie Henderson (grades 11-12), Donalda May Hertlein (grades 5-6), Irene May Matheson (grades 2-3), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grade 1), Edythe Ramona Phillips (grades 7-8), Amy Zink (grades 3-4)
1954-1955
Adele Fedak (grades 5-6), Gerald Robert Green (grades 11-12), Elvadora Pearl Olivianne Holmberg (grades 3-4), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grade 1), May Irene Matheson (grades 2-3), Irene C. F. Patterson (grade 8), Edythe Ramona Phillips (grade 7), David Wallace Shaw (grades 9-10)
1955-1956
Audrah Eileen Grant Caughell (grade 9, 1955), H. Louise Collier (grade 8, 1955), Gerald Robert Green (grades 11-12), Elvadora Pearl Olivianne Holmberg (grade 2), Barbara Hazel Hume (grades 3-4), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grade 1), May Irene Matheson (grades 4-5), Olga Kathryn Mazur (grades 6-7), David Wallace Shaw (grades 9-10), Islay Shaw (grade 8)
1956-1957
Donald S. Grant (grade 10), Gerald Robert Green (grades 11-12), Marion A. Hall (grades 6-7, 1957), Elvadora Pearl Olivianne Holmberg (grades 2-3), Barbara Hazel Hume (grades 3-4), Olga Kathryn Mazur Kowalchuk (grades 6-7, 1956), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grade 1), May Irene Matheson (grade 5), Islay Shaw (grades 8-9)
1957-1958
Gerald Robert Green (grades 11-12), Lois Hall (grades 11-12, 1958 substitute), Mrs. E. Hazelhurst (grades 5-6), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grades 1-2), May Irene Matheson (grades 6-7), Barbara Hazel H. Murray (grades 3-4), Islay Shaw (grades 8-9), T. A. Strike (grade 10), Mona Lorraine Swanson (grades ?)
1958-1959
Mona Lorraine S. Johnston (grades 2-3), Kathleen Louise Matheson (grade 1), May Irene Matheson (grades 6-7), June Marilyn Minish (grades 3-4), Arlene Jean White (grades 5-6), ? (grades 8-12)
Among the other teachers of Binscarth School were Ruth C. Brent (1887), Percy D. Harris (1893), Mr. A. Dorsett (1890s), Mr. W. J. Small (1900s), and W. L. Dyker.
Postcard view of Binscarth School, constructed in 1901 (circa 1920)
Source: Walter Beatty
Binscarth School (1923)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7447, Album 2, Page 40.
Winter view of the Binscarth School (no date)
Source: Archives of Manitoba / Historic Resources Branch
The Principal’s residence for Binscarth School (circa 1913)
Source: Education Department Report, 1913, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Binscarth Consolidated School (November 1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, File 149B Binscarth.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.62662, W101.27907
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Binscarth,” Russell Banner, 27 August 1908, page 8.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Personalities,” Manitoba School Journal, Vol. 6, No. 9, May 1944, page 2.
Binscarth Memories by Binscarth History Committee, 1984. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5649.B55 Bin]
Manitoba School Records Collection, Binscarth School District No. 506 - Daily Registers, GR2061, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Binscarth Consolidated School District No. 2326 - Daily Registers, GR2061, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, Schools in the Interlake - Manitoba - Volume 2, Binscarth - File 149B, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
“Binscarth Consolidated School officially opened,” Russell Banner, 28 August 1952, page 1.
We thank Bill Crerar, Ed Arndt, Malcolm Bell, and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 21 March 2024
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