Established in December 1872, the Boyne School District occupied a log building in the northwest quarter of 22-6-4 west of the Principal Meridian, known locally as the Salterville Schoolhouse. In 1893, a much larger wood frame structure was erected beside it, with separate entrances for boys and girls. It was used until 1930 when a replacement was built and the earlier school was sold to a local farmer for use as a residence at SE2-7-4W. It was standing as of the early 1990s.
The present one-classroom building, erected in 1930 with a full concrete basement and coal furnace, had electricity installed in 1946. It closed in June 1966 and the remaining students were bussed to Carman. The building was used as a community centre. In 1988, it was designated as a Municipal Heritage Site by the Rural Municipality of Dufferin. On 7 March 2013, the building was moved into Carman to the site of the Dufferin Historical Society Museum where it was put onto a new concrete foundation and is being restored. Exterior renovations were completed in 2015.
Among the teachers at Boyne School were Herbert Inman (1878), Theophilus Finn (1883-1892), D. Honeywell (1885-1887), Johnston A. Watson (1888, 1890), Ernest J. Motley (1889), Jabez Bowen Hugg (1891, 1893), A. J. Cameron (1892), Joseph Paxton (1893-1897), Albert Malcolmson (1897-1899), E. M. Hinch (1900), E. S. Smith (1900-1902), Roland H. B. North (1905-1906), Elmina S. Jickling (1907), J. E. Struthers (1908-1909), Agnes A. Brigham (1909), Allena M. McGillvray (1909), Ida L. M. Wyness (1910-1911), Jessie Immes (1912), Elizabeth Power (1913-1915), Eva J. M. Reid (1915), Enid Crothers (1916), H. Cecilia Rowan (1917), Evelyn Churchill (1917-1918), Dorothy Green (1919), Gladys Stewart (1920), and Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost (1943-1945). Others for whom the period of employment is unknown include Mildred Pritchard, Evelyn Pritchard, Alice York, Lydia Mallory, Anthony Hogg, and Abram W. Friesen.
The former Boyne School building at its original site (August 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The Boyne School building being moved to the Dufferin Historical Museum (March 2013)
Source: Trish Aubin
Boyne School at its new home at the Dufferin Historical Museum (June 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the Boyne School before restoration (June 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the Boyne School before restoration (June 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Boyne School building after the completion of exterior renovations (2015)
Source: Trish AubinSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.50231, W97.92942
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dufferin Historical Society Museum (44 Kings Park Road, Carman)
Boyne School Project, Dufferin Historical Museum.
“Cox – Frost,” Brandon Sun, 17 July 1948, page 6.
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.
The Rural Municipality of Dufferin, 1880-1980 compiled and edited by June M. Watson with the assistance of the History Book Committee, RM of Dufferin, 1982.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
“Celebrating the contributions of rural permit teachers,” The Valley Leader, 3 June 2009.
We thank Trish Aubin for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 June 2023
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