The Brierley School District was organized formally in February 1912 and a school building operated on the northeast quarter of 27-38-26 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Municipality of Minitonas-Bowsman. The school closed in 1967. The former school building is no present at the site but it is commemorated by a monument dedicated on 27 July 1989. Stone markers attached to the monument commemorate the service of local men killed during the First World War and Second World War.
Among the teachers of Brierley School were Mr. J. McGeown (1913), Mr. E. A. Frayne (1916), H. Tripp (1967), and Mr. and Mrs. Macallroy.
Brierley School (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 3.
Brierley School and its teacherage (circa 1917)
Source: Education Department Report, 1917, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Brierley School commemorative monument (July 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N52.29654, W101.08477
denoted by symbol on the map above
Name
Occupation
Service
Rank
Birth Date
Death Date
Charles Cooper
[Alexander]Farmer
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
Private
10 August 1897
20 April 1917
Goodman Sigurdson
[Brandon Armoury, Brandon College]Farm Worker
8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Sergeant
22 February 1894
10 November 1917
George Henry Reginald Tyner
Labourer
8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
30 April 1886
28 April 1917
Name
Service
Rank
Birth Date
Death Date
Norman Archibald Hunter Pott
[Minitonas]Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Private
26 June 1921
11 February 1944
James Richard Scott
South Saskatchewan Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Private
28 November 1922
6 August 1944
Harold Walter Walmsley
Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Sergeant
20 May 1917
4 July 1944
For the names of First World War casualities from Manitoba who do not appear on any physical monument in the province, see the Manitoba Historical Society War Memorial. If you know of a name that is omitted from this list, please contact the MHS War Memorial Researcher Darryl Toews (darryl@mhs.mb.ca).
Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.
Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.
Financial support for research reported on this page was provided by the Manitoba Heritage Grants Program (2015-2016).
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.
Boots, Buggies & Buses: Swan Valley Schools in Quest of Education, Swan Valley School Division No. 35, circa 1998.
We thank Marie Dueck and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 February 2021
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