Historic Sites of Manitoba: Carberry School No. 125 (First Avenue, Carberry)

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The Carberry School District was formally established in July 1881, on First Avenue in the Town of Carberry. A two-storey brick structure was erected here in 1895, on a design by Brandon architect W. H. Shillinglaw, using brick from a brickyard at Sidney.

In January 1962, it became Carberry Consolidated School when it consolidated with several surrounding rural schools, including Linwood School No. 641, Melbourne School No. 234, Pleasant Point School No. 267, Prosser School No. 2040, and Stinson School No. 325. The building was demolished in 1964 and replaced on the same site by the present R. J. Waugh School.

A monument on the school grounds was erected in 1974 by Willard Switzer, the last surviving student of the original school. It preserves the cornerstone and roof-top bell from the school building.

Principals

Period	Principal
1888-1889	Miss Oliver
1889-1892	?
1892	John Cameron Saul (1869-1939)
1892-1898	?
1898-1899	George Young
1899-1904	Ezra Hamilton (1864-?)
1904-1905	James Houston
1905-1910	James M. McQueen
1910-1912	?
1912-1913	W. R. Robeson
1913-1914	Archibald McDonald
1914-1915	Merodach Green
1915-1925	John Cunningham Anderson (1862-1929)
1925-1928	Leslie A. Glinz
1928-1930	Robert Hugh Wellwood (1901-1983)
1930-1931	George Boyer Poole (1880-1958)
1931-1934	George Edward Whitlaw (1904-1996)
1934-1938	Barney Thordarson (1904-1974)
1938-1939	Bethel Harold Stinson (1903-1960)
1939-1941	Robert Stanley “Stan” McGill (1909-1994)
1941-1944	George Scott Belton (1904-1967)
1944-1945	Bertha E. Nelson
1945-1957	Richard Buck (1907-1994)
1957-1959	Mrs. M. Macdonald
1959-1960	A. V. Gabriel
1960-1967	John Pottinger Minions
1967-1973	B. Anderson

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1920-1921	M. Christie, I. M. Coltart, E. Mitchell, J. R. Smyth, M. E. Switzer, M. G. Willis

Among the teachers who worked at Carberry School were Thomas Laidlaw (1890s), Jean Isabel Wellwood (1918-1919), Garnet M. Morrison (late 1930s), Wilfrid B. “Wilf” Book, and Penny Ham (1960s).

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard of Carberry School (no date) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2011-0047 Postcard of Carberry School (1929) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2011-0081 Carberry School (no date) by A. J. Hatcher Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 41. Carberry School (1940) Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7454, Album 21, Page 21. Remains of the demolished Carberry School building (1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey, Carberry 23. Carberry School monument in front of R. J. Waugh School (December 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.87045, W99.35792 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

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

“Carberry, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, June 1912, Archives of Manitoba.

The Carberry Plains: 75 Years of Progress. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.C36 Car]

“Carberry kicks off its 90th annual exhibition,” Brandon Sun, 4 July 1974, page 10.

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.

Carberry Plains - Century One: 1882-1982 by Carberry History Book Committee, 1982, page 224.

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 September 2021

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