Historic Sites of Manitoba: Cloverdale School No. 577 (RM of St. Andrews)

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The Cloverdale School District was organized formally in April 1889 and a school building operated at NW4-14-4E in the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews. Around 1904, a new one-room schoolhouse was built on the original site and, in 1923, a second room was added for high school classes. The third school building, a two-classroom configuration, was constructed in 1951, with grades 1 to 6 in one room and grades 7 to 11 in the other. It closed in 1967 as jurisdiction for the area became the responsibility of the Lord Selkirk School Division. The two-classroom school building stood vacant at the site until the spring of 2013 when it was demolished.

Principals

Period	Principal
1925-1927	Helen M. Dawson
1927-1929	Florence R. Aldridge
1929-1938	Robert Alexander Laurie (1899-1953)
1938-1939	Teresa Moloney (1899-1983)
1939-1942	Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (1907-1985)
1942-1944	Lillian E. Campbell
1944-1945	Gudrun Palson
1945-1946	?
1946-1947	Peter Frederick Kutcher (1918-2013)
1947-1952	?
1952-1953	William Esau
1953-1954	?
1954-1957	Sidney Norman Tether (1894-1974)
1957-1959	W. J. Cook

Teachers

Among the teachers of Cloverdale School were Miss Cornish (1919), Peter Loutit (1920), Audrey Linklater (1934-1938, 1952-1955), Miss Winter (1950s), Mrs. Cheslock (1967), and Mr. Chezick (1967).

Photos & Coordinates

Cloverdale School (no date) by H. D. Cumming Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 90. The former Cloverdale School building (July 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Interior of the former Cloverdale School building (July 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Interior of the former Cloverdale School building (July 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site of the former Cloverdale School (May 2013) Source: Lorraine Barnett Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.16628, W97.00174 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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.

Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry 1880-1981: R.M. of St. Andrews by Municipality of St. Andrews, 1982. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.S22 Bey]

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

We thank Audrey Blommaert and Lorraine Barnett for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 8 February 2022

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