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A monument in Crandall in the Municipality of Prairie View, dedicated on 1 August 1982, is situated on the former site of Crandall Consolidated School No. 460. The bell from the school is incorporated into the monument. Known originally as Crandall School No. 1196 when it was established here in August 1902, it was renamed in May 1918 when it was consolidated with three nearby rural schools: Chumah School No. 401, Carlingville School No. 460, and Hazelbank School No. 1906.
Period
Principal
1913-1917
William John Robinson (1882-1947)
1917-1918
Anfin Brandvig
1918-1920
Willard Ervin Rife (1890-1970)
1920-1923
R. M. Moore
1923-1929
Caroline Cumming (1885-1979)
1929-1930
John Hazelett Duffy (1878-1942)
1930-1932
Henry Benjamin Bees (c1886-1968)
1932-1954
George Love Dibblee (1889-1979)
1954-1957
Samuel Stewart Bryan (1889-?)
1957
E. E. Skabar
1957-1962
William C. Davison
1962-1963
Nicholas “Nick” Peech (1919-1995)
1963-1964
R. C. Beech
1964-1965
L. Wolowich
Period
Vice-Principal
1929-1932
Hazel Arretta Vandecar Foster (1897-1990)
School Year
Teachers
1929-1930
Margaretta Blight (grades 3-4), John Hazelett Duffy (grades 10-11), Louise Merle Kennedy (grades 1-2, January-June), Alice Edith Lucy Saunders (grades 1-2, September-December), Hazel Arretta Vandecar (grades 8-9), Mary Ruth Weichman (grades 5-7)
1930-1931
Henry Benjamin Bees (grade 11), Margaretta Blight (grades 1-3), Myrtle V. McArthur (grades 3-5), Hazel Arretta Vandecar (grades 9-10), Mary Ruth Weichman (grades 6-8)
1931-1932
Henry Benjamin Bees (grade 11), Eva E. Greenlay (grades 1-2), Myrtle V. McArthur (grades 3-5), Hazel Arretta Vandecar (grades 9-10), John Victor Wilkinson (grades 6-8)
1932-1933
George Love Dibblee (grade 11), Eva E. Greenlay (grades 1-2), Myrtle V. McArthur (grades 3-5), Effie E. Schmidt (grades 9-10), John Victor Wilkinson (grades 6-8)
Among the other teachers of Crandall School were Anna Mima McIntyre (1921-1922), Fred Kirbyson (?-?), Jean Suszko (1961-1962), and Richard Nielsen (?-?).
Crandall School (no date) by W. R. Beveridge
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 64.
Crandall pioneers commemorative monument (September 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.15030, W100.78498
denoted by symbol on the map above
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Council reports,” Birtle Eyewitness, 3 October 1961, 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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 9 September 2024
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