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The Dand School District was established formally in January 1918 at this site in Dand, in what is now the Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester. A vote of local ratepayers was held in December 1918 at which a $9,000 debenture was approved following a 10-0 vote for the purchase of land and construction of a new schoolhouse for the consolidated school district, catchment which was previously included Chain Lakes School No. 783 and Luther School No. 1018.
The original building, constructed in 1919 using bricks from Hartney, had two classrooms with the basement utilized as a third classroom (1958-1964). In 1964, students in grades 9 to 11 were bused to Deloraine so the school returned to two active classrooms. It closed in 1970 then the building was used as a community centre for 15 years. It was demolished in March 1986.
A monument erected in June 1970 commemorates the students and teachers of Dand School.
Period
Principal
1919
Miss Anna B. Smith
1919-1921
Miss M. A. Currie
1921-1922
Frederick Ladlay “Fred” Bousfield (1865-1957)
1922-1923
Henrietta Beveridge Herkes (1899-1988)
1923
Harry L. Stein (1902-1974)
1923
Mr. H. Lewis
1923
Janet Louisa May More (1896-1986)
1923-1924
Jesse Carlyle French (1876-1958)
1924-1926
Alice Myrtle Jennings (1894-1964)
1926-1928
Amy Myrtle Beavis Anderson (1903-1990)
1928-1930
Wesley Sterling McGill (1904-1986)
1930-1933
Ella Bryson Cumming (1899-1985)
1933-1936
Wilma Mildred Sutton Day (1909-2004)
1936-1939
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (1910-1998)
1939-1940
Iris Ada Caroline Diamond (1905-1990)
1940-1941
Nillaphine? [Willaphine?] Evelyn Leech
1941-1944
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (1910-1998)
1944-1946
Janet Louisa May More (1896-1986)
1946-1950
Richard Nielsen (1914-1997)
1950-1953
Thomas “Tom” Tesarski (1924-2018)
1953
Kenneth Donald Bruce (1892-1968)
1954-1957
Margaret Jane Caldbick Franklin Manshreck (1920-2013)
1957-1970
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (1910-1998)
Period
Teachers
1918-1919
(Spring only): Jessie D. Andrews
1919-1920
Anna B. Smith (grades 6-10, September), Miss M. A. Currie (grades 6-10, October-June), Frances M. Holden (grades 1-5, September-December), Bertha Norton (grades 1-5, January-June)
1920-1921
Miss M. A. Currie (grades 6-10), Bertha Norton (grades 1-5)
1921-1922
Frederick Ladlay Bousfield (grades 6-10), Hilda M. Morrison (grades 1-5)
1922-1923
Henrietta Beveridge Herkes (grades 6-11), Winnifred H. Prowse (grades 1-5)
1923-1924
Elvira Collen [Collins?] (grades 1-5, January-June), Jesse Carlyle French (grades 6-11, December-June), Clara Belle Haskins (grades 1-5, August-December), Mr. H. Lewis (grades 6-11, November), Janet Louisa May More (grades 6-11, November-December), Harry L. Stein (grades 6-11, August-October)
1924-1925
Alice Myrtle Jennings (grades 7-11), Agness B. Walker (grades 1-6)
1925-1926
Alice Myrtle Jennings (grades 7-11), Agness B. Walker (grades 1-6)
1926-1927
Amy Myrtle Beavis (grades 7-10), M. G. Fesanco (grades 1-6, January-?), Muriel E. Heddon (grades 1-6, September-December), Janet Louisa May More (grades 1-6, ?-June)
1927-1928
Amy Myrtle Beavis (grades 6-10), Muriel E. Heddon (grades 1-5)
1928-1929
Verna Iola Coad (grades 1-5), Wesley Sterling McGill (grades 6-11)
1929-1930
Verna Iola Coad (grades 1-5), Wesley Sterling McGill (grades 6-11)
1930-1931
Ella Bryson Cumming (grades 7-11), Marion Theresa Frame (grades 1-6)
1931-1932
Ella Bryson Cumming (grades 7-11), Marion Theresa Frame (grades 1-6)
1932-1933
Ella Bryson Cumming (grades 7-11), Marion Theresa Frame (grades 1-6)
1933-1934
Mary Edna Anderson (grades 1-6), Wilma Mildred Sutton (grades 7-11)
1934-1935
Mary Edna Anderson (grades 1-6), Wilma Mildred Sutton (grades 7-11)
1935-1936
Mary Edna Anderson (grades 1-6), Wilma Mildred Sutton (grades 7-11)
1936-1937
Mary Edna Anderson (grades 7-11), Helen Beatrice Cochrane (grades 1-6)
1937-1938
Mary Edna Anderson (grades 7-11), Helen Beatrice Cochrane (grades 1-6)
1938-1939
Mary Edna Anderson (grades 7-11), Edith Angelina Smith (grades 1-6)
1939-1940
Ebor [Eber?] Richard Irwin Carruthers (grades 1-6), Iris Ada Caroline Diamond (grades 7-11)
1940-1941
Nillaphine? [Willaphine?] Evelyn Leech (grades 7-11), Helen Margaret Murchie (grades 1-6)
1941-1942
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 7-11), Helen Margaret Murchie (grades 1-6)
1942-1943
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 7-11), Ruth Elizabeth Norton(grades 1-6)
1943-1944
Margaret E. Harrison (grades 1-6), Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 7-11)
1944-1945
Margaret E. Harrison (grades 1-6), Janet Louisa May More (grades 7-11)
1945-1946
Margaret E. Harrison (grades 1-6), Janet Louisa May More (grades 7-11)
1946-1947
Mary Isobel Drummond (grades 1-6), Richard Nielsen (grades 7-11)
1947-1948
Mary Isobel Drummond (grades 1-6), Richard Nielsen (grades 7-12)
1948-1949
Phyllis Christine Jasper (grades 1-6), Richard Nielsen (grades 7-11)
1949-1950
Phyllis Christine Jasper (grades 1-6), Richard Nielsen (grades 7-11)
1950-1951
Bertha Norton Burnett (grades 1-6, c.November-June), Mrs. A. Dickie? (grades 1-6 substitute, pt Fall), Mary Evelyn Munro (grades 1-6, September-c.November), Thomas Tesarski (grades 7-11)
1951-1952
Frieda Couling (grades 1-6), Thomas Tesarski (grades 7-12)
1952-1953
Virginia Pruden (grades 1-6), Thomas Tesarski (grades 7-12)
1953-1954
Kenneth Donald Bruce (grades 7-11, September-December), Margaret Jane Caldbick Franklin (grades 7-11, January-June), Phyllis Christine Jasper (grades 1-6)
1954-1955
Margaret Jane Caldbick Franklin (grades 7-11), Virginia Pruden (grades 1-6)
1955-1956
Margaret Jane Caldbick Franklin (grades 7-12), Virginia Pruden (grades 1-6)
1956-1957
Margaret Jane Caldbick Franklin (grades 7-12), Isobel Mildred Radcliffe (grades 1-6)
1957-1958
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 7-11), Isobel Mildred Radcliffe (grades 1-6)
1958-1959
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 9-11), Isobel Mildred Radcliffe (grades 1-4), Ruth Marion Stewart (grades 5-8)
1959-1960
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 9-11), Mildred Mae Millard (grades 1-4), Ruth Marion Stewart (grades 5-8)
1960-1961
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 9-11), Verbena Mae Maguire (grades 5-8), Mildred Mae Millard (grades 1-4)
1961-1962
Mildred Mae Millard Day (grades 1-4), Anna Marie Foussard (grades 5-8), Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 9-11)
1962-1963
Mildred Mae Millard Day (grades 1-4), Anna Marie Foussard (grades 5-8), Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 9-11)
1963-1964
Anna Marie Foussard (grades 5-8), Marjorie Joy Henderson (grades 1-4), Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 9-11)
1964-1965
Anna Marie Foussard (grades 1-4), Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 5-8)
1965-1966
Judith Elaine Arnold (grades 1-4), Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 5-8)
1966-1967
Judith Elaine Arnold (grades 2-4), Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 5-8)
1967-1968
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 5-8), Dorothy Edith Tasker (grades 1-4)
1968-1969
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 5-8), Dorothy Edith Tasker (grades 1-4)
1969-1970
Mary Edna Anderson Hodgson (grades 6-8), Dorothy Edith Tasker (grades 1-5)
Dand School (no date) by George Hunter
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 58.
The former Dand School building (June 1975)
Source: Murray Teetaert
The former Dand School building with the Manitoba Pool grain elevator in the background (June 1975)
Source: Murray Teetaert
Dand School commemorative monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.34022, W100.49888
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Teachers at the convention,” Brandon Sun, 15 October 1920, page 6.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
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.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #52 School District of Dand, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Golden Memories: A History of the Dand Community, Dand Women’s Institute, 1967, pages 17-24.
More Golden Memories, 1967-1991 by Dand History Book Committee, 1991, pages 10-13.
Obituary [Helen Margaret Dickie], Shoal Lake Star, 18 May 1993, page 11.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Murray Teetaert for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 25 May 2024
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