Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dand Consolidated School No. 1913 (Dand, Municipality of Deloraine-Winchester)

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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 brick building, constructed in 1919, 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.

Principals

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-?)

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)

Teachers

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)

Photos & Coordinates

Dand School

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

The former Dand School building (June 1975)
Source: Murray Teetaert

The former Dand School building with the Manitoba Pool grain elevator in the background

The former Dand School building with the Manitoba Pool grain elevator in the background (June 1975)
Source: Murray Teetaert

Dand School commemorative monument

Dand School commemorative monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.34022, W100.49888
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.

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: 3 January 2024

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