Historic Sites of Manitoba: Deleau School No. 785 (Deleau, RM of Sifton)

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The Deleau School District was organized in April 1893 and a school building operated in the village of Deleau in the Rural Municipality of Sifton. In 1919, it became the Deleau Consolidated School District when it was consolidated with Menteith Union School No. 313 and Maffam School No. 727. The school closed in 1965 and henceforth students from this area went to Hartney Consolidated School No. 2389 or Souris Consolidated School No. 2388. The district was dissolved the following year. The building is no longer present at the site but a stone monument at the tree-lined site, now a public park, commemorates it.

Principals

Period	Principal
1919-1920	E. H. Gardiner
1920	Elizabeth A. Smith
1921	Leon LeRoy Nichols (1886-1983)
1921-1922	Lella L. Moon
1922-1928	?
1928-1931	George Henry Blackwell (1864-1941)
1931-1935	Miss Naomi L. Kenner
1935-1942	William George Hume (1902-1967)
1942-1944	Emmanuel Victor Edmond “Ed” Emond (1917-2000)
1944-1945	Eldred George Miller (1906-1995)
1945-1954	J. H. Wedel
1954-1961	Henriette Nelly Andre (1907-2001)

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1919-1920	E. H. Gardiner (grades 9-11, August-April), Elizabeth A. Smith (grades 9-11, April-June), Janet I. Thomson (grades 1-8)
1920-1921	Marjory R. Brown (grades 1-8, August-December; grades 1-7, January-June), Leon LeRoy Nichols (grades 8-11, January-June), Elizabeth A. Smith (grades 9-11, August-December)
1921-1922	Lella? L. Moon (grades 8-11), F. Ferne Morden (grads 1-7, August-December), Reba E. Wallace (grades 1-7, January-June)

Among the other teachers who worked at Deleau School were Joseph Edwin Murphy and Leopold Raymond Labossiere.

Photos & Coordinates

Deleau School (no date) by W. R. Beveridge Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 125. Deleau School commemorative monument (May 2013) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.58108, W100.56888 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maffam School No. 727 (RM of Sifton)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Menteith Union School No. 313 (RM of Sifton)

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.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 20 May 2023

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