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The Dominion City School District was established formally in March 1877 and a school building operated in Dominion City in what is now the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin. In 1901, a two-storey, four-classroom wood frame schoolhouse was built at the site. It became part of the Dominion City Consolidated School No. 45 in 1913, consolidating with Whitby School No. 1421, Erin School No. 385, and part of Bow Park School No. 166.
By 1914, the school building was considered unsafe so, two years later, a new two-storey, six-classroom brick structure was erected at a cost of $18,456 and the old building was sold. As student enrollment increased through the years, space was added, including a sixth classroom in 1946 and a two-room annex in 1948. Electrical service was added in 1935.
A new primary school, now part of the local arena, was designed by the Winnipeg architectural firm of Smith Carter and Katelnikoff and built in 1956. The annex was removed. The old brick building closed in December 1965 and was later demolished.
Period
Principal
?-?
Herbert Walter Graham (1878-1938)
1898-1899
James Houston
1899-1901
David Iverach (1871-1946)
1901-1902
J. A. Findlay
1902-1903
Daniel Baldwin (1872-1949)
1903-1904
Angus McNevin (1862-1923)
1904-1906
William Robertson Beveridge (1873-1949)
1906-1907
J. M. Clindinin
1907-1909
Lena A. Waddell
1909-1910
Robert William Dunlop (1876-?)
1910-1912
?
1912-1913
Henry Johnston “Harry” Everall (1877-1933)
1913-1914
Charles Linwood “Charlie” Miller (1891-1958)
1914-1917
William George Edwin Pulleyblank (1890-1955)
1917-1918
James Corrigill (1857-1922)
1918-1919
Kenneth Donald Bruce (1892-1968)
1919-1920
George William Holmes
1920-1922
Clarence Lorne Kerr (1897-1973)
1922-1924
John Elwin Laird (1876-1950)
1924-1925
James Woodside (c1892-?)
1925-1927
Axel Vopnfjord (1902-1993)
1927-1930
John Dawson Evelyn (1862-1942)
1930-1931
Mary Ethel Simms (c1895-1947)
1931-1933
Amy Smith
1933-1934
Louis Erwin “Lewis” Gendron (1896-1973)
1934-1936
William Skidmore (c1885-?)
1936-1937
George Walton F. Brisbin (1906-1990)
1937-1939
William Moore (1914-1983)
1939-1941
Glenn Homer Turner (1912-1987)
1941-1943
William Charles “Charlie” Rhind (1904-1982)
1943-1945
Joseph A. McCracken (1911-1991)
1945-1946
James Andrew McKaughan (1877-1968)
1946-1951
Harry Sharpe (c1905-1958)
1951-1952
Vivian Clarkson “Clark” Hardy (1897-1982)
1952-1956
Myrtle Christina Evans Witherspoon (1906-1998)
1956-1957
Florence Grace Chappell (c1912-1967)
1957-1960
J. A. Dyck
1960-1961
Henry Martens
1961-1966
Gabriel J. Girard (1935-2006)
?
Douglas Albert Keith “Doug” Gruenke (1942-1977)
Among the teachers who worked at Dominion City School were Edgar Burgess (1892-1893), David Baldwin (1890s), William John Bates (c1895-1901), and Celine Thuot.
The original Dominion City School building (circa 1917)
Source: Education Department Report, 1917, Manitoba Legislative Library.The new Dominion City School building, shortly after construction in 1916 (circa 1917)
Source: Education Department Report, 1917, Manitoba Legislative Library.Dominion City School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 15.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.14172, W97.16013
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Business: Smith Carter and Katelnikoff / Smith Carter Architects and Engineers / Architecture49
“School tender notice [Dominion City School],” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 March 1956, page 24.
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.
R.M. of Franklin Turns a Century, 1883-1983 by The RM of Franklin Book Committee, May 1983, pages 88-90.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 22 December 2022
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