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The Dugald School District began as the Plympton School District in 1879 and was split by the Department of Education that same year into the South Plympton School District and North Plympton School District, the latter of which was renamed Dugald School District in 1931. The Dugald School District built a new three-room schoolhouse in 1936, based on an architectural design of Winnipeg architect Gilbert C. Parfitt, at a cost of $8,000. This building was located near the northeast corner of NE33-10-5 East at Dugald in the Rural Municipality of Springfield.
In 1960, high school grades were transferred to Springfield Collegiate at Oakbank within the Transcona-Springfield School Division and, four years later, all remaining elementary grades were relocated to the new Dugald Consolidated School. The former schoolhouse, the district’s third purpose-build structure, stood until its demolition in 1972.
Period
Principal
Before 1936
1936-1937
Ross Laverne Donald (1907-1992)
1937-1939
Francis Gardner “Frank” Hall (1914-1977)
1939-1942
James Humphrey Plewes (1873-1963)
1942
William Harold Copeland (?-?)
1943
Edgar Burgess (1867-1954)
1943-1945
Christabel Blevins Frost (1911-1995)
1945
Muriel Amelia Robertson Redpath (1906-1983)
1946-1947
Douglas Gordon Pomeroy (1911-1968)
1947-1948
Fernand Pierre Genest
1948-1949
Stanley Francis Pye (1908-1985)
1949-1951
Henry Benjamin Bees (c1886-1968)
1951-1952
Thomas Walter Kelly
1952-1954
Stanley “Stan” Gertz
1954-1955
Barney M. Engel
1955-1956
Ernest Pankratz (1928-2015)
1956-1958
Laura May Cooke Gall (1912-2004)
1958-1960
Joseph Rudolph “Joe” Minarik (1930-1995)
1960-1963
James Friesen
1963-1964
Robert Barry Findlater (c1941-1966)
After 1964
Period
Teachers
Before 1936
1936-1937
Ross Laverne Donald (grades 6-10), May Elizabeth Kennedy (grades 5-8)
1937-1938
Francis Gardner “Frank” Hall (grades 9-11), May Elizabeth Kennedy (grades 5-8), Beatrice May Williams (grades 1-4)
1938-1939
Francis Gardner “Frank” Hall (grades 9-11), May Elizabeth Kennedy (grades 5-8), Beatrice May Williams (grades 1-4)
1939-1940
Neilona Mary Chatfield (grades 5-8), Edna Jean Johnstone (grades 1-4), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11)
1940-1941
Neilona Mary Chatfield (grades 5-8), Edna Jean Johnstone (grades 1-4), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11)
1941-1942
Christabel Blevins (grades 5-8), Edna Jean Johnstone (grades 1-4), James Humphrey Plewes (grades 9-11)
1942-1943
Christabel Blevins (grades 5-8), William Harold Copeland (grades 9-11, 1942), Edgar Burgess (grades 9-11, 1943), Edna Jean Johnstone (grades 1-4)
1943-1944
Etta Elvira Beatty Aitken (grades 5-8), Christabel Blevins (grades 9-11), Edna Jean Johnstone (grades 1-4), Dorothy Evelyn Mowat (grades 1-4, 1944)
1944-1945
Christabel Blevins (grades 9-11), Dorothy Evelyn Mowat (grades 1-4), Elsie Grace Stacey (grades 5-8)
1945-1946
Edith May Kelly (grades 5-8), Ida Ermyntrude Pearson (grades 1-4, 1946), Douglas Gordon Pomeroy (grades 9-11, January-June), Muriel Amelia Robertson Redpath (grades 9-11, September-December), Gloria Shingleton (grades 1-4)
1946-1947
Edith May Kelly (grades 5-8), Ida Ermyntrude Pearson (grades 1-4), Douglas Gordon Pomeroy (grades 9-11)
1947-1948
Fernand Pierre Genest (grades 9-11), Edith May Kelly (grades 5-8), Ida Ermyntrude Pearson (grades 1-4)
1948-1949
Verna Louise Davidson (grades 1-4, 1949), Howard D. McCloy (grades 5-8), Ida Ermyntrude Pearson (grades 1-4, 1948), Stanley Francis Pye (grades 9-11)
1949-1950
Henry Benjamin Bees (grades 9-11), Marion Pearl Dracass (grades 5-8), Janet Morrison (grades 1-4, 1950), Margaret Ann Taylor (grades 1-4, 1949)
1950-1951
Henry Benjamin Bees (grades 9-11), Anne Mehyk (grades 1-4), Joan Evelyn Stewart (grades 5-8)
1951-1952
Thomas Walter Kelly (grades 9-11), Anne Mehyk (grades 1-4), Joan Evelyn Stewart (grades 5-8)
1952-1953
Stanley Gertz (grades 9-11), Michael Makarchuk (grades 5-8), Joan Evelyn Stewart Nowak (grades 1-4)
1953-1954
Stanley Gertz (grades 9-11), Hazel Beatrice Hournie (grades 5-8), Joan Evelyn Stewart Nowak (grades 1-4)
1954-1955
Margaret Josephine Duke (grades 1-4), Barney M. Engel (grades 9-11), Hazel Beatrice Hournie (grades 5-8)
1955-1956
Patsy Irene Challis (grades 5-8), Margaret Josephine Duke (grades 1-4), Ernest Pankratz (grades 9-11)
1956-1957
Margaret Josephine Duke (grades 1-4), Laura May Cooke Gall (grades 9-11), Charlotte Jane Ross (grades 5-8)
1957-1958
Margaret Josephine Duke (grades 1-4), Laura May Cooke Gall (grades 9-11), Charlotte Jane Ross (grades 5-8)
1958-1959
Jarvis Korchak (grades 5-8), Joseph Rudolph “Joe” Minarik (grade 9-11), Gladys Reinhardt (grades 1-4)
1959-1960
Jarvis Korchak (grades 5-8), Joseph Rudolph “Joe” Minarik (grade 9-10), Gladys Reinhardt (grades 1-4)
1960-1961
Donna Pearl Bell (grades 1-3), James Friesen (grades 4-8)
1961-1962
Agnes Buhr (grades 3-5), James Friesen (grades 6-8), Katherine Plett (grades 1-2)
1962-1963
James Friesen (grades 6-8), Mary Gibbins (grades 3-5), Katherine Plett (grades 1-2)
1963-1964
Robert Barry Findlater (grades 6-8), Mary Gibbins (grades 3-5), Katherine Plett (grades 1-2)
After 1964
Dugald School (circa 1936)
Source: Education Department Report, 1936, Manitoba Legislative Library.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.88543, W96.84693
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Gilbert C. “Gil” Parfitt (1886-1966)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: South Plympton School No. 81 (RM of Springfield)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: North Plympton School No. 80 / Dugald School No. 80 (Dugald, RM of Springfield)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dugald Consolidated School No. 2427 (Dugald, RM of Springfield)
Dugald West topographic map, 62H/15, Edition 2, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“New schools,” Winnipeg Free Press, 2 May 1936, page 34.
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.
Springfield, 1st Rural Municipality in Manitoba, 1873-1973, Dugald Women’s Institute.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, North Plympton School District No. 80 - Daily Registers, GR9480, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Dugald School District No. 80 - Daily Registers, GR9480, Archives of Manitoba.
Plans and Shop Drawings (GS 0100), North Plympton School District, GR3125, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 October 2022
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