Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ebor School No. 1332 / Ebor Monument / Ebor War Memorial (Ebor, RM of Pipestone)

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In 1904, a post office opened at 10-9-29W in the Rural Municipality of Pipestone and was named Sproule, for local settler Robert Sproule. With the arrival of the CPR Reston Subdivision in 1906, its name changed to Ebor Station, shortened to Ebor in 1909, allegedly named for the original Roman name of the English city of York (Ebor Accum), the home of a settler in the area.

At one time, Ebor had a general store (1906-1972), rink (1926-1965), bowling alley, blacksmith shop (1907-1941), Orange Hall (1908-1929), United Church (1908-1959), lumber yard, McCulloch & Son grain elevator (1911-1929), Manitoba Pool grain elevator (1929-1961), Searle grain elevator (1927-1961), and railway station and section house (1906-1961). The post office closed in 1970.

A monument was erected by the Ebor Women’s Institute in 1982. It commemorates Sproule School that operated between 1906 and 1912 at SW10-9-29W and Ebor School No. 1332. The Ebor School District was established formally in March 1905, with a school building at SE19-10-28W. In August 1919, it became Ebor Consolidated School No. 1332 at NE10-9-29W. It closed in 1971 and was removed from the site sometime after 1982. Another monument at the site commemorates soldiers from the local area who served and were killed in the First World War.

Principals (Ebor School)

Period	Principal
1919-1921	Mr. Dietrich
1921-1922	Miss McLellan
1922-1923	Mr. Perlette
1923-1924	Harold Arthur Whitfield (1876-1951)
1924-1925	William Popp
1925-1927	Henry Lambert Williams (1890-1976)
1927-1929	Myrtle Rietta Conway (1908-2005)
1929-1930	James Cameron Martin (1910-1982)
1930-1933	Kenneth Donald Bruce (1892-1968)
1933-1935	David S. Schellenberg (?-?)
1935-1937	Claude Amnesty Joyce (1908-1997)
1937-1938	Mr. Campbell
1938-1940	Kenneth Donald Bruce (1892-1967)
1940-1941	Russel Henry Hayter (1905-1962)
1941-1942	Albert B. Diamond
1942-1943	Ethel Wood
1943-1945	Frank Unrau Dyck (?-1982)
1945-1950	Josie Kathleen Okapiece McGill
1950-1959	None?
1959-1961	James Allan “Jim” Coughlan (c1939-2014)
1961-1962	None
1962-1965	William Ross “Bill” Shackel (1939-2018)
1965-1967	Floyd Royce Clark
1967-1968	?
1968-1970	Anna Gwen Decorte
1970-1972	Linda Louise Lowe

Teachers

One-room schoolhouse teachers (before consolidation): Miss McIver (1906), Miss Cummings (1907), Miss Violet Bradley (1907), Miss R. Smith (1909), Mr. Jack Bradley (1910-1911), Miss Louise Brown (1912), Mr. Rogers (1912), Miss McFetridge (1913), Miss Alice Acres (1913), Miss E. A. Tesley (1913-1914), Miss Hay (1914), Miss Irene Deacon (1915), Miss Florie Jacobs (1915-1916), Mr. Dietrich (1916-1917), and Miss Fultz (1917-1919).

Period	Teachers
1919-1920	Miss Marjorie Brady (junior grades), Mr. Dietrich (senior grades)
1920-1921	Miss Barr (junior grades), Mr. Dietrich (senior grades)
1921-1922	Miss McLellan (senior grades), Miss Morrison (junior grades)
1922-1923	Miss E. Duncan (junior grades), Mr. Perlette (1920s, senior grades?)
1923-1924	Miss E. Duncan (junior grades), Harold Arthur Whitfield (senior grades)
1924-1925	Miss E. Duncan (junior grades), William Popp (senior grades)
1925-1926	Miss E. Duncan (junior grades), Henry Lambert Williams (senior grades)
1926-1927	Miss E. Duncan (junior grades), Henry Lambert Williams (senior grades)
1927-1928	Miss E. Duncan (junior grades), Myrtle Rietta Conway (senior grades)
1928-1929	Myrtle Rietta Conway (senior grades), Miss A. R. Mitchell (junior grades)
1929-1930	James Cameron Martin (senior grades), Miss A. R. Mitchell (junior grades)
1930-1931	Kenneth Donald Bruce (senior grades), Miss Reeves (junior grades)
1931-1932	Kenneth Donald Bruce (senior grades), Miss Ola Horn (junior grades)
1932-1933	Kenneth Donald Bruce (senior grades), Miss Ola Horn (junior grades)
1933-1934	Margaret Jeannette Patterson (junior grades), David S. Schellenberg (senior grades)
1934-1935	Margaret Jeannette Patterson (junior grades), David S. Schellenberg (senior grades)
1935-1936	Claude Amnesty Joyce (senior grades), Margaret Jeannette Patterson (grades 1-5)
1936-1937	Irene M. Duncan (grades 1-8), Claude Amnesty Joyce (senior grades)
1937-1938	Mr. Campbell (senior grades), Irene M. Duncan (grades 1-7)
1938-1939	Kenneth Donald Bruce (senior grades), Audrey A. Young (grades 1-8)
1939-1940	Kenneth Donald Bruce (senior grades), Miss Lillian Pearl Smeltz (grades 1-8)
1940-1941	Russel Henry Hayter (senior grades), Mrs. C. McLean (senior grades?, 1940?), Miss Lillian Pearl Smeltz (grades 1-8)
1941-1942	Albert B. Diamond (senior grades), Miss Kerr (junior grades)
1942-1943	Mrs. Irene M. Wadham (grades 1-8), Ethel Wood (senior grades)
1943-1944	Frank Unrau Dyck (senior grades), Mrs. M. D. Smith (senior grades?), Mrs. Irene M. Wadham (junior grades)
1944-1945	Eleanor Elsie Blackmore (grades 1-6), Frank Unrau Dyck (grades 7-11)
1945-1946	Eleanor Elsie Blackmore (grades 1-6), Josie Kathleen Okapiece (grades 7-11)
1946-1947	Miss Jones (senior grades?), Josie Kathleen Okapiece (senior grades), Miss Doreen Panghorn (junior grades)
1947-1948	Miss Annie Isabell Duffy (grades 1-6, 1947), Miss M. A. Edwards (grades 1-6, 1947), Miss Ursula M. Misouri (grades 1-6, 1948), Josie Kathleen Okapiece (senior grades)
1948-1949	W. Hunt (grades 1-6, 1948), Josie Kathleen Okapiece McGill (grades 7-11), Ursula M. Misouri (grades 1-6)
1949-1950	Josie Kathleen Okapiece McGill (senior grades), Alan [Allan?] McNabb McKnight (grades 1-9)
1950-1951	Mary Edith Barnard (grades 1-10, 1951), Bertha Augusta Drury (grades 1-10, 1950)
1951-1952	Otto Abraham Perlett (grades 1-9)
1952-1953	Miss Lois Doreen Sturtevant (grades 1-8)
1953-1954	Miss Lois Doreen Sturtevant (grades 1-8)
1954-1955	Charles “Charlie” Buck [Buch?] (grades 1-8)
1955-1956	Josie Kathleen Okapiece McGill (grades 1-9)
1956-1957	Josie Kathleen Okapiece McGill (grades 1-9)
1957-1958	Josie Kathleen Okapiece McGill (grades 1-9)
1958-1959	Miss Ida Carolotta Wasacase (grades 1-8)
1959-1960	James Allan Coughlan (grades 5-8), Gwenneth Ann C. “Gwen” Hart (grades 1-4)
1960-1961	James Allan Coughlan (grades 5-8), Gwenneth Ann C. “Gwen” Hart (grades 1-4)
1961-1962	Mrs. Monica Gordon (grades 1-8)
1962-1963	Miss Phyllis Fay Lestage (grades 1-4), William Ross Shackel (grades 5-8)
1963-1964	Lillian Margaret Anne Hayward (grades 1-4), William Ross Shackel (grades 5-8)
1964-1965	Lillian Margaret Anne Hayward (grades 1-4), William Ross Shackel (grades 5-8)
1965-1966	Lillian Margaret Anne Hayward Anderson (grades 1-4), Floyd Royce Clark (grades 5-8)
1966-1967	Lillian Margaret Anne Hayward Anderson (grades 1-4), Floyd Royce Clark (grades 5-8)
1967-1968	Gloria Beryl Jackson (grades 2-3), Miss L. Meda (junior grades)
1968-1969	Anna Gwen Decorte (grades 3-4), Gloria Beryl Jackson (grades 1-2)
1969-1970	Ellen Veronica Whelan Bickford (grades 1-2), Anna Gwen Decorte (grades 3-4)
1970-1971	Ellen Veronica Whelan Bickford (grades 1-2), Linda Louise Lowe (grades 3-4)
1971-1972	Linda Louise Lowe (grades 3-4), Orysia Anne Pidlypny (grades 1-2)

Photos & Coordinates

Ebor School, constructed in 1928 (no date) by W. R. Beveridge Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 99. Ebor commemorative monument and war memorial, situated near the former site of Ebor School (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.73874, W101.33196 denoted by symbol on the map above

First World War Casualties

Name	Occupation	Service	Rank	Birth Date	Death Date
Lorenzo “Ren” Nelson Lewis	Bushman	16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	22 June 1887	13 June 1916
Leonard Peckham	Farm labourer	43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	4 September 1893	8 October 1916
Joseph Gerald Cocksedge	Farmer	28th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	19 November 1887	16 October 1916
William Thomas Scott	Salesman	43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	25 February 1892	8 August 1918
William Renton	Farmer	28th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	12 September 1892	6 November 1917

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitoba Pool Grain Elevator (Ebor, RM of Pipestone)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ebor School / Arawana School No. 917 (RM of Wallace-Woodworth)

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.

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.

Trails Along the Pipestone by Pipestone History Project, c1981, pages 151-153. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.P56 Tra]

The Great Human Heart II: A History of the Manitoba Women’s Institute, 1980-2000 by Manitoba Women’s Institute, 2000.

Manitoba Pool Fonds, S. J. McKee Archives, Brandon University.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Ebor School District No. 1332 - Daily Registers, GR0466, Archives of Manitoba.

For the names of First World War casualities from Manitoba who do not appear on any physical monument in the province, see the Manitoba Historical Society War Memorial. If you know of a name that is omitted from this list, please contact the MHS War Memorial Researcher Darryl Toews (darryl@mhs.mb.ca).

Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

Financial support for research reported on this page was provided by the Manitoba Heritage Grants Program (2015-2016).

We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 19 May 2024

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