The Eldorado School District was formally organized in March 1901 and a one-room school building was constructed near the site of this cairn, in the southwest quarter of 3-6-7 west of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Thompson. During its years of operation, about 145 students attended the school.
Among the teachers who worked at Eldorado School were Beatrice Farmer (1902), Mary Ellis (1903), Miss Williams (1904), Miss Woods (1905), Miss Collins (1906), Beatrice Umphrey (1909), Edna Fraser (1910), Violet Hefford (1911), Margaret Lickie (1912), Lena Tandy (1913-1914), Jennie Bardarson (1915-1916), Myrtle Hubert (1916-1918), Ella Kennedy (1918-1919), Josie Tandy (1919-1920), Dorothy Johnson (1920-1922), Elizabeth Copeland (1922-1925), Grace Latcham (1925-1927), Carol McBain (1927-1935), Lillian Gillian (1935-1938), Mary Eva Hopkins (Fall 1938 - Spring 1942), Mae A. Knox (Fall 1942 - Spring 1943), Ethel Agnes Buchanan (Fall 1943 - Spring 1944), Elsie May Clearwater (Fall 1944 - Spring 1945), Pearl Irene Campbell (Fall 1945 - Spring 1946), Edwin Ross “Ed” Baily (Fall 1946 - Spring 1950), Ellen Dean Dunn (Fall 1950 - Spring 1951), Agnes Hildebrand (Fall 1951 - Spring 1953), Elizabeth Stevenson (Fall 1953 - Spring 1956), James N. Orchard (Fall 1956 - Spring 1957), and Margaret Elizabeth McTavish (Fall 1957 - Spring 1959).
The school closed in 1959 and the district was formally dissolved in January 1960. Students in this area went to Miami Consolidated School No. 74 or Roseisle Consolidated School No. 726. The building and contents were sold at a public auction. A monument was erected in 1992.
Eldorado School (no date) by A. J. Manning
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 61.
Eldorado School commemorative monument (October 2010)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.44360, W98.33223
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Miami & R. M. of Thompson Chronicles by Thompson History Book Committee, c1998. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5649.M50Mia]
Manitoba School Records Collection, Eldorado School District No. 1120 - Daily Registers, GR7164, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 December 2024
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