The Ellwood School District was organized formally in May 1903. A school building was constructed on the northwest quarter of 31-12-11 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Municipality of North Norfolk. The school closed in January 1965.
Among the teachers of Ellwood School were Helen B. Corbett (1905), Perley Murphy (1905), Elizabeth McNeilly (1906), Lena Robertson (1906), Robena C. McRae (1907-1908), Frederick L. Bell (1908-1909), James S. Atrill (1909-1910), J. Holmes Cathcart (1910-1911), V. M. Wilton (1912), Helen Winstone (1912), C. Douglas Street (1913), Mary Wright (1914), Florence Toll (1914-1915), A. L. MacLellan (1915), L. R. Thorn (1915), Grace McDonald (1916), A. A. Paisley (1916-1917), Annie McEachern (1917-1920), Annie E. Vine (1918), H. I. Lamb (1918), Dorothy A. Nevill (1920-1921), H. Spencer Percival (1921), Helga Bergman (1922-1923), Reta L. Mackenzie (1923-1924), Mary L. Day (1924), Mary C. Campbell (1925), Olive A. Jenner (1925-1928), Eva M. McIntyre (1928-1929), Annie L. McFarlane (1929-1930), Dorothy Isobel Murta (1930-1932), Ida Jean Fehr (1932), Violet M. Jackson (1932-1937), Nancy McKay (1937-1938), Margaret Wilkinson (1938-1940), Cecil B. Montgomery (1940-1942), Mrs. G. A. Lowe (1942), Mrs. K. M. Duncan (1942-1944), Elizabeth M. Ritteringham (1944), M. T. Pennarum (1945), Mary L. Duncan (1945-1946), Agnes Martens (1946), Thelma P. Manns (1947), Edna Lane (1947), Mrs. Evelyn G. MacKinley (1947-1948), Norma Patterson (1948-1949), Mary Wiebe (1949-1950), I. D. Bothwell (1950-1951), Dorothy M. Hay (1951-1952), Bernice Doran (1952-1953), Shirley Jones Maxwell (1953-1954), Loretta Mashinski (1954-1955), Mrs. Gertrude Tait (1955), Mrs. A. Twerdochlib (1956), Mrs. C. Smith (1956), Darlene R. Lee (1956-1957), Mrs. V. A. Hagebonn (1957), Mrs. Gregory (1957), Mrs. Smith (1957), Robert Deverson (1957-1960), Gary Rogers (1958), Mrs. Elizabeth Littan (1958), and Dorothy Blair (1959).
On 7 August 1994, a monument in the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone was dedicated to the settlers, teachers, trustees, parents and students of Ellwood School. The school site was about one mile west and a half mile south of the monument.
Ellwood School (no date)
Source: Arlene Jarema
Ellwood School commemorative monument (September 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Ellwood School commemorative monument (May 2023)
Source: Arlene JaremaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.06377, W98.95112
denoted by symbol on the map above
A Rear View Mirror: A History of the Austin and Surrounding Districts by Anne M. Collier, Altona: Friesen Printing, 1967.
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.
We thank Arlene Jarema for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 December 2023
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