Historic Sites of Manitoba: Emerson School No. 27 (Emerson, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The Emerson School District was established formally in July 1875 in Emerson. In 1959, it was consolidated with Aux Marais School No. 55, Dufferin School No. 82, Manchester School No. 251, Middleville School No. 295, and Post Road School No. 1280 to form Emerson Consolidated School No. 2365. In 1967, it joined the Boundary School Division.

Principals

Period	Principal
1889-1890	John Cameron Saul (1869-1939)
1890-1892	J. W. Litch
1892-1898	?
1898-1899	Charles Brack
1899-1902	Alexander Gilbert McArthur (1869-?)
1902-1905	Clarence Church Stewart (1871-1950)
1905-1906	Angus McNevin (1862-1923)
1906-1907	William Robertson Beveridge (1873-1949)
1907-1910	Duncan Crerar (1877-1910)
1910-1913	Frederick H. Burkholder (1888-?)
1913-1915	Harold Ludlow Albright (1888-1955)
1915-1916	Harold Elwin Riter (1892-1967)
1916-1917	George William Burrell (1857-1941)
1917-1918	James Malcolm Carmichael (1885-1931)
1918-1920	John H. Snyder (c1874-?)
1920-1921	John de Bedick Saunderson (c1877-?)
1921-1923	Alfred James Struthers (1889-1979)
1923-1930	George Wesley Darnell White (1891-1947)
1930-1937	Duncan Bruce Moorhead (1889-1951)
1937-1940	Herbert Stanley McIntyre
1940-1941	William Moore (1914-1983)
1941-1942	William G. Kelly
1942-1947	James Edwin Scarrow (1902-1982)
1947-1951	James Hugh Cameron (1890-1981)
1951-1953	Carl Leo Pokrant (1908-1992)
1953-1956	Chester MacMillan Fraser (1904-1975)
1956-1957	D. W. C. Rowan
1957-1960	John Martens
1960-1961	E. P. Van Der Hoeven
1961-1963	Jean Stuart Williamson (c1920-2015)
1963-1965	James F. Blewett
1965-1966	Jean Stuart Williamson (c1920-2015)
1966-1972	Peter Yarmie (1933-1988)

Teachers

Period	Teachers
1936-1937	Doris Marietta Cochraine (grades 9-10), Ethel Emily Melita Groves (grades 5-6), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 3-4), Herbert Stanley McIntyre (grade 12), Verna Olga Mayhew (grades 1-2), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 11), Martha Alice Olberg (grades 7-8)
1937-1938	Doris Marietta Cochraine (grades 9-10), Ethel Emily Melita Groves (grades 5-6), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 3-4), Herbert Stanley McIntyre (grade 12), Verna Olga Mayhew (grades 1-2), Gertrude Blanche Perrin (grade 11), Lorne Albert Tomlinson (grades 7-8)
1938-1939	Doris Marietta Cochraine (grades 9-10), Ethel Emily Melita Groves (grades 5-6), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 3-4), Herbert Stanley McIntyre (grade 12), Gertrude Blanche Perrin (grade 11), Alma Helena Sonley (grades 1-2), Lorne Albert Tomlinson (grades 7-8)
1939-1940	Ethel Emily Melita Groves (grades 5-6), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 3-4), Herbert Stanley McIntyre (grade 12), Margery Magee (grades 9-10), William Moore (grade 11), John Leslie “Jack” Morrow (grades 7-8), Alma Helena Sonley (grades 1-2)

Among the other teachers of Emerson School were D. H. McCalman (c1882), John W. Carroll, J. Muriel Smith (wife of Michael Ewanchuk), Emily A. Fingland, and Robert McIlroy “Bob” Cross.

Photos & Coordinates

Emerson School building erected in 1906 (circa 1906) Source: Education Department Report, 1906, Manitoba Legislative Library. Postcard view of Emerson School (no date) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2023-0067 Emerson School (no date) by A. A. Herriot Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 11. Emerson School grounds (circa 1945) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.00447, W97.21085 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Emerson Elementary School (323 Emerson Avenue, Winnipeg)

Sources:

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

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

“Emerson, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, March 1912, Archives of Manitoba.

“Farewell to teachers,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 June 1940, page 8.

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 Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 26 October 2023

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