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The Emerson School District was established formally in July 1875, with the first schoolhouse being a one-room wood frame structure, on Park Street near First Avenue at Emerson, commissioned in November 1875. It opened to students in January 1876 at a cost $275 to build and was later expanded to include a storm porch. That schoolhouse served until demand for classroom space outstripped available capacity, with temporary quarters acquired by the school district via a one-year rental of the local library hall starting around July 1879. The Park Avenue structure was subsequently rented to as a dwelling.
In June 1880, the district called for tenders for wood frame building with a brick venneer and interior hollow brick wall to help divide two classrooms. Completed by the local partnership of Noble and Fallis at a cost of around $1,000, this second Emerson School opened to students in October 1880, though an account suggest the building was not fully completed until 1881. A second school facility would be operated within the district, located within West Lynne west of the Red River, it known as West Lynne School / West Emerson School. Emerson School was destroyed in a fire on 8 February 1906 along with many of the district records held within, including the Brack Memorial Library named for a former Principal. Classes were temporarily held at the Emerson Town Hall and the Emerson Masonic Lodge for the balance of the school term.
Emerson School was replaced with a two-storey wood frame school in 1906 designed by architect Frank Robert Evans. This third schoolhouse of the same name measured 25 feet by 30 feet and was built by the Hempton Brothers at a cost of $8,250. It opened to students in autumn 1906 and served until 1919 when it was given a $15,000 mirrored-design expansion, doubling its classroom capacity from four to eight. With the Christmas break of 1939, West Lynne School / West Emerson School was closed and all classroom instruction centred at Emerson School starting in January 1940.
In 1959, Emerson School No. 27 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. A new elementary school, located immediately to the west of the second Emerson School, was commisioned that same year based on architectural plans of Smith Carter Searle and Associates. It was completed in 1960 and provided classroom space for the consolidated district, with collegiate grades also held in both spare classrooms within as well as seven temporary huts located behind the new Emerson Elementary School. High school grades were transferred to the Boundary School Division in 1959, with the consolidated school district being dissolved into the division in 1967. Both the collegiate and elementary school operated from 1960 to 1972 after which collegiate grades were relocated elsewhere within the division, with Emerson School remaining under a single Principal.
Period
Principal
1881-1883
Daniel Hereward McCalman (1861-1938)
1884
none
1885-1888
Daniel Hereward McCalman (1861-1938)
1889
J. S. Davidson
1889-1890
John Cameron Saul (1869-1939)
1891
James William Armstrong (1860-1928)
1891-1893
J. W. Litch
1893-1897
William Christopher Hartley (1869-1936)
1897-1900
Charles Brack (1869-1900)
1900
Richard A. Fines (1871-1966)
1900-1902
Alexander Gilbert McArthur (1869-?)
1902-1906
Clarence Church Stewart (1871-1950)
1906-1907
Angus McNevin (1862-1923)
1907-1908
William Robertson Beveridge (1873-1949)
1908-1910
Duncan Crerar (1877-1910)
1910-1911
Frederick Harold “Fred” Burkholder (1888-1962)
1911
Thomas Flood Elmes (1848-1912)
1911-1913
Frederick Harold “Fred” Burkholder (1888-1962)
1913-1914
Harold Ludlow Albright (1888-1955)
Among the earliest teachers at Emerson School were Miss Anderson (January-June 1876), Annie Edwards (Fall 1876), and George Baldwin (Spring 1877 - ?), Mr. S. Menary (Fall 1879).
Full district staff are listed below for most years between 1882-1914, aside from where teachers are identified to have worked at West Lynne School / West Emerson School.
Period
Teachers
1880
(Emerson School only): Thomas Baldwin? (? grades)
1881
(Emerson School only): James A. Badgley (intermediate grades), Jessie Gunn (primary grades), Daniel Hereward McCalman (senior grades)
1882
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): ? (all grades)
1883
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Daniel Hereward McCalman (senior grades), ?
1884
(Emerson School & West Lynne School; did not operate)
1885
(Emerson School only, January-June; did not operate August-December due to financial hardship): James A. Badgley, Jessie Gunn, Daniel Hereward McCalman
1886
(Emerson School only, May-June & August-December; did not operate January-May due to financial hardship): Martha Boddy, Daniel Hereward McCalman
1887
(Emerson School only): Martha Boddy (junior grades, Spring; ? grades, Fall), Hughena L. Cameron (? grades, Fall), J. S. Davidson (senior grades, Fall), Daniel Hereward McCalman (senior grades, Spring)
1888
(Emerson School only): Hughena L. Cameron, J. S. Davidson (senior grades), Christina N. McLeod
1889
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Hughena L. Cameron, J. S. Davidson (senior grades, Spring), Christina N. McLeod, John Cameron Saul (senior grades, Fall)
1890
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): J. A. Baskerville (Fall), Hughena L. Cameron, J. B. Hoidge (Fall), F. A. Horsman, Christina N. McLeod, John Cameron Saul (senior grades)
1891
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): James William Armstrong (senior grades, Spring), Edith Mable Bickle, Hughena L. Cameron, J. W. Litch (senior grades, Fall), Christina N. McLeod (Spring), Eva E. Morrison (Fall)
1892
(Emerson School & West Lynne School; Spring records not available): J. W. Litch (senior grades, Fall), M. B. Scarlett (Fall), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (Fall; later married Thomas Jackson)
1893
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): L. Broatch, William Christopher Hartley (senior grades, pt Fall), J. W. Litch (senior grades, Spring - pt Fall), Luella Munro (Spring), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington, Ambrose William Stock (Fall)
1894
(Emerson School only): William Christopher Hartley (grades 7+), Eva E. Morrison (grades 1-3), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (grades 4-6)
1895
(Emerson School only): William Christopher Hartley (grades 7+), Eva E. Morrison (grades 1-3), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (grades 4-6)
1896
(Emerson School only): William Christopher Hartley (grades 7+), Eva E. Morrison (grades 1-3), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (grades 4-6)
1897
(Emerson School only): Charles Brack (grades 7+, Fall), William Christopher Hartley (grades 7+, Spring), Kate Kennedy (grades 1-3, Fall), Eva E. Morrison (grades 1-3, Spring; later married Mr. S. R. Root), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (grades 4-6)
1898
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Charles Brack (senior grades), Archie W. Healy, Kate Kennedy, Mary Elizabeth Sitlington, Mona C. Stirling (Fall)
1899
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Charles Brack (senior grades), E. May Fraser, Archie W. Healy, Kate Kennedy, Mona C. Stirling
1900
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Charles Brack (senior grades, January), Gertrude Douglas (Fall), Richard A. Fines (senior grades, c. March-June), E. May Fraser, Archie W. Healy (Spring), Alexander Gilbert McArthur (senior grades, Fall), Florence M. Nixon (Fall), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (Fall), Mona C. Stirling (Spring)
1901
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Gertrude Douglas (Spring), E. May Fraser (Spring), Anna Hugg (Fall), Alexander Gilbert McArthur (senior grades), Florence M. Nixon, Mary Elizabeth Sitlington, W. Campbell Stirling (Fall), Margaret Young (Spring)
1902
(Emerson School & West Lynne School; records not available)
1903
(Emerson School & West Lynne School; records not available)
1904
(Emerson School & West Lynne School; records not available)
1905
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Ethel M. “Effie” Adams (primary grades, Fall), Miss Ewing (primary grades, Spring), Mabel Forster, Vessie? F. McKinley, Mary Elizabeth Sitlington, Clarence Church Stewart (senior grades), Gladys L. Young (Fall)
1906
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Ethel M. “Effie” Adams (Spring), Helen Allan (Spring), Nellie M. Emmond (Fall), Sara Nettie Hamilton (Spring), Vessie? F. McKinley (Spring), Angus McNevin (senior grades, Fall), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington, Ella Smith (Fall), Clarence Church Stewart (senior grades, Spring)
1907
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Ethel M. “Effie” Adams, William Robertson Beveridge (senior grades, Fall), Isabel Cranley (Fall), Sarah Nettie Hamilton, Mary E. MacFlinn? (Spring), Angus McNevin (senior grades, Spring), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington
1908
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Ethel M. “Effie” Adams (grades 1-2), William Robertson Beveridge (senior grades, Spring), Isabel Cranley (Spring), Duncan Crerar (senior grades, Fall), Sara Nettie Hamilton, Elizabeth McArthur (Fall), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (grades 7-8)
1909
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Ethel M. “Effie” Adams (grades 1-2), Duncan Crerar (grades 9-11), Alice Cuthbert (Fall), E. Mabel Hill (Spring), Elizabeth McArthur, Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (grades 6-8)
1910
(Emerson School only): Ethel M. “Effie” Adams (grades 1-3, January-March), L. Mae Asselstine (Fall), Frederick Harold “Fred” Burkholder (grades 9-11, September-December), Annie Calder (grades 1-3, April-June), Duncan Crerar (grades 9-11, January-June), Alice Cuthbert, Hazel Kitson (grades 6-8, September-December), Mary Elizabeth Sitlington (grades 6-8, January-June; later married Thomas Jackson), Lilly Snydal (grades 1-2, September-December)
1911
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): L. Mae Asselstine (January-June), Laura V. Asselstine (grades 6-8, January-June), Frederick Harold “Fred” Burkholder (grades 9-11, January-June & September-June), Margaret Connell (Augusr-December), Alice Cuthbert, Thomas Flood Elmes (grades 9-11, August), Alma C. Long (grades 6-8, August-December), Lilly Snydal (grades 1-2)
1912
(Emerson School only, January-June): Frederick Harold “Fred” Burkholder (grades 9-11), Alice Cuthbert (grades 3-5), Alma C. Long (grades 6-8), Lilly Snydal (grades 1-2)
1912-1913
(Emerson School only): Frederick Harold “Fred” Burkholder (grades 8-11), Alice Cuthbert, Edith Dunbar, Lilly Snydal (grades 1-2)
1913-1914
(Emerson School & West Lynne School): Harold Ludlow Albright (grades 8-11), Alice Aime, Mina Henders (Spring), G. McFadden? (Fall), E. J. Rey? (Fall), Della R. Robinson (grades 1-2, September-December), Margaret J. Scott (grades 1-2, January-June), Ruby Stock [Stork?] (Fall), L. Maud Taylor
Period
Principal
1914-1915
Harold Ludlow Albright (1888-1955)
1915
W. M. Mitchell
1916
George Russell Belton (1875-1954)
1916
Harold Elwin Riter (1892-1967)
1916-1917
Emily Ann Fingland (1877-1957)
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 George 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
Donald William Campbell Rowan (?-1980)
1957-1960
John H. Martens
Period
Teachers
1914-1915
Harold Ludlow Albright (grades 8-11), Annie Belle Fraser (grades 5-7), Mina Henders (grades 3-4), Margaret J. Scott (grades 1-2)
1915-1916
Harold Ludlow Albright (grades 8-11, August-October), George Russell Belton (grades 8-11, January-April), Lucy M. Mackenzie (grades 1-2), Mabel W. Peto (grades 3-4), W. M. Mitchell (grades 8-11, October-December), Harold Elwin Riter (grades 8-11, May-June), Margaret E. Wood (grades 5-7)
1916-1917
George William Burrell (grades 9-11, April-June), Lavina W. Crawford (grdaes 4-6, August-April), R. I. Cross (grades 4-6, May-June), Emily Ann Fingland (grades 8-11, August-December; grades 9-11, January-March), Lucy M. Mackenzie (grades 1-2), Mabel W. Peto (grades 2-4), Margaret E. Wood (grades 7-8)
1917-1918
James Malcolm Carmichael (grades 9-11), Elizabeth E. Fahey (grades 4-6), Lucy M. Mackenzie (grade 1), Mabel W. Peto (grades 2-4), Margaret E. Wood (grades 6-8, August-December), L. Maud Whitman (grades 6-8, January-June)
1918-1919
(school closed October - pt November and pt January due to epidemic): Helen S. Davis (grades 2-3), Elizabeth E. Fahey (grades 4-5), Margaret Hooper (grade 1, September-June), John H. Snyder (grades 9-11), Annie Stewart (grades 6-8), Miss E. G. Storm? (grade 1, September)
1919-1920
Marion Cumming (grades 9-10), Helen S. Davis (grades 3-4), Elsie Blanche Fisher (grade 5-6), Margaret Hooper (grades 1-2), John H. Snyder (grade 11), Annie Stewart (grades 7-8)
1920-1921
Evelyn Brady (grades 2-3), Helen S. Davis (grades 4-5), Margaret Hooper (grades 1-2), Mary Louise McManus (grades 9-10, January-June), John Barry de Bedick Saunderson (grade 11), Florece Smith (grades 9-10, August-December), Annie Alice Stewart (grades 6-8)
1921-1922
Evelyn Brady (grades 2-3, August-December), Helen S. Davis (grades 4-5), Emily C. Kerr (grades 6-7), Mary Louise McManus (grades 9-10), Irene L. Spence (grade 1), Alfred James Struthers (grade 11), Christina A. Tod (grades 2-3, January-June)
1922-1923
Helen S. Davis (grades 4-5), Emily C. Kerr (grades 6-7), Mabel W. Peto (grades 2-3), Irene L. Spence (grade 1), Alfred James Struthers (grades 10-11), George Wesley Darnell White (grade 9)
1923-1924
Evelyn Basted (grades 4-5), Helen S. Davis (grades 6-8), David Harmon Lent (grade 9), Mabel W. Peto (grades 2-3), Irene L. Spence (grade 1), George Wesley Darnell White (grades 10-11)
1924-1925
Evelyn Basted (grades 4-5), Helen S. Davis (grades 6-8), David Harmon Lent (grade 9), Mabel W. Peto (grades 2-3), Irene L. Spence (grade 1), George Wesley Darnell White (grades 10-11)
1925-1926
Carrie E. Bailey (grades 4-5), Martha Cameron (grade 1), Robert McIlroy Cross (grade 9), M. M. Johnston (grades 6-8, February substitute), N. G. Martin (grades 6-8, September-February & March-June), Mabel W. Peto (grades 2-3), George Wesley Darnell White (grades 10-11)
1926-1927
Carrie E. Bailey (grades 4-5), Martha Cameron (grade 1), Helen McRae (grades 6-8), Luella M. Telfer (grade 9), George Wesley Darnell White (grades 10-11), Rita C. Wood (grades 2-3, September-December; grades 2-4, January-June)
1927-1928
Carrie E. Bailey (grade 5), Gladys M. Fraser (grades 1-2, September-February; grade 1, February-June), Helen McRae (grades 6-8), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 9), Myrta L. Moorhead (grade 2, February-June), George Wesley Darnell White (grades 10-11), Rita C. Wood (grades 3-4)
1928-1929
Carrie E. Bailey (grade 6), Elvira Collen (grade 1), Jean Loughland (grades 7-8), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 9), Myrta L. Moorhead (grades 2-3), Inez Jane Overend (grades 4-5), George Wesley Darnell White (grades 10-11)
1929-1930
Verna Olga Mayhew (grade 1), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 9), Myrta L. Moorhead (grades 2-3), Martha Alice Olberg (grades 7-8), Inez Jane Overend (grades 4-5), J. Muriel Smith (grade 6; later married Michael Ewanchuk), George Wesley Darnell White (grades 10-11)
1930-1931
Richard Buck (grade 12, September-June), Thomas Walter Halligan (grade 12, September), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 3-4), Verna Olga Mayhew (grades 1-2), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 11), Martha Alice Olberg (grades 7-8), Inez Jane Overend (grades 5-6), Gertrude Blanche Perrin (grades 9-10)
1931-1932
Richard Buck (grade 12), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 5-6), Helen Agnes MacGregor (grades 3-4), Verna Olga Mayhew (grades 1-2), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 11), Martha Alice Olberg (grades 7-8), Gertrude Blanche Perrin (grades 9-10)
1932-1933
Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 5-6), Helen Agnes MacGregor (grades 3-4), Verna Olga Mayhew (grades 1-2), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 11), Harold Edwin Richard Murphy (grade 12), Martha Alice Olberg (grades 7-8), Gertrude Blanche Perrin (grades 9-10)
1933-1934
Lena May Adams (grades 3-4), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 5-6), Verna Olga Mayhew (grades 1-2), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 11), Harold Edwin Richard Murphy (grade 12), Martha Alice Olberg (grades 7-8), Gertrude Blanche Perrin (grades 9-10)
1934-1935
Lena May Adams (grades 3-4), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 5-6), Herbert Stanley McIntyre (grade 12), Verna Olga Mayhew (grades 1-2), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 11), Martha Alice Olberg (grades 7-8), Gertrude Blanche Perrin (grades 9-10)
1935-1936
Lena May Adams (grades 4-5), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grade 6), Herbert Stanley McIntyre (grade 12), Verna Olga Mayhew (grades 1-3), Duncan Bruce Moorhead (grade 11), Martha Alice Olberg (grades 7-8), Gertrude Blanche Perrin (grades 9-10)
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
Isobel Ferguson Broadfoot (grades 1-5, August-December at West Lynne School; grades 5-6, January-June at Emerson School), Ethel Emily Melita Groves (grades 5-6, August-December; grades 7-8, January-June), Edith Mae Hutchinson (grades 3-4), Herbert Stanley McIntyre (grade 12), Margery Magee (grades 9-10, August-December; grade 10, January-June), William Moore (grade 11), John Leslie “Jack” Morrow (grades 7-8, August-December; grade 9, January-June), Alma Helena Sonley (grades 1-2)
1940-1941
Franklin Joseph Barber (grade 9, January-June), Audrey Myrtle Berkley (grades 5-6), William George Kelly (grade 9, August-December; grade 11, January-June), William Moore (grades 11-12, August-December; grade 12, January-June), John Leslie “Jack” Morrow (grade 10, August-December), Bernice Odell Patton (grades 1-2, January-June), Alma Helena Sonley (grades 1-2, August-December; grade 10, January-June), Gladys Elizabeth Voycheshin (grades 7-8), Edna Marie Wilton (grades 3-4)
1941-1942
Franklin Joseph Barber (grade 10, August-December), Audrey Myrtle Berkley (grades 5-6, August-April), William George Kelly (grade 12), Olive M. McMahon (grade 10, January-June), Bernice Odell Patton (grades 1-2), Alma Helena Sonley (grade 11), Nancy Mary Wilson Syme (grade 9), Anne Ford Unsworth (grades 5-6, May-June), Gladys Elizabeth Voycheshin (grades 7-8), Edna Marie Wilton (grades 3-4)
1942-1943
Corenne Althea Busby (grade 10), Dorothy Elizabeth C. Grainger (grades 1-2), Herman Julian Johnson (grade 11), Winifred Murielle Rowe (grades 7-8), Margaret Amelia Sayer (grades 5-6), James Edwin Scarrow (grade 12), Nancy Mary Wilson Syme (grade 9), Edna Marie Wilton (grades 3-4)
1943-1944
Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grades 7-8), Corenne Althea Busby (grades 9-10), Richard Hines (grade 11), Mary Helen MacLean (grades 1-2), James Edwin Scarrow (grade 12), Edith Laura Thompson (grades 5-6), Edna Marie Wilton (grades 3-4)
1944-1945
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 3-4), Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grades 7-8), Corenne Althea Busby (grade 10), Mary Helen MacLean (grades 1-2), Dorothy Ethel Peto (grade 9), James Edwin Scarrow (grade 11), Edith Laura Thompson (grades 5-6)
1945-1946
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 3-4), Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grades 7-8), Robert Norman Currie (grades 9-10), Mary Helen MacLean (grades 1-2), James Edwin Scarrow (grade 11), Edith Laura Thompson (grades 5-6)
1946-1947
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 3-4), Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grades 7-8), Donald Fletcher Campbell (grades 9-10), Mary Isabelle Emmond (grades 1-2), Margaret Alice MacInnes (grade 11), James Edwin Scarrow (grade 12), Edith Laura Thompson (grades 5-6)
1947-1948
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 3-4), Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grades 7-8), James Hugh Cameron (grade 12), John Douglas MacFarlane (grade 11), Dorothy Helen Primmer (grades 9-10), Betty Jane Smith (grade 1), Edith Laura Thompson (grades 5-6), Anne Ford Unsworth (grade 2)
1948-1949
Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grades 7-8), James Hugh Cameron (grade 12), Hannah Greene (grades 3-4), Dorothy Helen Primmer MacFarlane (grades 9-10), John Douglas MacFarlane (grade 11), Florence Turner MacPhail (grade 1), Lenore Rowe (grades 5-6), Anne Ford Unsworth (grade 2)
1949-1950
Virginia Dorothy Beatty (grades 9-10), James Hugh Cameron (grade 12), James Hardy (grade 11), Ethel Irene Irvine (grades 5-6), Enid Levine Lawrence (grades 3-4), Wilma Agnes Stocks (grades 7-8), Anne Ford Unsworth (grade 2), Edna Mereb Warner (grade 1)
1950-1951
James Hugh Cameron (grade 12), Stanley Kazmere Futch (grades 9-10, January-June), James Hardy (grade 11), Rena Meffen (grades 5-6, August-December), Rose C. Polka (grades 3-4), John A. Smolleck (grades 7-8), Lionel E. Thompson (grades 9-10, August-December), Anne Ford Unsworth (grade 2), Edna Mereb Warner (grade 1), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 5-6, January-June)
1951-1952
Phyllis J. Bond (grades 9-10), Audrey Geraldine Faris (grades 1-2), Stanley Kazmere Futch (grade 11), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 4), Harry Ladobruk (grades 7-8), Carl Leo “Karl” Pokrant (grade 12), Anne Ford Unsworth (grade 3), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 5-6)
1952-1953
Lyle Harvey Gregory (grades 9-10), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 4), Harry Ladobruk (grades 7-8), R. McDonald (grade 11, August-October), Carl Leo “Karl” Pokrant (grade 12), Peter Raymond Porter-Smith (grade 11, October-June), Nadia Sophie Stechkewich (grade 1, August-December), Anne Ford Unsworth (grades 2-3), Edna Mereb Warner (grade 1, January-June), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 5-6)
1953-1954
Patricia Anne Frank (grade 2), Lyle Harvey Gregory (grades 9-10, August-December; grade 10, January-June), Chester MacMillan Fraser (grades 11-12), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 5), Harry Ladobruk (grades 7-8), Alice Sydor (grade 1), Anne Ford Unsworth (grades 3-4), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grade 6), Raymon Ralph Zeleck (grade 12, Auugst-January; grade 9, January-June)
1954-1955
Patricia Anne Frank (grade 2), Lyle Harvey Gregory (grade 10), Chester MacMillan Fraser (grades 11-12), Bryant Moloy Hasker (grade 9), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grades 4-5), Harry Ladobruk (grades 7-8), Alice Sydor (grade 1), Anne Ford Unsworth (grade 3), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 5-6)
1955-1956
Solrun Christiansen (grades 6-7), Chester MacMillan Fraser (grades 11-12), Lyle Harvey Gregory (grade 10), Bryant Moloy Hasker (grade 9), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grades 3-4), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Heather Marietta Macalpine (grade 1), Anne Ford Unsworth (grades 2-3), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 5-6)
1956-1957
Heather Marietta Macalpine Anderson (grade 1), Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grade 10, January-June), Grace Olive Bloxham (grade 9, August-December), Solrun Christiansen (grades 6-7), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grades 3-4), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), John H. Martens (grade 9), Emma Massicotte (grade 10, August-December), Martha Alice Root (grade 9, January-June), Donald William Campbell Rowan (grades 11-12), Anne Ford Unsworth (grades 2-3), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 5-6)
1957-1958
Heather Marietta Macalpine Anderson (grade 1), Florence Isabel Chambers (grades 6-7), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grades 3-4), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Richard Sherwood Lanham (grades 11-12), John H. Martens (grade 10), Odon L. Ostronski (grade 9), Anne Ford Unsworth (grades 2-3), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 5-6)
1958-1959
Heather Marietta Macalpine Anderson (grades 1-2, September-February), Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 1-2, March-June), Raymond Labossiere (grade 10), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grades 3-4), Harry Ladobruk (grades 7-8), Richard Sherwood Lanham (grade 9), Florida M. Martel (grades 2-3), John H. Martens (grades 11-12), Elmer Penner (grades 6-7), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 5-6)
1959-1960
Heather Marietta Macalpine Anderson (grades 1-2), Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 2-3), R. Doern (grade 11, January-June), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grades 3-4), Harry Ladobruk (grades 7-8), John H. Martens (grades 11-12, August-December; grade 12, January-June), Garda Todd (grade 10), Shirley Marian Strand (grade 9), Elmer Penner (grades 6-7), Phyllis Ruth Wedge (grades 4-5)
Period
Principal
1960-1961
Eugene P. Van Der Hoeven
1961-1965
James Francis Blewett
1965
John Macgregor Wilkie (1904-1991)
1966
Jean Stuart Williamson (c1920-2015)
1966-1972
Peter Yarmie (1933-1988)
Period
Teachers
1960-1961
James Francis Blewett (grade 11), Shirley Marian Strand (grade 9), Garda Todd (grade 10), Eugene P. Van Der Hoeven (grade 12)
1961-1962
James Francis Blewett (grade 9), Roy Frederic Embley (grade 10), Glen John Loveridge (grade 11), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 12)
1962-1963
James Francis Blewett (grade 9), Glen John Loveridge (grade 11), Robert Atkinson Rodgers (grade 10), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 12)
1963-1964
James Francis Blewett (grade 12), Glen John Loveridge (grade 11), Robert Atkinson Rodgers (grade 9), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 10)
1964-1965
James Francis Blewett (grade 12), Abidh Hosein (grade 10), John Nicholas Whitmore (grade 9), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 11)
1965-1966
John Walter Enns (grade 9), Leslie Allan Persicke (grade 10), Werner Heinz Seidel (grade 12, January-June), John Macgregor Wilkie (grade 12, September-December), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 11)
1966-1967
Beverley William Berrington (grade 10), Earl Tomlinson Enns (grade 11), John Walter Enns (grade 9), Gabriel Jean Girard (grade 11, September-May), George Gushuliak (grade 10), Albert Sigurd Helgason (grade 9), David Alexander “Dave” Kirkpatrick (grade 12), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 11, June), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 12)
1967-1968
Beverley William Berrington (no grade), Robert Russell Buss (grade 11), Earl Tomlinson Enns (no grade), John Walter Enns (grade 9), Isobel Ferguson Broadfoot Forrest (no grade), Christine Renate Gruzinskis (grade 9), George Gushuliak (grade 10), Albert Sigurd Helgason (grade 9), Agnes Hnatiw (grade 9), David Alexander “Dave” Kirkpatrick (grade 12), Thor M. Sigurdson (grade 11), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 12)
1968-1969
Beverley William Berrington (no grade), Edwin Shaw Clawson (grade 9), Earl Tomlinson Enns (grade 11), George Gushuliak (guidance counsellor), Christine Renate Gruzinskis Hachdanz (grade 11), Albert Sigurd Helgason (grade 10), David Alexander “Dave” Kirkpatrick (grade 12), Norman Milton Mayer (grade 12), David Markle “Dave” McCallum (grade 10), Leonard Alvin Schultz (grade 9), Herman Waldo Thiessen (grade 10), Thor M. Sigurdson (grade 12), D. Edward Thom (no grade), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 10), Sandra Jane Wishnowski (grade 11)
1969-1970
Beverley William Berrington (grade 9), Earl Tomlinson Enns (grade 12), George Gushuliak (guidance counsellor), Christine Renate Gruzinskis Hachdanz (grade 10), Gregory Mike Kibsey (grade 11), Leonard Alvin Schultz (grade 9), Thor M. Sigurdson (grade 12), Ray L. Sitter (grade 11), Herman Waldo Thiessen (grade 9), D. Edward Thom (no grade), Valorie Coreen Thom (no grade), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 10), Sandra Jane Wishnowski (grade 11)
1970-1971
Beverley William Berrington (grade 9), Earl Tomlinson Enns (no grade), George Gushuliak (guidance counsellor), Christine Renate Gruzinskis Hachdanz (grade 11), Sandra Jane Wishnowski Johnston (grade 9), Phillip Odin Anton Lysager (grade 11), David Markle “Dave” McCallum (grade 10), Thor M. Sigurdson (grade 12), Ray L. Sitter (grade 12), D. Edward Thom (no grade), Valorie Coreen Thom (no grade), Jean Stuart Williamson (grade 10)
1971-1972
Beverley William Berrington (grade 9), Earl Tomlinson Enns (no grade), George Gushuliak (guidance counsellor), Sandra Jane Wishnowski Johnston (grade 9), Mark Kovalchuk (grade 11), Rose LeBas (grade 9), Phillip Odin Anton Lysager (grade 11), David Markle “Dave” McCallum (grade 10), Thor M. Sigurdson (grade 12), Ray L. Sitter (grade 12), Herman Waldo Thiessen (no grade), D. Edward Thom (no grade), Valorie Coreen Thom (no grade)
Period
Principal
1960-1972
Harry Ladobruk (1923-2000)
Period
Teachers
1960-1961
Heather Marietta Macalpine Anderson (grades 1-2), Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 2-3), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grades 3-4), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Elmer Penner (grades 6-7), Ethel Irene Treichel (grades 4-5)
1961-1962
Heather Marietta Macalpine Anderson (grade 1), Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grade 3), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 4), Harry Ladobruk (grades 7-8), Elmer Penner (grades 6-7), Lillian Schultz (grade 2), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 5)
1962-1963
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grade 3), Menno Isaac (grades 6-7), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 4), Harry Ladobruk (grades 7-8), Lillian Schultz (grade 2), Patricia Violet “Pat” Taggart (grade 1), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 5)
1963-1964
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 3-4), Menno Isaac (grade 7), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grades 4-5), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Eleanor Francis Recknell (grade 1), Lillian Schultz (grades 2-3), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 6)
1964-1965
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 2-3), Elisson Winfield Braemer (grades 4-5), Menno Isaac (grades 6-7), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Eleanor Francis Recknell (grades 1-2), Ethel Irene Treichel (grades 5-6)
1965-1966
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 3-4), Merle Elizabeth Bonar (grades 4-5), Alfreda Rosalind Irvine (grade 6, September-October), Menno Isaac (grades 6-7, September; grade 7, September-June), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Eleanor Francis Recknell (grade 1), Dianne Evelyn Romanik (grades 2-3), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 6, November-June)
1966-1967
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grades 3-4), Merle Elizabeth Bonar (grades 4-5), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Alexandra Irene Gnazdowsky “Sandra” Schultz (grade 3), Grayce Irene Seward (grade 2), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 6), Leslie Inga Watts (grade 1), Sheila Lynne Whyte (grade 7)
1967-1968
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grade 4), Merle Elizabeth Bonar (grade 5), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 7), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Lenora B. Schewe (grade 1), Alexandra Irene Gnazdowsky “Sandra” Schultz (grade 3), Grayce Irene Seward (grade 2), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 6)
1968-1969
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grade 4), Merle Elizabeth Bonar (grade 5), Isobel Ferguson Broadfoot Forrest (no grade, half time), Margaret Myrtle Kirkpatrick (grades 1-2), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 7), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Bernice Elaine Nickel (grade 2), Alexandra Irene Gnazdowsky “Sandra” Schultz (grade 3), Grayce Irene Seward (grade 2), Janet Steinert (grades 3-4), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 6)
1969-1970
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grade 4), Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grade 6), Isobel Ferguson Broadfoot Forrest (no grade, half time), Arleigh Elaine Kalinowski (grade 1), Margaret Myrtle Kirkpatrick (grades 1-2), Betty Eleanor Davidson Ladobruk (grade 7), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Margaret Lee McMillan (grade 5), Alexandra Irene Gnazdowsky “Sandra” Schultz (grade 3), Janet Steinert (grades 3-4), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 2)
1970-1971
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grade 4), Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grade 6), Merle Elizabeth Bonar Enns (grade 5), Arleigh Elaine Kalinowski (grade 1), Margaret Myrtle Kirkpatrick (grades 1-2, special education), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Linda Diane Lysager (no grade), Alexandra Irene Gnazdowsky “Sandra” Schultz (grade 3), Leonard Alvin Schultz (grade 7), Janet Steinert (grades 3-4, special education), Herman Waldo Thiessen (no grade), Ethel Irene Treichel (grade 2)
1971-1972
Edna Marie Wilton Ashby (grade 4), Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grade 6), Jeanne Marie Beauloin (grade 2), Merle Elizabeth Bonar Enns (grade 5), Arleigh Elaine Kalinowski (grade 1), Margaret Myrtle Kirkpatrick (grades 1-2, special education), Harry Ladobruk (grade 8), Linda Diane Lysager (no grade), Alexandra Irene Gnazdowsky “Sandra” Schultz (grade 3), Leonard Alvin Schultz (grade 7), Janet Steinert (grades 3-4, special education)
Period
Principal
1972-1981
Harry Ladobruk (1923-2000)
Period
Teachers
1972-1973
Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grade 6), Jeanne Marie Beauloin (grade 2), Carol Anne Bially (grade 3), Bruce G. Clarke (grade 7), Merle Elizabeth Bonar Enns (grade 4), Joan Catherine Kauk (grade 1), Harry Ladobruk (kindergarten), Lorraine Jeanne-Marie Rey (grade 5), Otto Rosner (grade 8), Janet Steinert (grades 1-4, special education)
1973-1974
Ada Marjorie Balderstone, ?
1974-1975
Ada Marjorie Balderstone, ?
1975-1976
Ada Marjorie Balderstone, ?
1976-1977
Ada Marjorie Balderstone, ?
1977-1978
Ada Marjorie Balderstone, ?
1978-1979
Ada Marjorie Balderstone, ?
1979-1980
Ada Marjorie Balderstone, ?
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 GoldsboroughSite 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)
1881 Canada census, Library and Archives Canada.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #17 School District of Emerson, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #30 School District of Emerson, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Lakeside School District No. 225, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Orders-In-Council (EC 0003B), Order-in-Council No. 34234 & 34618, GR1530, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Emerson School District No. 27 - Daily Registers, GR2088, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Emerson School District No. 2365 - Daily Registers, GR2088, Archives of Manitoba.
Marriage registrations [Edith Mable Bickle and Justin Edwin Porter], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Official Gazette announcements,” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 16 August 1875, page 3.
“Emerson,” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 14 January 1876, page 10.
“City and Provincial [The trustees of the Emerson School ...],” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 25 July 1879, page 1.
“Local and International,“ Emerson International, 4 September 1879, page 5.
“Notice to builders,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 4 June 1880, page 1.
“Union is strength,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 23 May 1883, page 8.
“City and country [Mr. J. C. Saul ...],” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 8 July 1890, page 8.
“City and country [Miss McLeod ...],” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 21 September 1891, page 8.
“City and country [A meeting of the people of West Lynne...],” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 21 May 1892, page 6.
“Local news items,” Emerson Journal, 25 August 1905, page 8.
“Emerson School burned,” Emerson Journal, 9 February 1906, page 1.
“Tenders,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 April 1906, page 10.
“School contract let,” Emerson Journal, 4 May 1906, page 1.
“City and general [Misses Smith and Emmond have resigned ...],” Manitoba Free Press, 10 December 1906, page 18.
“Emerson, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, March 1912, Archives of Manitoba.
“Farewell to teachers,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 June 1940, page 8.
History of Emerson: featuring historical sketches of surrounding districts, Emerson Journal, 1950. [Manitoba Legislative Library F 5649 .E54 His].
“Tender notice - Emerson Consolidated School District,” Winnipeg Tribune, 3 July 1959, page 31.
Schools in Manitoba - Volume 2, Emerson School - File 170A, Local Government Boundaries Commission, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
Schools in Manitoba - Volume 2, Emerson Collegiate - File 170B, Local Government Boundaries Commission, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
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.
“Emerson,” Steinbach Carillon, 9 July 1980, page 3C.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 August 2024
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