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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
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
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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