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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.
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)
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.
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, 2023-0067Emerson 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)
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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