Historic Sites of Manitoba: Eriksdale School No. 1571 (Eriksdale, Municipality of West Interlake)

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The Eriksdale School District was organized in August 1911 and it operated a school in Eriksdale in what is now the Municipality of West Interlake. The original built was replaced in 1917 and, in 1929, a third classroom for high school students was added to the existing two rooms. In 1958, a new six-classroom building replaced the old structure, which was dismantled with the lumber used to construct a teacherage.

The Eriksdale Collegiate was built in 1961 and the six-room building was used for elementary classes. An addition was made to the collegiate in March 1976.

The school became part of the Lakeshore School Division in 1967.

Principals

Period

Principal

1923-1924

Emma Embree

1924-1925

George Patrick Stevens (c1888-1988)

1925-1926

R. F. Hughes

1926-1927

Anne Norrington

1927-1931

Mina Russell

1931-1932

Sarah Ann Sproat (1885-1976)

1932-1933

R. J. Staples

1933-1934

Raymond Neuman

1934-1938

Archibald James McClacherty “Archie” Thom (1907-2000)

1938-1939

John Elwin Laird (1876-1950)

1939-1940

Nicholas Frederick Kasian (1913-1996)

1940-1942

Mary Scobie Smith Vickers Cook (1914-2014)

1942-1944

A. Pamela Hardisty

1944-1945

Marian E. Costin

1946-1947

Minnie Karasiewich (1914-2006)

1947-1948

Benny Zenon Orlins (?-1996)

1948-1951

Michael P. Lysack (?-1989)

1951-1952

Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)

1952-1956

Michael Romanuik

1956-1958

A. H. Sveistrup

1958-1959

R. Friesen

1959-1960

A. L. Petkau

1960-1967

A. H. Sveistrup

1967-1970

Garry Henry Doyle (1934-2014)

1970-1973

E. Bent

Teachers

Among the other teachers at Eriksdale School were Katherine Weber, D. Ruth Matheson, Earl D. McKellar, Emma Sigurdson (1930s), Margaret Dorothy Florence Bottrell, Hildur Emily Sandberg, Phyllis Lamb (1963-1964), Emma Mills (1964-1965), and Benno Richard Klaassen (c1974).

Photos & Coordinates

Eriksdale School

Eriksdale School (no date) by J. H. Plewes
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 142.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.86393, W98.10241
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

Eriksdale East topographic map, 62J/16 East, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].

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.

Beyond Beginnings by Eriksdale Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee, 1996, pages 63-64.

Obituary [Margaret Dorothy Florence Bottrell], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 April 2019.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 24 December 2023

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