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Holland Consolidated School, in the village of Holland in the Rural Municipality of Victoria, was formed in November 1905 from the consolidation of Holland School No. 390 (established at Holland in 1885) and Dawson School No. 117 (established at NW36-24-6W in 1881). It was one of the first two school consolidations in Manitoba, the other being at Virden.
An eight-classroom high school, designed by local architect Andrew Maxwell, was built by contractor R. N. Wyatt at a site facing Stewart Avenue in late 1913, at a cost of $25,500. It was opened in December at a formal ceremony attended by the Minister of Education G. R. Coldwell, Education Chief Clerk Robert Fletcher, School Inspector S. E. Lang, Winnipeg school architect J. B. Mitchell, MLA George Steel, local school board chair W. R. Ross, and former teachers R. J. Mills and A. A. Herriot.
A war memorial on the grounds in front of the school is still present at the site, but the school building is gone.
Period
Principal
1903-1904
Wilfred John Fee (1881-1933)
1904-1905
James H. Marsh (?-?)
1905-1911
Archibald Adam Herriot (1881-1956)
1911-1912
?
1912-1913
Duncan Alexander Baxter (1872-1964)
1913-1918
A. D. Johnson
1918-1920
Luella Gertrude Lick Smith (1896-1963)
1920-1921
John Francis Goodwin (1885-1975)
1921-1922
W. White
1922-1925
John Neville Clark
1925-1931
Cecil James Hutchings (1897-1983)
1931-1932
John Leslie “Jack” Morrow (1896-1989)
1932-1934
John Bruce Day (1902-1955)
1934-1940
John Hamilton Menzies (1904-1998)
1940-1941
Eldon M. Elliott
1941-1946
Frederick Adam Hodgkinson (1912-2004)
1946-1948
Frederick James Hall (1892-1977)
1948-1955
James Austin Delgaty (1894-1974)
1955-1958
Joseph Albert Mayers (1909-1980)
1958-1960
John R. Lord
1960-1966
Allan H. Badgley
Period
Vice-Principal
1922-1924
Hazel Arretta Vandecar (1897-1990)
1924-1925
Mary Ethel Simms (c1895-1947)
School Year
Teachers
1922-1923
John Neville Clark (grade 11), Louise Hardy (grades 5-6, April-June), Blanche M. Johnston (grades 3-4), Jennet E. Slater (grades 7-8), Marjorie M. Shortreed (grades 1-2), Hazel Arretta Vandecar (grades 9-10), Mildred Wood (grades 5-6, September-March)
1923-1924
John Neville Clark (grade 11), Blanche M. Johnston (grades 3-4), Margaret B. Rixon (grades 5-6), Marjorie M. Shortreed (grades 1-2), Jennet E. Slater (grades 7-8), Hazel Arretta Vandecar (grades 9-10)
1924-1925
Margaret Carmichael (grades 7-8), Blanche Alberta Christilaw (grades 3-4, daughter of John Albert Christilaw), John Neville Clark (grade 11), Irene I. Douglas (grades 5-6), M. E. Flora (grades 1-3), Mary Ethel Simms (grades 9-10)
Among the other teachers of Holland School were Arthur James Manning, Robert John Mills, Archibald Adam Herriot, Ida E. Brown Sanderson (1947-1951), Eleanor Ada Fraser Paxton, and Stanley Corbett “Stan” Henderson.
Holland School (circa 1906)
Source: Education Department Report, 1906, Manitoba Legislative Library.Postcard view of Holland School (circa 1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company
Source: Rob McInnes, MN0345.Postcard view of Holland School (no date)
Source: Rob McInnes, MN0081.Postcard view of Holland High School, built in late 1913 (no date) by C. I. Meyers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 75.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.59591, W98.88007
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Holland School / Empire School No. 216 / Murchison Church Plaque (RM of Minto-Odanah)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Tenders for building,” Manitoba Free Press, 10 May 1913, page 2.
“Holland school formally opened,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 December 1913, page 7.
“Holland, Man., farm yields 46 bu. to acre,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 September 1922, page 2.
“Holland, Man”, Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, Archives of Manitoba.
Obituary [Eleanor Ada Paxton], Winnipeg Free Press, 15 October 1998, page 17.
Manitoba Permit Teachers of World War II, compiled by Louisa Loeb, Winnipeg: Hyperion Press Ltd., 2007.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Rob McInnes for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 July 2024
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