The Iroquois School District was formed on 16 June 1885 and a log structure was erected at SE10-15-16 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Rosedale. It was eventually replaced by a frame building at NE10-15-16W which, in turn, was replaced in 1950. The district was dissolved in January 1968 and joined the Beautiful Plains School Division. The schoolhouse was sold later that year and moved to Russell.
Among the teachers of Iroquois School were James Caulder (1885), Rilla Lang (1897), Marion Lamont (1903), Francis Armstrong (1907), Minnie Connell (1908), Miss Shuttleworth (1909), R. G. Little (1911), Olive Hall (1911), Esther Moulson (1914), G. L. Stuart (1914), Margaret Leckie (1915-1916), Lillian Henderson (1917-1918), Jessie Blunt (1918-1920), Annie Sage (1920), Francis Girling (1921), Mary Thomson (1922), B. Robinson (1922-1923), E. M. Stewart (1922-1923), Mary Thomson (1923), Wilma Fisher (1924), Alice Nicholson (1924-1927), Leola Thomson (1927-1928), Lena MacKenzie (1928-1929), Marguerite McConaghy (1929-1930), Alice Roblin (1930-1931), Zoa McIntosh (1931-1934), Edith Kingdon (1934-1935), Muriel Grover (1935-1936), Claire Craig (1936-1938), Mary Campbell (1938-1940), D. E. McLaughlin (1940-1942), Shirley Campbell (1942-1943), Lorna Campbell (1943-1944), Muriel Dykeman (1944-1945), Shirley Campbell (1945-1947), Lorraine Channon (1947-1948), Koreen Mutch (1948-1949), Phyllis Kerr (1949-1950), Mrs. Thelma Wilkinson (1950-1953), Margaret Lindsay (1953-1954), Alice Kolesar (1954-1956), Audrey Kerkowitch (1956-1958), Mrs. Olive Campbell (1958-1963), Mrs. Mildred Kilburn (1963-1964), Mrs. Edra Hill (1964-1965), and Mrs. Beth MacDonald (1965-1966).
Iroquois School (built 1906) and horse barn (no date)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 18.
Iroquois School commemorative monument (August 2011)
Source: Allan Drysdale
Iroquois School commemorative monument with its stone plaque missing (June 2018)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.27078, W99.58480
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Rosedale Remembers, 1884-1984 by Rosedale Centennial Book Committee, 1984, pages 150-156.
This page was prepared by Allan Drysdale and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 February 2021
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