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The Justice Consolidated School District, centred in the village of Justice in the Rural Municipality of Elton, became one of the first participants in the consolidation movement of the early 20th century. It brought students from several surrounding rural schools, including Aikenside School No. 157, Nelles School No. 696, and Young School No. 352, to a new building (erected in 1912 on a design by Winnipeg architect William Wallace Blair) to one central location. Through the years, as other rural schools closed, it drew students from Campbell School No. 186, Elton School No. 131, Gourlay School No. 695, Matheson School No. 1062, and Orange Hall School No. 1069. Justice School closed in June 1967 and its area became part of the Elton Municipal School District No. 2360.
Period
Principal
1923-1924
Henrietta Beveridge Herkes (1899-1988)
1924-1926
Mary Marguerite Rodger “Marge” Andrews (1901-1955)
1926-1927
Weston Sweet (1899-1994)
1927-1929
Myrtle Christina Evans Witherspoon (1906-1998)
1929-1930
Willa Griggs
1930-1931
Margaret E. Wheaton
1931-1933
Marie Evans
1933-1934
Helen McLennan
1934-1936
James Edwin Scarrow (1902-1982)
1936-1937
Monica Anderson
1937-1938
Charlotte Finlay
1938-1939
John Archibald “Archie” Carmichael (1916-2001)
1939-1940
Erick Bjarnson
1940-1941
Hugh Arthur Johnson (1910-1967)
1941-1942
Doreen Handel
1942-1943
Ann Belcher
1943-1945
Jonathan Hughes Arnett (1879-1953)
1945-1946
Robert B. Connor
1946-1948
Dorothy Ethelwyn [Ethelwin] Frost Cox (1922-2023)
1948-1949
Marion Terry
1949-1951
Aleck James “Alex” Robson
1951
Sam Sigurdson
1952
Dorothy Ethelwyn [Ethelwin] Frost Cox (1922-2023)
1952-1957
Margaret Amelia Creighton (1911-1979)
1957-1958
Stanley A. Livingston
1958-1960
Allan Harford Badgley
1960-1961
Margaret Amelia Creighton (1911-1979)
Among the early teachers of Justice School were Agnes Davidson (1913), Evelyn Pentland (1913-1914), Annie Andrews (1913-1915), Nellie Holden (1914-1916), B. McNevin (1915-1916), J. Duilan (1916-1917), Annie Falconer (1916-1919), Alice Bisset (1917-1918), Gladys Christie (1918-1919), Jean Brown (1919-1920), Gladys Pearson (1919-1920), W. I. Stewart (1919-1921), D. McDonald (1919-1920), Mildred Thornton (1920-1923), Olive Falconer (1921-1922), W. Logan (1922-1923), Marjory Davis (1922-1923), R. Slauson (1922-1923), A. Emerson (1923-1924), Margaret Elliott (1923-1925, 1926-1927), Marjorie Hogarth (1925-1926), Dianne Lucow (1927-1928), Ruby Magee (1928-1929), Kay Kellar (1929-1930), Helen McLennan (1930-1933), Doris Moore (1933-1934), Margaret Sutherland (1934-1935), Ruby Black (1934-1935), Edna Elder (1935-1937), Helen Brownell (1937-1940), Verna Hughes (1940-1941), Gwen Waring (1941-1942), Jean Justice (1942-1943), Phyllis Hill (1943-1945), and Merle Westbrook (1945-1946).
Period
Teachers
1946-1947
Donna Grace Douglas (grades 1-8), Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost (grades 9-11)
1947-1948
Donna Grace Douglas (grades 1-7), Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost (grades 9-11)
1948-1949
Marion Terry (grades 8-11), Eileen May Wray (grades 1-6)
1949-1950
Muriel Isabel Hunter (grades 1-6), Aleck James Robson (grades 7-11)
1950-1951
Muriel Isabel Hunter (grades 1-6), Aleck James “Alex” Robson (grades 7-11)
1951-1952
Florence Jessie Chambers (grades 1-6), Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost Cox (grades 7-11, January-June), Sam Sigurdson (grades 7-11, August-December)
1952-1953
Florence Jessie Chambers (grades 1-6), Margaret Amelia Creighton (grades 7-11)
1953-1954
Margaret Amelia Creighton (senior grades), Elaine Kolke (junior grades)
1954-1955
Margaret Amelia Creighton (senior grades), Elaine Kolke (junior grades)
1955-1956
Margaret Amelia Creighton (senior grades), Elaine Kolke (junior grades)
1956-1957
Hazel Adams (junior grades), Margaret Amelia Creighton (senior grades)
1957-1958
Janie Crossen (junior grades), Stanley A. Livingston (senior grades)
1958-1959
Allan Harford Badgley (grades 10-11), Marion Elsie Badgley (grades 5-9), Elaine Claire Bollman (grades 1-4)
1959-1960
Allan Harford Badgley (grades 9-10), Elaine Claire Bollman (grades 1-6), Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost Cox (grades 11-12), ? (grades 7-8)
1960-1961
Elaine Claire Bollman (grades 1-6), A. W. Parils (grades ?), Margaret Amelia Creighton (grades ?)
Among the other teachers of Justice School were Adelaide Mary Feil (1961-1963, grades 1-8), Jean Witter (1962-1967), Lorna Richardson (1963-1964), Glenda Holmes (1964-1965), and Carol Armstrong (1965-1967).
The original Justice School (circa 1911)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Department of Education photograph album (A 0278),
GR2664, G 11005, page 68.
Justice School (no date) by A. J. Hatcher
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A 0233, C131-1, page 110.
A homecoming celebration was held when the school closed (July 1967)
Source: Homesteaders and Homemakers: A History of Elton Municipality in its First Century by Elton Historical Committee, 1973. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.E48 Hom]
The former Justice School building (June 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Justice School building and bell (June 2020)
Source: Rose Kuzina
The former Justice School building (June 2020)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.99748, W99.79699
denoted by symbol on the map above
Tenders, Manitoba Free Press, 5 August 1911, page 3.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Homesteaders and Homemakers: A History of Elton Municipality in its First Century by Elton Historical Committee, 1973. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.E48 Hom]
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 25 May 2024
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