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Maple Leaf School No. 83 was formed in February 1881 by the council of the Rural Municipality of South Dufferin. The first school building, made of logs hauled by local farmers, was erected on NW31-2-5 west of the Principal Meridian. It opened in June 1881. By 1886, a two-storey school was moved by Stuart Cott and James Nelson from Nelson and situated on Sixth Street in Morden. It was renovated into a two-room schoolhouse and used until its closure in 1912.
The present site was purchased in 1893 and a six-room stone school was constructed in 1893-1984 on a design by architect Hugh McCowan, opening in 1894. It was both replaced and demolished in 1953.
The present Maple Leaf School was designed by Winnipeg architect Frank Robert Evans and built in 1928 at a cost of about $50,000. An addition to it was constructed in 1980. A new school for elementary and collegiate grades was built in 1953, and a separate Morden Collegiate Institute in 1965. A monument in front of the school was unveiled on 6 July 1982 in commemoration of community leaders who have maintained Maple Leaf School through the years. The building is a municipally designated historic site (1988).
Period
Principal
1886-1889
Andrew Alexander Ogilvie (c1862-1892)
1890-1891
Daniel Willis McKerchar (1864-1937)
1892
Farquhar McRae (1840-1913)
1893-1900
William Joseph Cram (1861-1940)
1900-1901
John Lawrence Veale (1868-1903)
1901-1902
Thomas Edgar Argue (1869-1927)
1902-1911
Theophilus Grant Finn (1865-1934)
1911-1912
?
1912-1926
William Joseph Cram (1861-1940)
1926-1930
Arthur Victor Pigott (1900-1987)
1930-1949
Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (1896-1984)
1949-1956
Alexander John Wilson (1913-1991)
1956-1959
?
Period
Principal
1957-1959
Marjorie Kathleen May Neelin
1959-1963
Donald Melvin Muir (1924-1997)
After 1963
Period
Principal
1960-1962
Henry Friesen
Period
Principal
1960-1964
Jacob “Jack” Isaak (1921-2004)
Period
Teachers
1881
Colin York Campbell McCorquodale (all grades)
1882
Colin York Campbell McCorquodale (all grades)
1883
Grace Conner (all grades, spring), Frank Collins (all grades, fall)
1884
?
1885
?
1886
Miss Bell Coulter (primary grades), David James Goggin (Normal School, fall term, in the J. H. Smith Block), Andrew Alexander Ogilvie (senior grades)
1887
Miss Kerr (later Mrs. D. McKay), Annie McIntyre (wife of Stuart Scott), Andrew Alexander Ogilvie (senior grades)
1888
Andrew Alexander Ogilvie (senior grades), ? (other grades)
1889
Andrew Alexander Ogilvie (senior grades), ? (other grades)
1890
Daniel Willis McKerchar (senior grades), ? (other grades)
1891
Daniel Willis McKerchar (senior grades), ? (other grades)
1892
Farquhar McRae (senior grades), Miss M. Gordon, Ida Anna Mitchell (wife of Matthew Richardson)
1893
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), ? (other grades)
1894
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), ? (other grades)
1895
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), ? (other grades)
1896
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), Maude Davidson (? grades), ? (other grades)
1897
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), Maude Davidson (? grades), Tena McLean (? grades)
1898
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), Tena McLean (? grades)
1899
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), Tena McLean (? grades)
1900
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), Tena McLean (? grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1901
Kathleen A. Pilkington (primary grades), Mr. McTavish (? grades), ? (other grades)
1902
Thomas Edgar Argue (senior grades), Beatrice Maude Bradshaw (? grades), Kathleen A. Pilkington (primary grades), Lily Hobkirk (? grades), Thompson Ballagh (? grades), Evelyn Fraser (? grades), Ina Duncan (? grades), Helen Stewart (? grades)
1903
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1904
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1905
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1906
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1907
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1908
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1909
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1910
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1911
Theophilus Grant Finn (senior grades), Una Grant (grades 6-7, fall) M. M. Irwin (grades 6-7, spring), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1912
(spring only) Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1912-1913
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1913-1914
William Joseph Cram (senior grades), Katherine Ann Pilkington (primary grades), ? (other grades)
1914-1915
R. Maude M. Cole (grades 9-11), William Joseph Cram (grade 8), Eva Freeborn (grades 1-2), E. M. Griffis (grade 3), Helen Hayden (grade 3), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grade 1), Myra A. Rutherford (grade 4), Mary H. Tupling (grade 9), Jean H. M. Wilkie (grades 5-6)
1915-1916
R. Maude M. Cole (grades 9 & 11), William Joseph Cram (grades 8 & 11), Eva Freeborn (grades 2-3), Bella Greenlay (grades 5-6, 1916), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grades 1-2), D. [Dell?] A. Robinson (grades 1-2), Myra A. Rutherford (grade 4), Mary H. Tupling (grade 10), Jean H. M. Wilkie (grades 5-6, 1916)
1916-1917
William Joseph Cram (grades 11), Olive E. Crookshanks (grade 8), Eva Freeborn (grade 3), Bella Greenlay (grades 5-6), Virginia Edna Montgomery (grade 10), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grade 1), D. A. Robinson (grade 2), Myra A. Rutherford (grade 4)
1917-1918
William Joseph Cram (grades 9-10, 1917; grade 8, 1918), Olive E. Crookshanks (grade 8, 1917; grades 9-10, 1918), Eva Freeborn (grade 3), Bella Greenlay (grades 5-6), Virginia Edna Montgomery (grade 11), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grades 1-2), Frances M. Porter (grade 2, 1918), D. A. Robinson (grade 2), Myra A. Rutherford (grade 4)
1918-1919
William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Eva Freeborn (grade 3), Bella Greenlay (grade 5), Alma Fay Hannah (grade 2), Irene Bernita Maloney (grade 8), Virginia Edna Montgomery (grade 10), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grade 1), Myra A. Rutherford (grade 4), Jack Milburn Scurfield (grades 6-7)
1919-1920
May Chalmers (grade 2), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Kathleen Minnie Fanell (grades 9-11), Eva Freeborn (grade 3), Elizabeth Florence Hammond (grade 6), Emma Catherine Hammond (grade 2), Lulu Violet Moir (grade 5), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grade 1), Jack Milburn Scurfield (grades 7-8), Edith E. Waddell (grades 3-4)
1920-1921
Edith G. Andrew (grades 2-3, 1920), Margaret Braithwait (grades 1-2, 1920), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Eva Freeborn (grade 4), Elizabeth Florence Hammond (grade 6), Margery Ethel Logan (grade 5), 1921), Marie Norine MacDonald (grades 2-3, 1921), Lulu Violet Moir (grade 5, 1920), Mary Ethel Neilson (grades 1-2, 1921), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grade 1), Edith E. Waddell (grades 7-8), May Walker (grade 9)
1921-1922
William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Violet Gertrude Earle (grade 6), M. Frazer? (grades 9-10), 1922), Eva Freeborn (grade 4), Grace W. Graham (grades 9-10, 1922), Marie Norine MacDonald (grade 3), Ooney Olive MacDonald (grades 7-8), Mary Ethel Neilson (grades 1-2), Lizzie Louise Nicol (grade 5), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grade 1), Maurice Sauger (grades 9-10, 1921)
1922-1923
Lillace G. Calverley (grades 7-8), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Violet Gertrude Earle (grade 3), Eva Freeborn (grade 4), Mary Ethel Neilson (grades 1-2), Lizzie Louise Nicol (grade 5), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grade 1), Alfred William Tristram (grades 9-10), Hazel Harriet Whiles (grades 5-6)
1923-1924
Lillace G. Calverley (grades 7-8), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Isabella Frances Hall Creighton (grades 4-5), Alice Lorene Davis (grades 2-3), Mary Ethel Neilson (grades 1-2), Katherine Ann Pilkington (grade 1), Alfred William Tristram (grades 9-10), Hazel Harriet Whiles (grades 5-6)
1924-1925
Lillace G. Calverley (grades 7-8), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Isabella Frances Hall Creighton (grades 4-5), Alice Lorene Davis (grades 2-3), Bessie M. Shaver (grades 1-2), Alfred William Tristram (grades 9-10), Hazel Harriet Whiles (grades 5-6)
1925-1926
Lillace G. Calverley (grades 7-8, 1925), B. A. Cann (grades 7-8, 1926), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Isabella Frances Hall Creighton (grades 4-5), Alice L. Davis (grade 3), Albert G. Fulford (grade 9), Bessie M. Shaver (grade 2), Alfred William Tristram (grade 9), Hazel Harriet Whiles (grades 5-6)
1926-1927
William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Isabella Frances Hall Creighton (grades 4-5), Alice L. Davis (grades 2-3), J. B. Enns (grade ?), E. E. Finn (grades 2-3, 1926 substitute), Eva Freeborn (grades 3-4), Marjory Ada Houghton (grades 1-2), Delle Matilda Miner (grade 1), Arthur Victor Pigott (grade ?), Isabelle Kennedy Smith (grades 7-8), Alfred William Tristram (grade ?), Hazel Harriet Whiles (grades 5-6)
1927-1928
William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Isabella Frances Hall Creighton (grades 4-5), Marjory Ada Houghton (grade 2), Delle Matilda Miner (grade 1), Eva May Pearson (grades 3-4), Arthur Victor Pigott (grade ?), Isabelle Kennedy Smith (grades 7-8), Joseph Sidney Walkof (night school grades 2-3, 1928), ? (other grades)
1928-1929
William Joseph Cram (grade 9), Margaret Ann Cranston (grade 4), Marjory Ada Houghton (grade 3), Dougalda Owens (grade 9), Arthur Victor Pigott (grade 11), Charlotte Armenah Powell (grade 1), Evelyn May Smith (grade 6), Alfred William Tristram (grade 10), Emma Frances Whrich (grade 2)
1929-1930
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), William Joseph Cram (grade ?), Marjory Ada Houghton (grade 3), Dougalda Owens (grade 5), Arthur Victor Pigott (grade 11), Hazel Viola Parker (grades 7-8), Charlotte Armenah Powell (grade 1), Evelyn May Smith (grade 6), Emma Frances Whrich (grade 2), ? (grades 9-10)
1930-1931
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), Mary Isabelle Chestnut (grade 9), William Joseph Cram (grade 10), Helen J. Hislop (grades 7-8), Marjory Ada Houghton (grade 6), Dougalda Owens (grade 5), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 3), Charlotte Armenah Powell (grade 1), Evelyn May Smith (grade 2), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 11), Emma Frances Whrich (grades 1-3)
1931-1932
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), Mary Isabelle Chestnut (grade 9), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Marion Grace McRuer (grades 7-8), Dougalda Owens (grade 5), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 3), Hazel V. Parker (grades 7-8, 1931), Charlotte Armenah Powell (grade 1, 1931), Lillian Marjorie Shafer (grade 1, 1932), Evelyn May Smith (grade 2), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 10), Emma Frances Whrich (grade 3)
1932-1933
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Ellen Annette Patricia Fraser (grade 5), Blanche McIntyre (grade 9), Marion Grace McRuer (grade 2), Daisy Gwendoline Montgomery Metcalfe (grades 7-8), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 6), Lillian Marjorie Shafer (grade 1), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 10), Emma Frances Whrich (grade 3)
1933-1934
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), William Joseph Cram (grade 11), Ellen Annette Patricia Fraser (grade 5), Marguerite Anne Kilburn (grade 3), Blanche McIntyre (grade 9), Marion Grace McRuer (grade 2), Daisy Gwendoline Montgomery Metcalfe (grade 7), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 6), Lillian Marjorie Shafer (grade 1), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 10)
1934-1935
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), William Joseph Cram (grades 8 & 10), Ellen Annette Patricia Fraser (grade 5), Marguerite Anne Kilburn (grade 3), Blanche McIntyre (grade 9), Marion Grace McRuer (grade 2), Daisy Gwendoline Montgomery Metcalfe (grade 7), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 6), Lillian Marjorie Shafer (grade 1), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11)
1935-1936
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), William Gordon Frazer (grade 9), Muriel Elizabeth Hedden (grade 5), Marguerite Anne Kilburn (grade 3), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Daisy Gwendoline Montgomery Metcalfe (grade 8), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 2), Allin John Pybus (grade 6), John Murdo Ridge (grade 7), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Rhoda Marguerite McKeown Wood (grade 10)
1936-1937
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), Iolene Bernice Forbes (grade 6), William Gordon Frazer (grade 9), Muriel Elizabeth Hedden (grade 5), Marguerite Anne Kilburn (grade 3), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Daisy Gwendoline Montgomery Metcalfe (grade 8), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 2), Allin John Pybus (grade 7), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Rhoda Marguerite McKeown Wood (grade 10)
1937-1938
Iolene Bernice Forbes (grade 6), William Gordon Frazer (grade 9), Muriel Elizabeth Hedden (grade 5), Marguerite Anne Kilburn (grade 3), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Grace McNabb (grade 4), Daisy Gwendoline Montgomery Metcalfe (grade 8), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 2), Clarence Wilfred Pybus (grade 7), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Rhoda Marguerite McKeown Wood (grade 10)
1938-1939
Reginald W. Bundy (grade 7), Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), Iolene Bernice Forbes (grade 3), William Gordon Frazer (grade 9), Muriel Elizabeth Hedden (grade 5), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Daisy Gwendoline Montgomery Metcalfe (grade 8), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 2), James Douglas Taylor (grade 6), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Rhoda Marguerite McKeown Wood (grade 10)
1939-1940
Reginald W. Bundy (grade 7), Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), Eva Marguerite Cram (grade 6), Iolene Bernice Forbes (grade 3), William Gordon Frazer (grade 9), Muriel Elizabeth Hedden (grade 5), Olive Katherine Jack (grade 8, 1940), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Nellie Edna Palmer (grade 2), James Douglas Taylor (grade 8), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), L. M. Wilson (grade 8, 1940 substitute), Rhoda Marguerite McKeown Wood (grade 10)
1940-1941
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), Eva Marguerite Cram (grade 6), William Gordon Frazer (grade 9), Muriel Elizabeth Hedden (grade 5), Olive Katherine Jack (grade 3), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Charles Vincent Madder (grade 7), Isabel Milne (grade 2), Kathleen Ina Rodger (grade 10), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Esme W. White (grade 8)
1941-1942
Jean Ellen Burnett (grade 4), Jean Elizabeth Comba (grade 5, 1941), Eva Marguerite Cram (grade 6), William Gordon Frazer (grade 9), Christine V. Hallgrimson (grade 10), Olive Katherine Jack (grade 3), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Charles Vincent Madder (grade 7), Isabel Milne (grade 2), Margaret F. Moody (grade 8, 1942), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), ? (grade 5, 1942)
1942-1943
Edith Aitken (grade 5), Blanche Reid Edwards Bond (grade 6, 1943), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Isabel Milne (grade 3), Margaret F. Moody (grade 8, 1942), Edna Mae Spiers (grades 1-2), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Florence Julia Webb (grade 4), Bertha L. Wood (grade 8, 1943), Helen Jean Wright (grade 6), Margaret Kathleen Young (grade 10)
1943-1944
Myrtle Bernice Albright (grade 10), Blanche Reid Edwards Bond (grade 6), Olga Drozdowsky (grade 9), Wilhelmina Jonsson (grade 7), Ruth Helen Kerr (grade 2), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Elizabeth Anne McIver (grade 5), Isabel Milne (grade 3), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Florence Julia Webb (grade 4), Bertha L. Wood (grade 8)
1944-1945
Lilian Amelia Boyd (grade 2), Blanche Reid Edwards Bond (grade 6, 1944), Jean Hazel Donovan (grade 10), Wilhelmina Jonsson (grade 7), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Elizabeth Anne McIver (grade 5), Mary Helena McCulloch (grade 6), Ross Alexander McKenzie (grade 9), Mary Isobel Menzies (grade 6, 1945), Isabel Milne (grade 3), Robert Ivarach Scarth (grade 8), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Florence Julia Webb (grade 4)
1945-1946
Jean Hazel Donovan (grade 10), Alma Ruth Kenny (grade 3), Janet Marie Lawson (grade 2), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Mary Helena McCulloch (grade 4), Charles Vincent Madder (grade 7), John George Nawrykow (grade 9), Emma J. E. Sigurdson (grade 6), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Evelyn Norah Urry (grade 5), Joy Arlette Warner (grades 1-2), Bertha L. Wood (grade 8)
1946-1947
Alma Ruth Kenny (grade 3), Freda Wilhelmina Lang (grades 1-2), Janet Marie Lawson (grade 2), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Mary Helena McCulloch (grade 4), Charles Vincent Madder (grade 7), John George Nawrykow (grade 9), Marjorie Kathleen May Neelin (grade 10), Emma J. E. Sigurdson (grade 6), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Alfred William Tristram (grade 11), Evelyn Norah Urry (grade 5), Bertha L. Wood (grade 8)
1947-1948
Lorne Avery Chapple (grade 7), Faith Alberta Elizabeth Hill (grades 1-2), Alma Ruth Kenny (grade 3), Janet Marie Lawson (grade 2), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Mary Helena McCulloch (grade 4), Robert Francis Magee (grade 11, 1947), Marjorie Kathleen May Neelin (grade 10), William McKinlay Rice (grade 9), Emma J. E. Sigurdson (grade 6), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Willa Margaret Thachur (grade 11, 1948), Evelyn Norah Urry (grade 5), Bertha L. Wood (grade 8)
1948-1949
Lionel Lachlan Clench (grade 7), Faith Alberta Elizabeth Hill (grades 1-2), Alma Ruth Kenny (grade 3, 1948), Janet Marie Lawson (grade 2), Mary Helena McCulloch (grade 4), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1), Marjorie Kathleen May Neelin (grade 10), Margaret Jeannette Patterson (grade 8, 1949), Marcel Philippe (grade 9), Frances Alberta Plummer (grade 8, 1949), William McKinlay Rice (grade 11), Emma J. E. Sigurdson (grade 6), Gladys Stevenson (grades 1-2, 1949 substitute), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (grade 12), Bertha L. Wood (grade 8, 1948)
1949-1950
Ila Thelma Cockriell (grades 2-3), Doreen Day (grade 12, 1950), Faith Alberta Elizabeth Hill (grade 1, 1949), Mary Vera Ingram (grade 5), Adelaide Ruth Johnston (grade 3), Marion Blanche Johnston (grade 1, 1950), Martha Hilde Kendall (grade 7), Janet Marie Lawson (grade 2), Mary Helena McCulloch (grade 4), Annie Isabella McFadden (grade 1, 1949), Marjorie Kathleen May Neelin (grade 10), Margaret Jeannette Patterson (grade 8), William McKinlay Rice (grade 11), Emma J. E. Sigurdson (grade 6), Alexander John Wilson (grade 12, 1949)
1950-1951
Collegiate: Mr. Cameron (grade 7), Dr. S. Kossak (French, social studies), Miss C. Massicotte (French, social studies), Miss Neelin (English, social studies), Miss Patterson (grade 8), Mr. Rice (science, bookkeeping), Alexander John Wilson (math, arts)
1951-1952
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1952-1953
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1953-1954
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1954-1955
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1955-1956
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1956-1957
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1957-1958
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1958-1959
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1959-1960
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1960-1961
Virginia Dorothy Andrew (grade 12), Baldwin P. Berg (grades 4-5), Judith Evelyn Buffie (grade 11), Mary Helena Ching (grade 3), Audrey Myrlene Currie (grade 1), Henry Friesen (grade 11), Ellen Jane Cristina Hosea (grade 2), Jacob “Jack” Isaak (grade 6), Jean Margaret Jacques (grade 7), Adelaide Ruth Johnston (grade 3), William Klassen (grade 10), Lynda Katherine Kuhl (grades 2-3), Allen Elwood McCulloch (grade 9), Annie Isabelle McFadden (grade 1), Ella Eileen Martens (grade 1), Peter Nickel (grade 8), Mary Pauls (grade 7), Jacob Peters (grade 5), Nellie Julia Popkes (grade 6), Darlene Margaret Ptosnick (grade 4), Evelyn Esther Reimer (grade 5), John Albert Reimer (grade 8), Reta M. Shore (grade 9), Paul Adalgier Sigurdson (grade 10), Carol Louise Sirett (grade 2), Gladys Lillian Stevenson (grade 4)
1961-1962
Virginia Dorothy Andrew (grade 12), John Harold Ballen (grade 9), Anne Bluhm (grade 2), Virginia Brown (grades 5-6), Mary Helena Ching (grade 3), Audrey Myrlene Currie (grade 1), Henry Friesen (grade 11), Joyce Marjorie Friesen (grade 2), Helen Goertzen (grade 12), Catherine M. Hamilton (grade 11, 1961), Jacob “Jack” Isaak (grade 6), Adelaide Ruth Johnston (grade 3), Lynda Katherine Kuhl (grade 2), Ella Eileen Martens (grade 1), Constance Joan Moreton (grades 3-4), Peter Nickel (grade 8), Mary Pauls (grade 7), Jacob Peters (grade 5), Nellie Julia Popkes (grade 6), Darlene Margaret Ptosnick (grade 4), Marjorie Edith Putt (grade 11), Evelyn Esther Reimer (grade 5), John Albert Reimer (grade 10), John Sawatzky (grade 8), Reta M. Shore (grade 8), Paul Adalgier Sigurdson (grade 10), Gladys Lillian Stevenson (grade 4), Maxwell Ross Webber (grade 7)
1962-1963
Anne Bluhm (grade 2), Vivian Elaine Bunn (grade 5), Mary Helena Ching (grade 3), Lois Ethel Cram (grade 1, 1963), Audrey Myrlene Currie (grade 1), Evelyn Rose Currie (grade 7), Viola Mary Goertzen (grade 1), Jacob “Jack” Isaak (grade 6), Adelaide Ruth Johnston (grade 3, at Beaver School), Margaret Eileen Laing (grades 4-5), Allen Elwood McCulloch (grade 6), Ella Eileen Martens (grade 1), Constance Joan Moreton (grade 2), Paul Najda (grade 7), Peter Nickel (grade 8), Betty Louise Northcott (grade 3), Mary Pauls (grade 7), Jacob Peters (grade 5), Nellie Julia Popkes (grade 6), Darlene Margaret Ptosnick (grade 4), John Sawatzky (grade 8), Gladys Lillian Stevenson (grade 4)
1963-1964
Anne Bluhm (grade 2), Vivian Elaine Bunn (grade 5), Mary Helena Ching (grade 3), Helen Dianne Cooper (grade 8), Lois Ethel Cram (grade 2), Audrey Myrlene Currie (grade 1), Florence Marie Giesbrecht (grade 7), Viola Mary Goertzen (grade 1), Jacob “Jack” Isaak (grade 6), Adelaide Ruth Johnston (grade 3, at Beaver School), Margaret Eileen Laing (grade 6), Allen Elwood McCulloch (grade 7), Karen Lorraine Moffatt (grade 2), Peter Nickel (grade 8), Mary Pauls (grade 7), Adeline Justine Peters (grade 1), Jacob Peters (grade 5), Nellie Julia Popkes (grade 6), Darlene Margaret Ptosnick (grade 4), John Sawatzky (grade 8), Gladys Lillian Stevenson (grade 4), Mary-Ann Wiebe (grade 4)
1964-1965
Mary Helena Ching (grade 3), Helen Diane Cooper (grade 8), Lois Ethel Cram (grade 2), Jean Audrey Cumming (grade 1), Mary Dushenko (grade 2), Florence Marie Dyck (grade 7), Dennis Louis Gebauer (grade 7), Viola Mary Goertzen (grade 1), Judith Charlene Johnson (grade 3), Adelaide Ruth Johnston (grade 3), Ruth Evelyn Klassen (grade 6), Margaret Eileen Laing (grade 5), Karen Lorraine Moffatt (grade 2), Martha Elizabeth Neufeld (grade 7, 1965), Peter Nickel (grade 8), Mary Pauls (grade 7), Adeline Justice Peters (grade 1), Jacob Peters (grade 5), Nellie Julia Popkes (grade 6), John Sawatzky (grade 8), Gladys Lillian Stevenson (grade 4), Doreen Anne Vassart (grade 5), Janice Sharon Walkof (grade 4), Mary-Ann Wiebe (grade 4)
1965-1966
Alice Marie Bourrier (grade 7), Mary Helena Ching (grade 3), Lois Ethel Cram (grade 2), Jean Audrey Cumming (grade 1), Mary Dushenko (grade 2), Wilhelmina Alyce Hiebert (grade 1), Betty Jayne Hoeppner (grade 8), Judith Charlene Johnson (grade 3), Adelaide Ruth Johnston (grade 3), Ruth Evelyn Klassen (grade 6), Margaret Eileen Laing (grade 5), Peter Nickel (grade 8), Mary Pauls (grade 6), Adeline Justice Peters (grade 1), Jacob Peters (grade 5), Nellie Julia Popkes (grade 6), Eleanor Ann Salmond (grade 7), Marilyn Jeannette Salmond (grade 7), John Sawatzky (grade 8), Gladys Lillian Stevenson (grade 4), Doreen Anne Vassart (grade 5), Patricia Yvonne Vassart (grade 2), Barbara Jean Vick (grade 6), Janice Sharon Walkof (grade 4)
25 1966-1967
Anne Bluhn (grade 1), Alice Marie Bourrier (grade 7), Lois Ethel Cram (grade 2), Jean Audrey Cumming (grade 1), Hilda Catherine Dalke (grade 1), Mary Dushenko (grade 2), Anne Froese (grade 2), Gerald John Edward Gebler (grade 8), Karen Georgeen Gebler (grade 5), Valerie Ann Harder (grade 1), Cheryl Edna Johnson (grade 6), Adelaide Ruth Johnston (grade 3), Elvin John Klassen (grade 7), Florie J. Kolodie (grade 1), Margaret Eileen Laing (grade 5), Diane Helen Manning (grade 4), Peter Nickel (grade 8), Jennifer Eileen Penner (grade 2), Jacob Peters (grade 7), Nellie Julia Popkes (grade 6), Barbara Jean Vick Rothenberger (grade 6), John Sawatzky (grade 8), James Andrew Sawchyn (grade 6), Meredith Penny Sawchyn (grade 5), Gladys Lillian Stevenson (grade 4)
1967-1968
Madeline Grace Cochrane (special education), Lois Ethel Cram (grade 2), Jean Audrey Cumming (grade 1), Mary Dushenko (grade 2), Mavis Caroline Dyck (grade 3), Karen Louis Enns (grade 7), Diane Manning Forest (grade 4), Karen Georgeen Gebler (grade 5), Lorette Ann Green (grade 1), Elizabeth Annie Hiebert (grade 1), Elvin John Klassen (grade 7), Margaret Eileen Laing (grade 5), W. Iris Loewen (grade 1), Hugh A. Lumgair (grade 8), Ella Eileen Martens (kindergarten), Agatha Ruth Massey (kindergarten), Dorothy Bernice Morden (grade 8), Mary Pauls (grade 6), Ben Penner (grade 7), Margaret Rose Penner (grade 2), Jacob Peters (grade 7), Nellie Julia Popkes (grade 4), Doreen Anne Rach (grade 3), Gail Lynne H. Rempel (grade 2), Barbara Jean Vick Rothenberger (grade 6), John Sawatzky (grade 8), James Andrew Sawchyn (grade 6), Cheryl Edna Johnson Skubovius (grade 6), Gladys Lillian Stevenson (grade 4)
Among the other teachers of Maple Leaf School were Barbara Marguerite McCord (late 1910s) and Gail Frances Moss Atkins.
Postcard view of Maple Leaf School (circa 1906)
Source: Rob McInnes, MN0035
Postcard view of Maple Leaf School by Morden photographer Sydney E. Prest (circa 1910)
Source: Rob McInnes, MN0607
Maple Leaf School, built in 1894 and demolished in 1953 (date unknown) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 23.
Maple Leaf School (circa 1929)
Source: Education Department Report, 1929, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Maple Leaf School (1968)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Morden 43.
The Maple Leaf School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1314.
Maple Leaf School (July 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Maple Leaf School (September 2018)
Source: George Penner
Maple Leaf School (July 2023)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Maple Leaf School monument (September 2018)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.19305, W98.10705
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Frank Robert Evans (1865-1949)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morden Collegiate (345 Fifth Street, Morden)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Winnipeg Collegiate Institute / Maple Leaf School (Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maple Leaf School (251 McIvor Avenue, Winnipeg)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
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.
Maple Leaf School, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
Marriage [Ida Anna Mitchell / Matthew Richardson, and Grace Conner / Alexander Cruickshank] and death [Katherine Ann Pilkington] registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Maple Leaf School District No. 83 - Daily Registers, GR0347, Archives of Manitoba.
“Where business centres,” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 17 December 1895, page 14.
“Tenders for School building,” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 18 July 1893, page 6.
“Morden,” Manitoba Morning Free Press, 5 January 1901, page 3.
“Morden matters,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 April 1902, page 9.
“New western construction,” Manitoba Free Press, 2 June 1928, page 33.
“Ex-Morden teacher A. W. Tristram dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 April 1950, page 26.
The History of Maple Leaf School District, Re-union of old timers and ex-students, by W. J. Cram, [Manitoba Legislative Library, Rbc F 5649.M67 Cra]
Morden, Mort Cheval, Pinancewaywinning, Lake Agassiz, Morden Centennial Committee.
We thank Rob McInnes, Wendy Paton, George Penner, N. Coutu, Rose Kuzina, Jordan Makichuk, and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 September 2024
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