The Marshall School District was formed in August 1919 as a union school district consisting of a catchment area spanning the Rural Municipality of McCreary, Municipality of Ste. Rose, and what would later become the Rural Municipality of Alonsa. Two early debentures were issues, the first for $3,500 in the summer of 1920 to finance the purchase of a school site, along with the schoolhouse construction and furnishing thereof. The school was located at the northwest corner of NW31-21-13W in what was at the time unorganized territory (later RM of Alonsa). That was followed with a further $900 debenture in late 1921 to construct a stable upon the school grounds.
The school did not operate contiguously, with three gaps during the 1920s where classroom instruction was not provided locally. By the 1930s, enrollment again dipped below the minimum threshold and the school was closed in the summer of 1934. The schoolhouse was then sold and relocated to the Mountain Eve School District No. 1152, and the remaining pupils from Marshall School District attended classes within the adjoining school districts, including Beaver Dam School (Spring 1947).
In January 1955, the district was formally dissolved, by which time its catchment was re-assigned to Sunrise School District No. 1926, Beaver Dam School No. 1652, and McCarthy School District No. 1861. The area later became part of the Turtle River School Division.
Among the teachers of Marshall School were Nellie Glover (August-December 2020), W. Pocklington (January-June 1921), Edith Powell (Fall 1921 - Spring 1922), did not operate (Fall 1922 - Spring 1923), Jessie Smith (Fall 1923), Velma V. Ostrum (Spring 1924 & July-December 1924), did not operate (January-May 1925), David Pearl (June-September 1925), Grace Dolmage (October-December 1925), Kathleen Hannah Winram (April-May 1926), Dorothy I. Belcher (Fall 1926 - Spring 1927), did not operate (Fall 1927 - Spring 1930), Edna Matheson (Fall 1930 - Fall 1931), and Frances Elizabeth Willard Gray (Fall 1932 - Spring 1934).
Marshall School (no date) by H. J. Everall
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 77, N24966.
The former Marshall School in use as the second Mountain Eve School (no date) by H. Connolly
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 67, N21880.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.85928, W99.27503
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Mountain Eve School No. 1152 (Municipality of McCreary)
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #35 School District of Smalley, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #31 School District of Smalley, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Marshall School District No. 2013, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Marshall School District No. 2013 - Cash Book, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Marshall School District No. 2013 - Minute Book, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Marshall School District No. 2013, GR1630, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), School District No. 2013 Marshall, GR7883, Archives of Manitoba.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 2013 - Marshall - Permanent , GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Marshall School District No. 2013 - Daily Registers, GR6770, Archives of Manitoba.
William Reid Clubb fonds, Municipal maps volumes 1-2, PR1962-09, Archives of Manitoba.
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.
We thank Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 6 May 2024
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