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The Marshland School District was organized formally in August 1903 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE19-16-10W in what is now the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone. For most of the 1920s to 1940s, the school operated with an average of three students or less, and was closed on at least one occasion (1933) during that span of years. There were about ten students in the early 1940s. The district was dissolved in June 1945 and its catchment area was added to the Langruth Consolidated School District.
Among the teachers of Marshland School were information not available (Fall 1903 - Fall 1904), L. H. Brown (Spring 1905), J. A. Hanneson (Fall 1905), Helga Johannson (Spring-Fall 1906), Jonas Thorlaksson Jonasson (Spring 1907), Hilda Johnson (Fall 1907), Daniel Windsor (Spring-Fall 1908), Gudny Solmmodson? [Solmundson?] (Spring 1909), Lena Gottfried [Gottfred] (Fall 1909 - Fall 1910), school closed (Spring 1911 - Spring 1912), Elsie Bjarnason (Fall 1912), Harardur Eliason (Spring 1913), school closed (Fall 1913), Harry Johnson (Spring 1914), Thoranna Anderson (Fall 1914 - Spring 1915), Alma Wheatley (Fall 1915), Pauline Johnson (Spring 1916 - Spring 1917), Magnusina Magnusson (Fall 1917 - Spring 1918), ? (Fall 1918 - Spring 1920), Matilda Gillespie (Fall 1920 - Spring 1921), Archie M. Thomson (Fall 1921), Karl Baldwin Thorkelson (Spring 1922), Gladys Isabelle Sleigh (Fall 1922 - Spring 1924), students attending at Langruth School (Fall 1924, Fall 1928 - Spring 1930, August-September 1930, Fall 1934 - Spring 1935, Fall 1938 - Spring 1940), school closed (Spring 1925), Johanna S. Thompson (October 1930 - June 1931), ? (Fall 1931 - Spring 1932), Sigridur Katrin Arnadottir [S. C.?] Johannson (Fall 1932 - Spring 1933), ? (Fall 1933 - Spring 1934), ? (Fall 1935 - Spring 1938), Margaret May Archer (Fall 1940 - Spring 1941), and Blanche Johannson (1940s).
Marshland School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 90.Site Location (lat/long): N50.37458, W98.82480
denoted by symbol on the map above
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Marshland School District No. 1278, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Marshland School District No. 1278 Daily Registers, GR3152, 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 Walter Arksey for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 7 September 2024
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