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The Mather School District was established formally in July 1905 and it operated a school in Mather in what is now the Municipality of Cartwright-Roblin. The original two-storey brick and stone building was destroyed by fire on 3 March 1918 and it was replaced by the present one-storey, two-classroom structure later that year. In 1954, a third classroom was constructed on its north side. A fourth classroom was created in the basement in 1968, and all four rooms were used until 1977 when two of them were closed due to declining student enrollment. The school closed in June 1985 and the building was renovated into a private residence.
Period
Principal
1950-1952
Jessie A. Mackintosh
1952-1953
John H. Krieger
1953-1954
Thomas “Tom” Tesarski (1924-2018)
1954-1958
Peter Stobbe
1958-1959
P. Mikolayenko
Among the other teachers of Mather School were Mable Daly (1905), Miss Widden (1906), W. J. D. Fulford (1907), Jonathan Nunn (1908), Tena Coulthard (1909-1912), Albert G. Fulford (1910-1911), Cathrine Smith (1912), Daisy Cuthbert (1913-1914), Mr. M. F. Pringle (1913-1914), Mary McLean (1915-1916), Mrs. Dodge (1915), Crete Munsen (1915), Jacob Arbuckle (1916), Helena Robertson (1917-1919), Ethel McLean (1917), Ruth Ames (1918), Ruth Scarfe (1919), K. I. Taylor (1920-1922), Mrs. Earl Agar (1920), Mrs. Savage (1921), Miss Campbell (1922), Dorothy Strachan (1923), Miss Shefield (1923), Florence Wilson (1924), Inez Overend (1924), May Meyers (1924), Tena Harrison (1924), Eli Jenkins (1925), Miss Long (1925), Jessie Ames (1925-1929), J. A. Wilson (1926), John Peter Sigvaldason (1927-1929), Evelyn Campbell (1930-1932), George Belton (1930-1931), Cecil H. Barkley (1932-1938), Eunice Argue (1939), John Sinclair “Clair” Nelin (1939), Evelyn Church (1940-1942), Vivian Sampson (1940-1941), Doreen Davidson (1942-1944), Jessie Mackintosh (1943-1950), Miss Porter (1945-1947), Doreen Matheson (1948-1949), Agnes Drummond (1950), John Krieger (1951), Elaine Haight (1952-1953), Joan Clements (1954-1955), Norma Sutherland (1954-1955), Laura Medland (1956-1957), Tena Moffat (1956-1957), Margaret Hart (1959-1961), Marion Shepherd (1959-1963), Louise Fast (1959-1963), Margaret Vincent (1962-1963), Hazel Rothenburger (1966-1968), Vera Stewart (1966-1967), Dorothy Schram (1966-1973), June Henderson (1968-1969), David Miller (1968-1969), Josefina Santiago (1969-1971), Afke Hoogland (1970-1972), Miss Dueck (1970), Karen Dick (1970-1971), Linda Campbell (1972-1973), Sharon Robins (1972), June Armstrong (1973-1976), Albert Bashutski (1973), Elizabeth Barnes (1974), Stuart Phillips (1974-1980), Linda Cohoe (1977), and Karen Moore (1978-1980).
Postcard of the original Mather School building (1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company
Source: Rob McInnes, MN0292
Mather School (1920s) by W. J. Parr
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 102.
The former Mather School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1125.
The former Mather School building, now a private residence (September 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.09487, W99.19025
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Crocus Country: A History of Mather & Surrounding Districts by Mather History Committee, 1981.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
We thank Scott Melvin and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 March 2024
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