The Methley School District was established in May 1921 and a one-room schoolhouse operated in the railway siding of Methley (about SW2-26-15W) in the Rural Municipality of Lawrence. In 1936, its operation came under the control of the Lawrence Municipal School District. The school closed in 1960. Two years later, the building was moved to the site of Magnet School.
The teachers of Methley School were A. L. Sloan (1924-1925), Donalda Softon (1925-1926), H. F. Dietrich (1926-1927), M. D. Hall (1927), Mrs. Mary Wilson (1927-1929), Mrs. B. Leary (1929-1930), G. E. Ray (1930-1931), Mary Wallace (1931-1932), Phyllis I. Mann (1932-1934), Winnifred Clarke (1935), Pearl J. Tuck (1936-1937), Margaret J. Nicola Ross (1937-1943), Dorothy E. Cody (1943-1944), Miss K. Stourk (1944), Marie T. Meyer (1945-1946), Marie A. Montsion (1946-1947), Bernice M. Saucy (1947-1948), George Paulin (1948-1949), Annastasia Prediger (1949-1950), Frances Horeczy (1950-1951), Olga Budzey (1952-1953), Rita Boisvert (1953-1954), Cecile de Classe (1954), Marie Adam (1955-1956), Orest J. Tymchuk (1956-1957), and Marie Luke (1957-1960).
Methley School (no date) by R. M. Stevenson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 85.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.21479, W99.46736
denoted by symbol on the map above
Valpoy West topographic map, 62O/3 West, Edition 1, Series A743 [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.
Opening the Door - The Past Comes Alive, The History of the Rural Municipality of Lawrence by Lawrence Municipality History Committee, 1997, pages 128, 175-176.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 31 August 2019
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