Historic Sites of Manitoba: Miniota Municipal School No. 149 (Miniota, Municipality of Prairie View)

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The Miniota School District No. 389 was formally established in 7-14-26 west of the Principal Meridian, in what is now the Municipality of Prairie View. In April 1913, the school was moved from its original site, joining Beulah School No. 162 and Sarahville School No. 680 to form the Miniota Consolidated School No. 680 in the village of Miniota.

In April 1919, the school came under the authority of the Miniota Municipal School Board which, in addition to operating this school, also consolidated several other rural schools, some of which remaining operating under the control of the board. Included in the new, larger district of Miniota Municipal School No. 149 were Blaris School No. 358, Palmerston School No. 638, Wynona School No. 1048, Omar School No. 1194, Brighton School No. 1192, Thoona School No. 1241, Isabella School No. 1333, Glenlochar School No. 1369, and Uno School No. 1674.

Principals

Period	Principal
1915-1917	Charles M. Brousson
1917-1918	W. H. Grieve
1918-1919	Marion Dent
1919-1922	Anna B. Murphy
1922-1924	James William Beer (1896-1978)
1924-1927	John Elwin Laird (1876-1950)
1927-1928	Anna Lee
1928-1930	Frances Bevereley Sharman
1930-1934	Dwight John Adolphus Dahlgren (1901-1992)
1934-1938	Ernest Harvey Reid (1903-1956)
1938-1941	Aubrey B. Cunningham
1941-1942	Paul I. Robinson (1906-1993)
1942-1943	Margaret Hawley Speers (1908-2008)
1943-1944	Marjory Thompson Smith (1892-1969)
1944-1947	Howard Willard Stevenson (1911-1948)
1947-1951	A. B. Cunningham
1951-1952	F. M. A. Gendreau
1952-1953	Mrs. Florence McMullen
1953-1956	Cecil Victor Gunn (1894-?)
1956-1959	F. C. Denham
1959-1960	J. Wilkie
1960-1966	Harvey Kingdon
1966-1969	Larry Verner Moldowan (1940-2013)
1969-1971	Mrs. E. Barrett
1971-1973	B. Cornish
1973-1988	?
1988-?	Jim Procyk

Teachers

Among the other teachers of Miniota School was J. L. Morrow.

Photos & Coordinates

Sarahville School (February 1908) Source: Education Department Report, 1907, Manitoba Legislative Library. Sarahville School / Miniota Consolidated School (circa 1911) Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspector Photos GR2664, C65. Miniota Consolidated School (no date) by H. L. Albright Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 49. Miniota Consolidated School (no date) Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7447, Album 2, Page 14. Miniota School (July 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Miniota 8. Miniota School (July 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Miniota 9. Sarahville-Miniota School commemorative monument (September 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.14340, W101.03893 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Arrow River School No. 149 (Arrow River, Municipality of Prairie View)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Sarahville School No. 680 (Municipality of Prairie View)

Sources:

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.

“Trustees conduct regular meeting,” Hamiota Echo, 13 September 1988, page 7.

Obituary [Catherine Maria Thexton], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 March 2019.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 8 December 2020

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