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The Minto School District was established formally at Minto, in what is now the Municipality of Grassland, in July 1901, becoming Minto Consolidated School in 1962. The present red-brick school building dates from 1928, replacing an earlier two-storey building that was destroyed by fire on 9 March 1928. The bell from the original Minto School is contained a monument nearby, at N49.40680, W100.02314, as a donation from the Minto and District Historical Society.
Period
Principal
1912-1914
Emma Laura Suttis (1881-1971)
1914-1915
William John Gordon Scott (1885-1953)
1915-1916
Emma Laura Suttis (1881-1971)
1916-1919
Nellie Rogers
1919-1921
Angus McNevin (1862-1923)
1921-1924
Alice Myrtle Jennings (1894-1964)
1924-1925
F. H. Anderson
1925-1926
Lillian Margaret Vanstone “Lillie” Marshall (1905-1953)
1926-1930
Mary Hazel Dunseith (1900-1983)
1930-1931
Amy Smith Simpson (1907-1979)
1931-1936
Janet L. Rourke
1936-1937
Margaret C. Martin
1937-1938
William T. Kelley
1938-1944
Janet Louisa May More (1896-1986)
1944-1945
A. Pearl White
1945-1946
Emma Idea Scheibe Gilchrist (1917-2004)
1946-1948
Elizabeth Johannovna Penner (1909-2002)
1948-1952
?
1952-1953
Jack A. Smith
1953-1958
1958-1959
Jacob “Jack” Isaak (1921-2004)
?-?
Kathleen Elizabeth Chambers Armstrong (1919-2014)
Among the other teachers of Minto School were Charles Scarrow (1902), Miss Minnie Burke (1905), Miss Mary Patrick (1906-1907), Miss Ethel Kinley (1907-1908), Miss Hazel M. Hunt (1909), Miss Bertha Keddie (1912-1918), Miss Irene Halliday (1919-1920), Miss Kathlyne Jones (1920-1923), Miss Florence Hammond (1924-1926), Miss Elva Rollins, Alex Smith, Cam Couling, Miss Jean Rourke, Jim Coughlan, Miss Jean Armstrong, Miss Ethel Rogers, Miss Alice McCuaig, Miss Ethel Sproule, Miss Reeves, Miss Pat Herron, Miss H. Burchell, Miss Lacey, Miss Allison Wilson, Miss Margaret Hunter, Miss Finnen, Miss Kay Middleton, Miss Jean Kerr, Mrs. Lillian Munro, Miss Gwen Clarke, Miss Emily Martin, Miss Mary McDougall, Mrs. Beth Armstrong, Mrs. Gwen Martens, Mrs. Jean Young, Miss Karen McNeill, and Sara Elizabeth Buchanan.
Period
Teachers
1928-1929
Mary Hazel Dunseith (grades 9-11), Mary Helena Gould (grades 1-3), Elaine Eva Leaman (grades 4-8)
1929-1930
Mary Hazel Dunseith (grades 9-11), Mary Helena Gould (grades 1-3), Janet Catherine McCraig (grades 4-8)
1930-1931
Mary Helena Gould (grades 1-4), Amy Smith Simpson (grades 9-11), Ruby Young (grades 4-8)
Postcard view of the original wood frame, two-storey Minto School (1920s) by C. I. Meyers
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0051
Minto School (no date) by George Hunter
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 71.
Minto School (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Minto School bell monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.40708, W100.02531
denoted by symbol on the map above
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Minto Memoirs: 1881-1979 by Minto and District Historical Society, 1979, pages 34-35.
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 August 2024
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