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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Minto School No. 1174 (Minto, Municipality of Grassland)
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Minto School was established formally in 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. The bell from Minto School is contained a monument nearby, at N49.40680 W100.02314, as a donation from the Minto and District Historical Society.
Principals
Period
Principal
1912-1914
Emma Laura Suttis (1881-1971)
1914-1915
William J. Gordon Scott
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
Lille M. Vanstone
1926-1929
Mary Hazel Dunseith (1900-1983)
1929-1931
Amy Smith
1931-1936
Janet L. Rorke
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
1948-1952
?
1952-1953
Jack A. Smith
1953-1958
Henry R. Schellenberg (?-?)
1958-1959
Jacob “Jack” Isaak (1921-2004)
?-?
Kathleen Elizabeth Chambers Armstrong (1919-2014)
Teachers
Among the other teachers of Minto School was Sara Elizabeth Buchanan.
Photos & Maps
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 Location (lat/long): N49.40708, W100.02531
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
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 Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 January 2019
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