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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Minto School No. 1174 (Minto, Municipality of Grassland)Link to: 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. Principals
TeachersAmong 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 Elaine Leamen, Miss Helena Gould, Miss Reeves, Miss Pat Herron, Miss H. Burchell, Miss Lacey, Miss Allison Wilson, Miss Margaret Hunter, Miss Finnen, Miss Ruby Young, 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. Photos & Coordinates
Sources: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. We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 7 August 2022
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