Historic Sites of Manitoba: Minto School No. 1174 (Minto, Municipality of Grassland)

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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.

Principals

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)
1926-1929	Mary Hazel Dunseith (1900-1983)
1929-1931	Amy Smith
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 Johannonna Penner (?-?)
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 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

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 Goldsborough Site Coordinates (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.

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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