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The Myrtle School District was established formally in Myrtle, in the Rural Municipality of Roland, in May 1892. In August 1919, it became Myrtle Consolidated School No. 708 when it was consolidated with McNab School No. 1032, Queen Centre School No. 1219, and Woodvale School No. 1350. The school closed in January 1968 and was later demolished and replaced by a commemorative monument.
Period
Principal
1920-1923
Robert James Mackenzie (1887-1977)
1923-1924
Christopher Stow (1873-1933)
1924-1926
Ruby Lytle
1926-1927
John Henry Hall (1881-1950)
1927-1929
Mabel Cooper
1929-1930
Sidney Irvine “Sears” Mott (1870-1957)
1930-1934
W. F. C. Billyard
1934-1935
John M. Robinson
1935-1937
Emerson Hally Denike (1909-1977)
1937-1941
James A. Unger
1941-1945
Harry Sharpe (c1905-1958)
1945-1947
Bernice A. Smyski
1947-1950
Stella Howelko Dunn (1916-2000)
1950-1953
Jonas Rafnkelsson
1953-1957
William Morrow Ingram (1907-1964)
1957-1958
Donald Berry
Among the other teachers of Myrtle School were Miss Alice Argue (1893), Charles L. Miller, Ethel M. Arnott, and Carolyne Alexandra McBean.
Myrtle School (no date) by A. J. Manning
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 112.
Myrtle School (1968)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Myrtle 1.
Myrtle School commemorative monument (September 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Myrtle School commemorative monument (July 2023)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.35407, W97.83623
denoted by symbol on the map above
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Obituary [Emerson Heley Denike], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 December 1977, page 86.
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.
Roland & Myrtle Family Histories, Roland 4H, 1990, page 89.
We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 May 2024
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