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With the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in this area of Manitoba, in 1885, the community of Newdale moved from its former location (which later became known as Oldale) north to the railway line, in the Rural Municipality of Harrison. A school was established at this site and named Harrison School No. 431 because the school at Oldale, called Newdale School No. 265, remained in operation. This caused confusion so, in July 1917, Newdale School was renamed Oldale School, and Harrison School became Newdale Consolidated School, with the addition of several surrounding rural schools that closed around this time: Rosemount School No. 319, Pattison School No. 1376, and Lone Tree School No. 1597.
The two-storey, brick structure for Newdale Consolidated School building dates from 1911, when it was built on a design by Brandon architect W. A. Elliott. It operated until 1969 but all that remains at its site today is a cairn, dedicated in 1985, and its name plaque.
Period
Principal
1912-1914
Edward Stockley
1914-1916
John H. Snyder (c1874-?)
1916-1919
John Houston (1848-1938)
1919-1920
H. G. Lesson
1920-1921
Lewis Emmett Lynd (1876-1961)
1921-1922
John William Morris
1922-1925
Cecil James Hutchings (1897-1983)
1925-1928
F. H. Anderson
1928-1930
Albert Wallace Craigie (1891-1964)
1930-1939
Elmenia Jean Mollard (1901-1991)
1939-1941
Frederick Adam Hodgkinson (1912-2004)
1941-1942
Margaret Hawley Speers (1908-2008)
1942-1943
Joseph A. McCracken (1911-1991)
1943-1945
Ruth Annie Fairlie Henderson (1904-1992)
1945-1947
Jacob Truthwaite Norquay (1884-1976)
1947-1948
Verna A. Brown
1948-1949
Ruth E. Humeston
1949-1952
Albert Lionel “Ab” Richardson (1910-1982)
1952-1954
Guy William John Costley (1924-1988)
1954-1959
Michael John Makowski (1924-2002)
Among the other teachers of Newdale School were William John Bates (1907-1908), J. W. Beckett, Agnes Ellen Martin (1910s), and Dorothy Mae Strath (1940s)
Newdale School (no date) by W. C. Hartley
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 50.
Newdale School grade 8 room (no date) by W. C. Hartley
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 50.
Newdale School commemorative monument (July 2011)
Source: Allan DrysdaleSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.35389, W100.20110
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Obituary [Agnes Ellen Sisler], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 August 1981, page 71.
Geographic Names of Manitoba, Manitoba Conservation, 2000.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Allan Drysdale, and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 16 July 2020
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