Historic Sites of Manitoba: North Plympton School No. 80 / Dugald School No. 80 (Dugald, RM of Springfield)

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The Plympton School District was established in 1879 within the Rural Municipality of Springfield and that same year the Department of Education split the area into the North Plympton School District and South Plympton School District. The North Plympton School District began in October 1879 and a schoolhouse operated at NW34-10-5 East on Gillespie Street in Dugald. Classes began in 1880 and continued at that site until 1892 when a new school was built on Dugald Road, after which the first school was sold and relocated to the farmstead of Stewart Edie (later demolished in 1972). Grades one through eight were taught locally with subsequent high school grades usually acquired via transferred attendance to the Winnipeg School District until 1922.

The second North Plympton School operated from 1892 until 1936, during which the period enrollment grew and a second teacher was added in 1922. Additional space was acquired within the Dugald Methodist Church, though discontinued in favour of a former bank building within the settlment due to difficulty in maintaining sufficient heating levels within the church. In 1931, the district was renamed as the Dugald School District and, in 1936, the new Dugald School opened. The second schoolhouse was later acquired by Norman Edie and moved to his farmstead, where the structure remained standing as of 1973.

Principals

Period	Principal
1922-1923	Frederick Ladlay “Fred” Bousfield (1865-1957)
1923-1924	Mary Marguerite Rodger “Marge” Andrews (1901-1955)
1924-1925	Edith Ann Fingland (1877-1957)
1925-1926	Dorothy Louise Clark
1926-1927	Beatrice Lenore Graham Leathers (1905-1986)
1927-1928	Mary Morrison Munkar
1928-1929	Beatrice Lenore Graham Leathers (1905-1986)
1929-1930	Ruth Ardell Bradley Land (1906-1988)
1930-1931	Kathleen Ina Rodgers Burrows (?-?)
1931-1932	Marion Winona Romanche Pepper (1912-1991)
1932-1933	Dorothy Ivy Mudge Jones (c1904-?)
1933-1936	Ross Laverne Donald (1907-1992)
After 1936	See Dugald School

Teachers

Among the early teachers of North Plympton School were Miss Florence Brigham (1881), Eliza Wiliamson (1882-1883), Alf Downes (1884), Cora L. Darke (1885), May E. Lunn (1886-1888), Robert Johnston (1888), Helen Browne “Nellie” Hislop (1889), Mae Heslip (1889), Minnie Conklin (1890), Miss Halpenny (1891), Mr. McRae (1892), Anne McFarlane (1893), George Slater (1894), J. B. Hugg (1895), K. S. Hugg (1895-1896), R. Y. Conklin (1896-1898), William Thomas Daniel Lathwell (1899), Isabell Robertson (1900), Joe Marshall (1900), L. Riley (1901), Mary Patrick (1902-1903), Elizabeth Robertson (1904), Duncan Martin (1904), Clara Gallaway (1905), Alma McLeod (1907), Ethel M. McLaughlan (1907), Norman Brett (1908-1909), Miss E. M. Caskill (1910-1913), Gertrude E. Jackson (1913-1917), Lillian A. Smith (1917), Winnifred M. Church (1917-1920), Jean R. Cox (1920-1921), Frances E. Stanbridge (1921-1922).

Period	Teachers
1922-1923	Frederick Ladlay “Fred” Bousfield (grades 9-11), Frances E. Stanbridge (grades 1-8)
1923-1924	Pauline D. Rochford (grades 1-8), Mary Marguerite Rodger (grades 9-11)
1924-1925	Edith Ann Fingland (grades 9-11), Georgina E. Fraser (grades 1-8), Margaret L. McKerlie (grades 1-8, 1925)
1925-1926	Dorothy Louise Clark (grades 9-11), Margaret L. McKerlie (grades 1-8)
1926-1927	Beatrice Lenore Graham Leathers (grades 9-11), Margaret L. McKerlie (grades 1-8)
1927-1928	Margaret L. McKerlie (grades 1-8), Mary Morrison Munkar (grades 9-11)
1928-1929	Beatrice Lenore Graham Leathers (grades 9-11), Charlotte Smith (grades 1-8)
1929-1930	Ruth Ardell Bradley (grades 6-10), Edith Mary Norman (grades 1-5)
1930-1931	Violet E. R. Hark (grades 1-5), Kathleen Ina Rodgers (grades 6-10)
1931-1932	Violet E. R. Hark (grades 1-5), Marion Winona Romanche (grades 6-10)
1932-1933	Violet E. R. Hark (grades 1-5), Dorothy Ivy Mudge (grades 6-10)
1933-1934	Ross Laverne Donald (grades 6-10), Violet E. R. Hark (grades 1-5)
1934-1935	Ross Laverne Donald (grades 6-10), Violet E. R. Hark (grades 1-5)
1935-1936	Ross Laverne Donald (grades 6-10), May Elizabeth Kennedy (grades 1-5)
After 1936	See Dugald School

Photos & Coordinates

Dugald School (no date) by R. Goulet Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 33. Dugald School teacherage (no date) by R. Goulet Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 33. Site Location (lat/long): N49.88569, W96.83945 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Plympton School / Dugald School No. 80 (Dugald, RM of Springfield)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: South Plympton School No. 81 (RM of Springfield)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dugald Consolidated School No. 2427 (Dugald, RM of Springfield)

Sources:

Dugald West topographic map, 62H/15, Edition 2, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].

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.

Springfield, 1st Rural Municipality in Manitoba, 1873-1973, Dugald Women’s Institute.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, North Plympton School District No. 80 - Daily Registers, GR9480, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Dugald School District No. 80 - Daily Registers, GR9480, Archives of Manitoba.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 24 August 2022

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