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The Pierson School District was established formally in February 1892 and it operated a school in Pierson in what is now the Municipality of Two Borders. In 1956, it became the Edward Municipal School District. Three years later, it became part of the Antler River School Division.
Period
Principal
1904-1919
James Burke
1919-1924
?
1924-1925
Ilo Elizabeth McHaffie McDonald (1899-1988)
1925-1926
George Edgar Haywood (c1902-1985)
1926-1927
Thomas Patrick King (1873-1954)
1927-1929
Allan Shafer Bowman (1906-1941)
1929-1931
Wallace Henry McIntyre (1904-1960)
1931-1933
Richard Collier “Dick” Green (1899-1955)
1933-1936
Grace Elizabeth Armstrong Moore (1914-2008)
1936-1938
Robert John Coates (1908-1990)
1938-1939
Henry Joseph Grenon (1881-1981)
1939-1941
Harry Sharpe (c1905-1958)
1941-1943
Bodvar Jon Skuli Bodvarson (1911-1972)
1943-1946
Hildur Sandborn
1946-1947
Agnes Sherrard Crickard (1891-1965)
1947-1948
Walter Humphrey Wilfred Walker (1908-1974)
1948-1950
Beulah Beryl McNevin (1896-1963)
1950-1951
Ernest Edmond “Ernie” Brennan (1927-2014)
1951-1954
Nicholas Yarish (1924-2012)
1954-1955
Olafia Jonina Jonsson Melan (1887-1966)
1955-1956
George W. Fellowes
1956-1959
Norman S. Toms (?-?)
1959-1963
Glen Wayne Hanna
1963-1966
Delorie Wessels “Del” Howell (1925-2008)
1966-1968
F. Poroda
1968-1970
S. T. Lesniewski
1970-1972
N. M. Annell
1972-1973
R. Neuman
1982-1983
J. Kirkup
Period
Teachers
1926-1927
Arletta? May Dobbyn (grades 1-3), Thomas Patrick King (grades 8-10), Grace McNabb (grades 4-7)
1927-1933
?
1933-1934
William Neil Gilchrist (grades 7-11), Dorothea Kate Herman (grades 1-6)
1934-1935
Grace Elizabeth Armstrong (grades 8-11), Ethel Anna Sankey (grades 1-7)
1935-1936
Grace Elizabeth Armstrong (grades 7-12), Ethel Anna Sankey (grades 1-6)
1936-1937
Robert John Coates (grades 9-11), Myrtle Crossman (grades 1-4), Gertrude Dobbyn (grades 5-8)
Among the other teachers who worked at Pierson School were W. A. Mann (1897), Mina McLaren (1903), Mr. A. McMurchy (1923), Miss E. Basted (1923), Miss Grierson (1947), Mr. Hanna (1960), and Grace Judd (1974-1975). Other names recorded in school records were Arnett, Bremner, Dean Mann, Rathwell, Ali, Austman, Adams, Brennen, Mr. Burke, Miss Burke, Baker, Brown, Bucklaschuk, Buan, Bouldion, R. Boulton, J. Bolton, Brotherhood, Busby, Buga, Brooks, Bride, Bailey, Bernhard, Bodkin, Besuitherick, Crossman, Cassels, Cullen, Coates, Southam (Christianson), Calrow, Cole, Dell, Dyer, Dickson, De Vuyst, Donen, M. Dobbyn, G. Dobbyn, Dawn, Down, Day, Ferguson, Fleming, Faulkner, Friesen (Melvin), Mary Fewings, M. Fewings (Nicholls), R. Fewings, French, Grube, Gardiner, Graham, Ghandi, Gayton, Gilchrist, Hall, Holeman, Haight, Higbee, Huber, Hrabluk, Janz, Julyan, Kirby, King, Kitchen, Kowalchuck, Le Barron, Lacquement, S. Lesniewski, M. Lesniewski, McClintock, Mayes, J. Melvin, E. Melvin, McDonald, Muir, McNabb, Mundell, McFetridge, McLaren, MacKenzie, Marquis, Miller, Nylin, Randy Neuman, P. Neuman, Mr. Neary, Mrs. Neary, Owen, Olds, Olson, G. Penner, Mr. Penner, Peters, Pettinger, Rollo, Rennie, Roy, Reddaway, Ramsey, Reid, Rankmore, Robinson, Sankey, D. Southam, I. Southam, Doris Southam, Skelton (Kernaghan), Smith, Snyder (Deplaedt), Scarth, Sanborn, Sambrook, Trenouth (Murray), D. Wayne Thompson, Tucker, Tokaryk, Veloski, Wright, Wilson, White, Wrobleski, Whenman, Mrs. Yarrish, and Zeller.
Postcard view of the Pierson School building (circa 1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company
Source: Rob McInnes
Pierson School (1920s) by George Hunter
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 108.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.17834, W101.25822
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.
Harvests of Time: History of the R.M. of Edward by Edward History Book Committee, 1983, pages 171-176.
Aerial photograph A11050-318 [1948], Manitoba Air Photo Library.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 August 2021
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