Historic Sites of Manitoba: Jordan School / Plumas School No. 88 (Plumas, RM of Westbourne)
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Known originally as the Jordan School District when it was organized in March 1880, it became Plumas Consolidated School No. 88 in 1917. The Plumas School operated in the village of Plumas in the Municipality of Westbourne.
Principals
Period
Principal
1914-1915
Norman McLeod
1915-1916
Robert C. Moir
1916-1918
Martin Murphy
1918-1921
Wilfred Gilbert Pearce (1893-1975)
1921-1924
Dwight Nugent Ridd (1900-1976)
1924-1929
A. H. Foster
1929-1930
Victor Wellington Jenkins (1884-?)
1930-1932
Samuel Howard “Sam” Doctoroff (1907-1978)
1932-1934
Henry Irvine Graham (1903-1991)
1934-1935
George Harold Laycup (1902-1960)
1935-1938
Glenn Homer Turner (1912-1987)
1938-1939
W. K. McMurchy
1939-1940
William H. Murphy
1940-1941
Edward Marshall Maguire (1915-2005)
1941-1943
Benjamin Franklin Olson (1898-1981)
1943-1946
Agnes Sherrard Crickard (1891-1965)
1946-1952
Mac Lane Turner (1915-1956)
1952-1968
Clair Edmond Dawson (?-1995)
1968-1969
D. Smith
1969-1971
C. E. Dawson
1971-1973
L. Tyerman
Teachers
Among the other teachers of Plumas School were Lillian Lawson, Gordon Victor Reynolds (1955-1956), and Marianne Brandt (1963-1964).
Photos & Maps
Plumas School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 25.Site Location (lat/long): N50.38672, W99.08292
denoted by symbol on the map above
Sources:
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.
We thank Henry Esau for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 January 2017
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