The Princess School District was established formally in June 1885, and a school building was erected on the southwest quarter of 4-3-25 west of the Principal Meridian, in what is now the Municipality of Brenda-Waskada. It closed in January 1958 and its remaining students went to Waskada Consolidated School No. 492. The former schoolhouse was moved to NW3-3-25W and used as a residence. A monument at the former school site was dedicated on 28 June 1981.
Among the teachers of Princess School were Miss Perrin or Miss Gilroy (1885), Henry Thompson (1892), Maud Van Blaricom (1893), Martha Slater (1894), Hugh Elliott (1895), Ellathea McDonald (1896-1898), Alice Schmidt (1899), Mary McComb (1900), P. H. Boden (1901), E. J. Thomas (1902), M. Bertha Snell (1903), James McDonald (1903), S. Allis Baxter (1904), E. J. Thomas (1905), Mrs. Crawford (1911), Miss Vlara DeWitt (1912), Miss Mary Hall (1913-1914), Miss Laura Robinson (1914), Miss Gladys Millichamp (1915), Miss Dolina Campbell (1916), Miss Katie McGregor (1917), Mary C. Johnstone (1918), Miss Beatrice Morton (1918), Miss May DeWitt (1919), Miss Velma Mackie (1920), Miss Estelle Spence (1920-1922), Miss Thelma Strong (1923), Miss Stella A. Clement (1923-1925), Miss Florence Merrill (1925-1926), Miss M. Naylor (1926-1927), Mis Gwen R. Hawcutt (1927-1934), Miss E. Rose Barnes (1934-1935), Miss Mabel Clement (1935-1936), Mis Esther Caldwell (1936-1937), Miss Edythe Stevenson (1937-1940), Miss Irene Dafoe (1940), Miss Jean Coutts (1941), Miss Olive McKay (1941), Mrs. Andy Palmer (1941-1942), Miss Jean Coutts (1942-1943), Miss Violet Hinchey (1943-1944), Miss Alice Evans (1944-1945), Miss Kathy Mazur (1945-1946), Miss Agatha Sawatzky (1946-1947), Miss Vivian Richards (1947-1948), Miss Agatha Sawatzky (1948-1949), Miss Muriel Hamblin (1949-1950), Miss Lorna Hainsworth (1950-1953), Miss Thelma Langley (1953-1954), Miss Wilma Burton (1954-1955), Miss Leona Ryberg (1955-1957), and Ray Zelowsky (1957-1958).
Princess School (no date) by George Hunter
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 46.
Princess School commemorative monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.17794, W100.80337
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Bridging Brenda: The History of Brenda Municipality and Area, Volume 1 by Brenda History Committee, 1990, pages 117-120.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 October 2022
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