Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ashland School No. 86 / Sanford School No. 86 / J. A. Cuddy School (Sanford, RM of Macdonald)

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This site was the location of Sanford School in the village of Sanford, in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald. It originated with Ashland School No. 86, established formally in March 1880. For a time, classes were held in a granary on the farm of Walter Burns, under teacher G. M. Atkinson. The school board soon purchased half an acre of land at SE30-8-1E from board chairman John W. Parker, for the sum of $1. A building measuring 18 feet by 24 feet was erected, with two windows on each of three sides. It was used until 1898 when a more modern school was built nearby. This second Ashland School was used for 16 years.

In March 1913, Ashland School was consolidated with Prairie Centre School No. 1349 to become Sanford Consolidated School No. 86. Needing a larger building, the school board borrowed $10,000 to construct a new building on five acres of land in the village of Sanford, purchased for $125 from the Parker estate. Designed by Winnipeg architect E. D. Tuttle, the two-storey frame structure featured an auditorium with a stage for school and community functions. By the fall of 1915, it had three teachers, increasing to four teachers in 1926 when the school began offering instruction in grade 12.

When grades 9-12 were transferred to Sanford Collegiate in early 1962, the school subsequently became an elementary school. In 1964, a new four-classroom school was built and, later that year, the old school was demolished. The school district was dissolved in 1969 and the Morris-Macdonald School Division No. 19 was formed. Additions to the building were made in 1974 and, around this time, the school was renamed posthumously in honour of James Anthony Cuddy.

In August 1981, the former school bell was mounted in front of the new school, along with plaques commemorating the school and other rural schools in the vicinity: Donore School No. 118 at NW10-8-1E (1881-1952), Ferndale School No. 498 at NE3-9-1W (1881-1960), and Golden Valley School No. 1438 at SE30-8-1W (1908-1955). The bell had been purchased in April 1915 with the proceeds of a community dance.

Principals

Period	Principal
1911	Edward Sandford Lord (1869-1922)
1911-1913	?
1913-1914	Olive Edith Gray (1873-1948)
1914-1915	J. Beryl Hoar
1915-1916	Pearl Nama Broadworth (1885-?)
1916	George Levant Thompson (c1888-?)
1916	Lillian H. Donnelly
1917-1918	Mabel Estella Prout (1889-1964)
1918-1920	M. W. Robertson
1920	George William Burrell (1857-1941)
1920	William Alexander Cuddy (1890-1945)
1920-1923	Ruth Parker (1894-1953)
1923	Henrietta Beveridge Herkes (1899-?)
1923	Ruth Parker (1894-1953)
1924	L. Winnifred Muzzy
1924-1926	George Cecil Speers (1886-1958)
1926-1927	Ruth Parker (1894-1953)
1927-1930	Mary Spice
1930-1931	Axel Vopnfjord (1902-1993)
1931-1934	Howard Reginald Standing (1899-1994)
1934-1937	John Edward Lysecki (1905-1990)
1937-1938	William Alfred Lorne McFarland (1908-1990)
1938-1939	Robert Stanley “Stan” McGill (1909-1994)
1939-1942	James Cameron Martin (1910-1982)
1942-1943	Benjamin “Ben” [Pope] Popeski (1913-1995)
1943	Joseph Joubert
1944-1946	Peter Henry Funk (1906-2003)
1946-1948	James Weir Cowan (1910-1959)
1948-1955	Leonard Abraham Floyde (1918-1990)
1955-1961	James Austin Delgaty (1894-1974)
1961-1963	?
1963-1964	William Sanford “Bill” Kirbyson (1908-1995)
1964-1971	John Guthrie “Jack” Forsyth (1941-2011)
?	Margaret Rose Barkley “Marnie” Erb (1937-2012)

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1906	J. E. Hurl
1907	J. E. Hurl
1908	J. E. Hurl
1909	J. E. Hurl (January-April), ? (May-June), Jacob Arbuckle (September-December)
1910	May Cameron (January-June), Edward Sandford Lord (August-December)
1911	Frances Balfour (junior grades), Edward Sandford Lord (senior grades, Fall), Thomas R. K. Tozer (senior grades, Spring)
1912	(Spring only) William A. Cuddy (senior grades), Pearl Miller (junior grades)
1912-1913	Olive E. Gray (senior grades), Pearl Miller (grades ?)
1913-1914	E. Pearl Crealock (grades 1-4), Olive E. Gray (grades 5-10)
1914-1915	Pearl Margaret Clement (grades 1-5), J. Beryl Hoar (grades 6-10)
1915-1916	Pearl Nama Broadworth (grades 8-11), Pearl Margaret Clement (grades 1-3, 1915; grades 1-4, 1916), Mabel E. Prout (grades 4-7), Levant Thompson (grades 8-11, 1916),
1916-1917	Ethel M. Bennett (grades 1-4, 1916), Lillian H. Donnelly (grades 7-10, 1916), J. Nugent (grades 1-4, 1917), Mabel E. Prout (grades 7-10, 1917), Edith Waddell (grades 4-6)
1917-1918	Vietta Helen Clement (grades 4-6), J. Nugent (grades 1-3), Mabel E. Prout (grades 7-11)
1918-1919	Vietta Helen Clement (grades 5-7), F. Cunningham (grades 1-4), M. W. Robertson (grades 8-11)
1919-1920	Vietta Helen Clement (grades 5-7, 1920), J. L. Dean (grades 5-7, 1919), M. W. Robertson (grades 8-11), ? (grades 1-4)
1920-1921	George Burrell (grades 8-10, 1920), W. A. Cuddy (grades 8-10, 1920), Ruth Parker (grades 8-10), E. Esther Phipps (grades 5-7), Winnie M. Sanderson (grades 1-4)
1921-1922	W. A. Cuddy (grades 8-11, 1921), Ada E. Hughes (grades 1-4), Ruth Parker (grades 8-11, 1921; grades 9-11, 1921-1922), Kathleen Sanderson (grades 4-7, 1921; grades 5-8, 1922), Winnie M. Sanderson (grades 1-4, 1921)
1922-1923	J. M. Lawson (grades 1-4), Ruth Parker (grades 9-11), Helen Spackman (grades 5-8, 1923), Alma Young (grades 5-8, 1922)
1923-1924	Henrietta B. Herkes (grades 9-11, 1923), Uldena Livingston (grades 5-8), Ruth Parker (grades 9-11, 1923), L. Winnifred Muzzy (grades 9-11, 1924), ? (grades 1-4)
1924-1925	Helen E. Gilbert (grades 9-11, 1924), Helen J. Lang (grades 1-4), Uldena Livingston (grades 5-8), Leslie A. Mutch (grades 9-11, 1925), George C. Speers (grade 12)
1925-1926	Eva Calverley (grades 9-11), Rozann Carey (grades 5-8), Vera R. Murray (grades 1-4), George C. Speers (grades 9-12, 1925; grade 12, 1926), Mary E. Tayler (grades 5-8, 1926)
1926-1927	Florence E. Andrew (grades 9-10), Vera R. Murray (grades 1-4), Ruth Parker (grades 11-12), Mary E. Tayler (grades 5-8)
1927-1928	Vera R. Murray (grades 1-4), S. Margaret Olafson (grades 5-8), Ada Gertrude O'Neill (grades 9-10), Mary Spice (grades 11-12)
1928-1929	Vera R. Murray (grades 1-2), S. Margaret Olafson (grades 6-8), Ada Gertrude O'Neill (grades 9-10), Marguerite Dorothy Shortreed (grades 3-5), Mary Spice (grades 11-12)
1929-1930	Cecilia Teresa Acke (grades 6-8), Wilmet Margaretta Bowler (grades 1-2), Ada Gertrude O'Neill (grades 9-10), Mary Spice (grades 11-12), Ella J. Wilson (grades 3-5)
1930-1931	Frances Lucille Fox (grades 1-2), Irene Isabelle Gill (grades 6-8), Wilhelmine Malcolmson (grades 9-10), Ella J. Wilson (grades 3-5), Axel Vopnfjord (grades 11-12)
1931-1932	Frances Lucille Fox (grades 1-2), Hazel Gertrude Gooden (grades 6-8, 1931), Wilhelmine Malcolmson (grades 9-10), Howard Reginald Standing (grades 11-12), Ida Elena Waines (grades 6-8, 1932), Ella J. Wilson (grades 3-5)
1932-1933	Frances Lucille Fox (grades 1-3), Wilhelmine Malcolmson (grades 9-10), Evelyn May Smith (grades 4-5), Howard Reginald Standing (grades 11-12), Ida Elena Waines (grades 6-8)
1933-1934	Frances Lucille Fox (grades 1-2), Wilhelmine Malcolmson (grades 9-10), Evelyn May Smith (grades 3-5), Howard Reginald Standing (grades 11-12), Ida Elena Waines (grades 6-8)
1934-1935	Frances Lucille Fox (grades 1-3), Wilhelmine Malcolmson (grades 9-10), Evelyn May Smith (grades 4-6), John Edward Lysecki (grades 11-12), Ida Elena Waines (grades 7-8)
1935-1936	Ena Enid Eldred (grades 4-6), John Edward Lysecki (grades 11-12), Kathleen Ina Rodgers (grades 9-10), Velma Elizabeth Sando (grades 1-3), Ida Elena Waines (grades 7-8)
1936-1937	Ena Enid Eldred (grades 4-6), John Edward Lysecki (grades 11-12), Roberta Elizabeth McDougall (grades 7-8), Kathleen Ina Rodgers (grades 9-10), Velma Elizabeth Sando (grades 1-3)
1937-1938	Ena Enid Eldred (grades 4-6), John Edward Lysecki (grades 11-12), James Kenneth MacKay (grades 7-8), Kathleen Ina Rodgers (grades 9-10), Velma Elizabeth Sando (grades 1-3)
1938-1939	Ruth Elaine Dobson (grades 4-6), Alexander Burnett Lowe (grades 7-8), Roberta Elizabeth McDougall (grades 7-8), Robert Stanley “Stan” McGill (grades 11-12), Velma Elizabeth Sando (grades 1-3)
1939-1940	Norma Kathleen Gordon (grades 4-6), Roberta Elizabeth McDougall (grades 9-10), James Cameron Martin (grades 11-12), Velma Elizabeth Sando (grades 1-3), Florence Anne Simpson (grades 7-8)
1940-1941	Norma Kathleen Gordon (grades 4-6, 1940), James Cameron Martin (grades 11-12), Doris Muriel Reid (grades 4-6), Velma Elizabeth Sando (grades 1-3), Verlie Turner (grades 9-10), Mina Elaine Wardrop (grades 7-8)
1941-1942	M. H. Abbott (grades 4-6, 1942), Norris George Aitken (grades 7-8, 1942), Florence Isabelle Houston (grades 4-6, 1942), James Cameron Martin (grades 11-12), Doris Muriel Reid (grades 4-6, 1941), Velma Elizabeth Sando (grades 1-3), Verlie Turner (grades 9-10), Mina Elaine Wardrop (grades 7-8, 1941)
1942-1943	Florence Isabelle Houston (grades 7-8), Rosemary McRuer (grades 4-6), Frances Irene Tufts (grades 1-3, 1942), Verlie Turner (grades 9-10), Benjamin Pope (grades 11-12), Luleice? Wall (grades 1-3, 1943)
1943-1944	Ada Miriam Barclay (grades 7-8), Peter Henry Funk (grades 11-12, 1944), Joseph Joubert (grades 11-12, 1943), Rosemary McRuer (grades 4-6), Verlie Turner (grades 9-10), Anna Marion “Annie” Wright (grades 1-3)
1944-1945	Ada Miriam Barclay (grades 7-8), Alberta Farler (grades 9-10), Peter Henry Funk (grades 11-12), Rosemary McRuer (grades 4-6), Anna Marion “Annie” Wright (grades 1-3)
1945-1946	Ada Miriam Barclay (grades 7-8), Alberta Farler (grades 9-10), Peter Henry Funk (grades 11-12), Clifford Delbert Hall (grades 3-6, 1946), Rosemary McRuer (grades 3-6, 1945), Anna Marion “Annie” Wright (grades 1-2)
1946-1947	Ada Miriam Barclay (grades 7-8), James Weir Cowan (grades 11-12), Doris Goplin (grades 9-10), Clifford Delbert Hall (grades 4-6), Anna Marion “Annie” Wright (grades 1-3)
1947-1948	Ada Miriam Barclay (grades 7-8), James Weir Cowan (grades 11-12), Silogean? Mae Frid (grades 9-10), Clifford Delbert Hall (grades 4-6), Margaret Millicent Lord (grades 1-3)
1948-1949	Leonard Abraham Floyde (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 7-8), Clifford Delbert Hall (grades 4-6), William Robert Johnson (grades 9-10), Vida Gordon McCutcheon (grades 1-3)
1949-1950	Leonard Abraham Floyde (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 6-8), Clifford Delbert Hall (grades 3-5), William Robert Johnson (grades 9-10), Vida Gordon McCutcheon (grades 1-2)
1950-1951	Barbara I. Dean (grades 9-10, 1950), Leonard Abraham Floyde (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 6-8), Clifford Delbert Hall (grades 3-5), Andrew George Kuzyk (grades 9-10, 1951), Vida Gordon McCutcheon (grades 1-2)
1951-1952	Leonard Abraham Floyde (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 6-8), Clifford Delbert Hall (grades 3-5), Vida Gordon McCutcheon (grades 1-2), Bernice Emma Violet Olmstead (grades 9-10)
1952-1953	Mildred Eileen Barcley (grades 3-5), Leonard Abraham Floyde (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 9-10), Sylvia Susanne Lee (grades 6-8), Elaine Berniece Meech (grades 1-2)
1953-1954	Mildred Eileen Barcley (grades 3-5), Leonard Abraham Floyde (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 9-10), Sylvia Susanne Lee (grades 6-8), Elaine Berniece Meech (grades 1-3)
1954-1955	Mildred Eileen Barcley (grades 4-5), Elaine Berniece Meech Cockerill (grades 1-3), Leonard Abraham Floyde (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 9-10), Sylvia Susanne Lee (grades 6-8)
1955-1956	Elaine Berniece Meech Cockerill (grades 1-3), James Austin Delgaty (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 9-10), Mary Anne Parker (grades 4-6), Anne Sum (grades 7-8)
1956-1957	Elaine Berniece Meech Cockerill (grades 1-3), James Austin Delgaty (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 9-10), Mary Anne Parker (grades 4-5), Anne Sum (grades 6-8)
1957-1958	Margaret Rose “Marnie” Barkley (grades 4-6), Elaine Berniece Meech Cockerill (grades 1-3), James Austin Delgaty (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 9-10), Ruth Helen McKee (grades 7-8)
1958-1959	Margaret Rose “Marnie” Barkley (grades 4-6), Elaine Berniece Meech Cockerill (grades 1-3), James Austin Delgaty (grades 11-12), Ada Miriam Barclay Hall (grades 9-10, 1958), Roberta E. McKay (grades 9-10, 1959), Ruth Helen McKee (grades 7-8)
1959-1960	Margaret Rose “Marnie” Barkley (grades 3-5), Elaine Berniece Meech Cockerill (grades 1-2), James Austin Delgaty (grades 11-12), William M. Ingram (grade 9, 1960), Verlie Junkin (grade 10), Dorothy Meadmore (grades 6-8), Robert A. Robbie (grade 9)
1960-1961	Margaret Rose “Marnie” Barkley (grades 3-5), James Austin Delgaty (grade 12), Mildred Eileen Grills (grades 6-8), Verlie Junkin (grade 11), Margaret Joyce Linton (grades 1-2), Robert Andrew Robbie (grade 9), Alex Sabeski (grade 10)
1961-1962	Margaret Rose Barkley “Marnie” Erb (grades 5-6), Mildred Eileen Grills (grades 7-8), Margaret Joyce Linton (grades 1-2), ? (grade 3-4)
1962-1963	Barbara Diane Darling (grades 1-2), David Garth McIntyre (grades 7-8), Alice Roberta McCartney (grades 5-6), Clifford Ronald Wilde (grades 3-4)
1963-1964	Alice Roberta McCartney Cairns (grades 5-6), Barbara Diane Darling (grades 1-2), William Sanford Kirbyson (grades 7-8), Delores Margaret Simonson (grades 3-4)
1964-1965	Barbara Ethel May Armstrong (grades 3-4), John Guthrie “Jack” Forsyth (grades 7-8), Marilyn Carroll Gibbons (grades 1-2), Marlene Mary Louise Mutch (grades 5-6)
1965-1966	Barbara Ethel May Armstrong (grades 2-4), John Guthrie “Jack” Forsyth (grades 7-8), Marilyn Carroll Gibbons (grades 1-2), Marlene Mary Louise Mutch (grades 5-6)
1966-1967	Beverley Pearl Bestland (grade 2), John Guthrie “Jack” Forsyth (grades 7-8), Lois Anne Hill (grade 1), Marlene Mary Louise Mutch (grades 5-6), Sandra Rae Oakes (grades 3-4)
1967-1968	Gloria Louise Borczuch (grades 5-6), Beverley Pearl Bestland (grade 2), John Guthrie “Jack” Forsyth (grades 7-8), Lois Anne Hill (grade 1), Sandra Rae Oakes (grades 3-4)
1968-1969	Beverley Pearl Bestland Bossuyt (grade 4), Heather Marie Boughen (no grade), John Guthrie “Jack” Forsyth (grades 7-8), Ruth Vivian Gooley (grades 2-3), Mina Johnson (special education), Dawn Serene Rudge (grades 1-2), Terence Lewis Rudge (grades 5-6)
1969-1970	Garry Kendall Anderson (grade 6), Elfrieda Bergen (grades 1-3), Willis Russel Doherty (grade 7), John Guthrie “Jack” Forsyth (grade 8), Carolyn Cheryl De Franceschi (grades 4-5), Mina Johnson (special education), Karen Jean Magarrell (grades 1-2)

Among the other teachers of Sanford School was W. A. Toews.

Photos & Coordinates

Sanford Elementary School (October 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, File 7a Sanford. Sanford School commemorative monument (June 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Sanford School commemorative monument (June 2023) Source: Rose Kuzina Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.68075, W97.44271 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Organization: Morris-Macdonald School Division School District No. 19

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morris-Macdonald Collegiate, Sanford / Sanford Collegiate (Sanford, RM of Macdonald)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ashland School (170 Ashland Avenue, Winnipeg)

Sources:

“Tenders for Sanford School,” Manitoba Free Press, 4 June 1914, page 2.

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Marriage registrations [Vietta Helen Clement, Margaret Pearl Clement], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

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.

Sanford-Ferndale, 1871-1987 by Sanford-Ferndale History Committee, 1989.

Obituary [Ada Miriam (Barclay) Hall], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 June 1997, page D6.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Ashland School District No. 86 Daily Registers, GR0638, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Sanford School District No. 86 Daily Registers, GR0638, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, Schools in Manitoba - Volume 2, Sanford Consolidated School - File 7a, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.

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

Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Derryl Hall and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 15 September 2023

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