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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.
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 (1899-1988)
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)
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.
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 GoldsboroughSanford School commemorative monument (June 2023)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite 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)
“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: 17 November 2024
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