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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Sight Hill School No. 563 (RM of North Norfolk)Sight Hill School District was formally established in December 1888, in the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk. The first one-room frame school building was erected in 1890, in the southeast quarter of 4-11-1 west of the Principal Meridian, on land donated by farmer James Leckie, who also named the school. Replaced in 1954 with another one-room frame structure, it served as a site for meetings, recreational activities, and community picnics. The school closed in June 1968 and the district was merged into Pine Creek School Division. This cairn was dedicated at a ceremony on 30 June 1991. The teachers who worked at Sight Hill School included: Mary E. Allen (1894), Nellie Collier (1895), M. L. Pickering (1896), A. E. Moore (1897), Alexander Irvine (1898), James Elston (1898-1901), May Collier (1905-1907), Arabella Maxwell (1906), Daisy B. Tingley (1908), Gertrude Campbell (1908-1909), John J. Murphy (1910), Matilda E. Armstrong (1901-1911), Bertha Collier (1911-1913), Irene O. Morris (1913-1914), Mildred Olga Boddy (1915-1917), Letitia C. Gair (1917), Edith Gair (1918), Mildred Merrick (1918-1919), Isabel McGregor (1919), Eleanor Nichols (1919-1921), Florence McKellop (1921-1923), Gertrude A. Crowe (1923), Annie F. McKillop (1924-1925), Mary C. Campbell (1925-1926), Mary I. Morris (1926-1928), Kathleen M. Robinson (1928-1930), Margaret E. McKinnon (1930-1931), Dorothy Elizabeth Hunter (1931-1934), Margaret F. Donald (1934-1936), Barbara Iris Campbell (1936-1940), Irene Elizabeth Brown (1940-1942), Claire Margaret Allison (1942-1943), Della Gwendolyn Billings (1943-1944), M. Myrtle Dennison (1944-1945), Ruth May Lewarne (1945-1946), Grace E. Pattinson (1946-1947), A. Sametz (1948), Florence L. Sims (1948-1949), Isobel Lepesko (1949-1950), Ruth Zertsee (1950), Ritz J. Zertner (1951), Inez E. Bray (1951-1952), Colleen A. Johnston (1952-1953), Susan I. Godfrey (1953-1954), Shirley M. Anderson (1954-1955), Barbara V. Lamb (1955-1958), Myrtle H. Byram (1958-1961), Margaret L. Leland (1961-1963), Sharon G. Wilks (1963-1964), E. Diane Todd (1964).
Sources:A Rear View Mirror: A History of the Austin and Surrounding Districts by Anne M. Collier, Altona: Friesen Printing, 1967. 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. Through Fields and Dreams: A History of the Rural Municipality of North Norfolk and MacGregor by The History Book Committee of the North Norfolk-MacGregor Archives, 1998, page 1165. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 13 June 2013 Back to top of page |
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