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The Solsgirth School District was established formally in July 1885 and a school building was erected in Solsgirth, in what is now the Municipality of Prairie View. It became Solsgirth Consolidated School when it was consolidated with Hope School No. 1579 in November 1911. Other rural schools joined it as they closed in the late 1950s: Dowsford School No. 190 and Ekford School No. 1135. The school became part of the Birdtail River School Division in 1968, later closing. The present building is now used for storage.
Period
Principal
1914-1915
Lena Alexandra Waddell Kippan (1881-1964)
1915-1918
Mrs. Helen E. Hall
1918-1919
A. Creasy
1919-1920
?
1920-1921
S. E. McDowell
1921-1930
Arni Kristinson (1883-1969)
1930-1933
Halldor Jonsson Stefansson (1898-1983)
1933-1937
Clarence Eric Tibbatts (1904-1979)
1937-1940
William Charles “Charlie” Rhind (1904-1982)
1940-1942
?
1942-1945
Elizabeth Johannovna Penner (1909-2002)
1945-1950
?
1950-1952
A. Huebner
1952-1956
Dalton J. Burke
1956-1957
?
1957-1959
H. B. Weinmaster
1959-1962
Wally Humenuik
Among the other teachers of Solsgirth School were Ellen Elizabeth Wherrett and Helen Margaret Murchie Dickie.
Solsgirth School, primary building (no date) by G. W. Bartlett
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 64.
Solsgirth School, intermediate building (no date) by G. W. Bartlett
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 64.
The metal sign for the former Solsgirth School (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Solsgirth School building (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the former Solsgirth School building (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.48618, W100.91422
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Obituary [Helen Margaret Dickie], Shoal Lake Star, 18 May 1993, page 11.
We thank Malcolm Bell and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 3 August 2024
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