Historic Sites of Manitoba: Tamarisk School No. 847 (Municipality of Grandview)

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The Tamarisk School District was established formally in December 1894. A school building operated on the southwest quarter of 29-24-23 west of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Grandview. The present school building, dating from 1909 based on a Hooper #2 design, closed in 1967 when it joined the Intermountain School Division. The building is still present at the site, maintained by a local group. In 1995, it became a municipally-designated historic site.

Principals

Period	Principal
1942-1948	Rene Allen Ollivier (?-1982)
1948-1950	P. G. Kehler
1950-1954	M. Kotyluk
1954-1957	A. Korzeniowski
1957-1958	M. E. Harrison
1958-1960	J. Tysarski

Teachers

Among the teachers who worked at Tamarisk School were Montague Shore (1895), Albert Ormiston (1896), Richard W. Craig (1897), Albert J. Hatcher (1898), Gertrude Wood (1899-1900), Hugh A. Laughlin (1901), Margaret M. Fortune (1901), Patricia Samson (1902), J. N. Murphy (1903), E. A. More (1904), Margaret Evans (1905-1906), James I. Morkin (1906-1908), Jacob Arbuckle (1909), Bertha Morrison (1909), George L. Dibblee (1909-1910), E. F. Westerman (1910), Christina Cormack (1911-1912), D. McQuarrie (1912), H. Jonson (1913-1914), P. F. Kearns (1914-1915), A. E. Harris (1914-1915), Murial Brigham (1914-1916), J. M. Sutherland (1916-1917), Mrs. B. Ridyard (1916-1917), V. M. Stairs (1917-1918), Roberta A. Anderson (1917-1922), Phoebe Anderson (1918-1921), Ruby Mitchell (1921-1923, 1924-1925), Leon Leroy Nichols (1922-1923), Perry Bell (1922-1924), Ellen Effler (1923-1924), Thomas Wilbert Emerson (1924-1926), Lenore Denby (1926-1927), Alex Cummings (1927-1942), Murial Cameron (1927-1928), Sophia Cutforth (1928-1930), Lillian Martin (1929-1930), Edith Dunseath (1930-1934), Vera Storey (1934-1938), Kathleen Clay (1938-1940), Elizabeth Nash (1940-1942), Lorna L. Wilson (1942-1943), Doreen Basset (1943-1944), and Doris Shield (1944-1945).

Photos & Coordinates

Tamarisk School (no date) by H. L. Albright Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 10. The former Tamarisk School building (June 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough The former Tamarisk School building (November 2022) Source: George Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.09646, W100.67017 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites

Sources:

Fiftieth Anniversary: 1895-1945, Tamarisk School District, Grandview, Manitoba. [Gordon Goldsborough, 2019-0061]

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.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

Tamarisk School, SW 29-24-23W, Grandview area, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.

We thank George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 18 November 2022

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