Historic Sites of Manitoba: Tyndall School No. 568 (Tyndall, RM of Brokenhead)

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The Tyndall School District was organized formally in the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead, and a log school building was erected on Tyndall’s Main Street in February 1889. Classes commenced with 24 students under the supervision of teacher John Walker. Increasing enrollment necessitated the construction of a two-storey, two-classroom stone building in 1905, which was used until 1914 when a larger, six-room school was built. This structure was destroyed by fire on 27 September 1958.

Its replacement, a four-classroom structure that became the fourth Tyndall School, was built in 1959 on a design by the Winnipeg architectural firm of Ward and Macdonald. With school consolidation in 1966, classes in grades 4 to 6 were held here, while students in lower grades were bused to Garson and those in grades 7 to 12 went to Beausejour or Selkirk.

Principals

Period

Principal

1906

Helen M. Tracy

1906-1907

Lillian M. Morris

1908-1909

Thomas Clement Jerrom (1871-1958)

1910-1911

Clifford Knox Rogers (1889-1968)

1911

Leslie Ernest Grace (1881-1954)

1912-1913

J. W. Alexander

1913-1914

Edgar Thomas Hegan Mackrell (1882-1968)

1914-1915

Alfred Blakely Gillespie (1870-1939)

1915-1917

Arthur Bailey (1885-?)

1917

Norman Ewart Brett (1881-1957)

1917-1918

L. C. Anderson (?-?)

1918-1922

Fred. A. Justice

1922-1924

Neil Albert McIntyre (1888-1972)

1924

John Erickson (?-?)

1924-1925

Manford George Gutzke (1896-1993)

1926

Leslie Ernest Grace (1881-1954)

1926-1930

Martha Ellen Hamilton Lough (1902-1970)

1930-1931

Thomas Patrick King (1873-1954)

1931-1933

Charles T. Cresswell (1872-1961)

1933-1934

Frederick Adam Hodgkinson (1912-2004)

1934-1936

Elzear Joseph Lavoie (1905-1938)

1936-1940

Norman Ernest Wright (1906-1957)

1940-1943

Alexander Maxwell “Max” Segall (1905-1983)

1943-1944

Bodvar Jon Skuli Bodvarson (1911-1972)

1944-1953

James Ogel Beckstead (1883-1985)

1953-1954

Eldon Irwin Isherwood (1920-1990)

1954-1955

T. E. Peterson

1955-1956

Morris Miroslaw Hryhor (1923-1987)

1956-1959

Ernest Lorne Moffat (1899-1982)

1959-1960

Elta Horn Atkins Borrowman Larson (1901-1993)

1960-1961

Guy Chauviere (1907-1992)

Teachers

Among the early teachers who worked at Tyndall School were John Walker (Spring-Fall 1890), Gertrude Potter (Spring 1891), Emma? McDonald (Fall 1891), Alex Gunn (Spring 1892), C. M. D. MacKinnon [McKinnon?] (Fall 1892 - Spring 1893, Spring-Fall 1894), F? H? Wimberley? (Fall 1893), Herbert Wadge (Spring - pt Fall 1895), Georgie A. Platt (pt Fall 1895), C. E. Huggard (Spring-Fall 1896), and James Thomas Cressey (Spring 1897 - Fall 1901).

Period

Teachers

1902

records unavailable

1903

records unavailable

1904

records unavailable

1905

R. J. McClelland (all grades)

1906

Jennie Lewis (junior grades), Lillian M. Morris (senior grades, Fall), Helen M. Tracy (senior grades, Spring)

1907

Jennie Lewis (junior grades), Lillian M. Morris (senior grades)

1908

Thomas Clement Jerrom (senior grades), Lilliam M. Morris (? grades, Spring), E. J. Millar (? grades, Spring), Grace E. Palmer (junior grades, Fall)

1909

Thomas Clement Jerrom (senior grades), Beatrice E? McColl (junior grades, Fall), Grace Palmer (junior grades, Spring)

1910

Varda M. Burtt (junior grades, Fall), Beatrice E? McColl (junior grades, Spring), Clifford Knox Rogers (senior grades)

1911

Varda M. Burtt (junior grades, Spring), Tena Comrie (junior grades, Fall), Leslie Ernest Grace (senior grades, Fall), Clifford Knox Rogers (senior grades, Spring)

1912

(Spring only): J. W. Alexander (senior grades), Tena Comrie (junior grades)

1912-1913

J. W. Alexander (senior grades), M. Downie (junior grades, Fall), Mary E. Kirkland (junior grades, Spring)

1913-1914

J. M. Baldwin (junior grades, Spring), Mary E. Kirkland (junior grades, Fall), Edgar Mackrell (senior grades)

1914-1915

Edith Cathers (? grades, Spring), Grace Clark (junior grades, Fall; ? grades, Spring), Alfred Blakely Gillespie (senior grades)

1915-1916

Arthur Bailey (grades 4-8), Reta Brown (grade 1, August-December), F. Aleta Finch (grades 2-3), Frances Ada Jones (grade 1, January-June)

1916-1917

Arthur Bailey (grades 4-9), Bessie Perkins (grades 2-3), Frances Ada Jones (grade 1)

1917-1918

L. C. Anderson (grades 5-9, October-June), Norman Ewart Brett (grades 5-9, August-October), Pauline Anita Neily (grades 1-2), B. Morden (grades 3-4, c. September - c. October), Lola Ida Simpson (grades 3-4, October-December), M. Swalwell (grades 3-4, August - c. September)

1918-1919

Cora J. Adams (grades 2-4), B. Dumply (grades 1-2, August-?), Hazel Joyce (grades 1-2, ?-December & January-June), Fred. A. Justice (grades 5-8)

1919-1920

Anne Booth (grades 1-2), Fred. A. Justice (grades 5-9), Hilda Kammrath (grades 2-4)

1920-1921

Doris Burt (grades 1-2), Kathleen Harner Collins (grades 2-4), Fred. A. Justice (grades 5-9)

1921-1922

Agnes S. [F?] Connolly (grades 2-3), Evelyn F. Doak (grade 1), Fred. A. Justice (grades 6-10), Ruby M. Steele (grades 4-5)

1922-1923

Agnes S. Connolly (grades 2-3), Evelyn F. Doak (grades 1-2), Neil Albert McIntyre (grades 6-9), Ruby M. Steele (grades 4-5)

1923-1924

Kathleen Sylvia Collins (grade 1, January-June), Anna D. Lackmance? (grades 2-3, August-December; grades 1-3, January-June), Neil Albert McIntyre (grades 6-9), Ruby M. Steele (grades 4-6, August-December; grades 3-6, January-June), Bertha Stevenson (grade 1, August-December)

1924-1925

Ida I. Claydon (grades 4-6), John Erickson (grades 7-10, September-November), Emily Goodchild (grades 1-2), Manford George Gutzke (grades 7-10, December-June), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-4)

1925-1926

Ida I. Claydon (grades 4-5), Emily Goodchild (grade 1), Leslie Ernest Grace (grades 6-10, January-June), Manford George Gutzke (grades 6-10, August-December), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-3)

1926-1927

Ida I. Claydon (grades 4-6), Audrey Easton (grade 1, January-June), Emily Goodchild (grade 1, August-December), Martha Ellen Hamilton (grades 8-11), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 1-3)

1927-1928

Audrey Easton (grade 1, wife of Ronald Victor Shearer), Kathleen Goodchild (grades 4-6), Martha Ellen Hamilton (grades 8-11), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-3)

1928-1929

Emily Goodchild (grades 1-2), Kathleen Goodchild (grades 4-6), Martha Ellen Hamilton (grades 8-11), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-3)

1929-1930

Emily Goodchild (grade 1), Kathleen Goodchild (grades 4-5, Fall; grades 4-6, Spring), Martha Ellen Hamilton (grades 9-11), Nevada Mattick [Matlick?]( grades 5-8), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-4; Fall; grades 2-3, Spring)

Other teachers who worked at Tyndall School were Alex Dunn (?-?), Mr. Miller (?-?), and Laura Thorarinson Armstrong (?-?).

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of the second Tyndall School building

Postcard view of the second Tyndall School building (1905)
Source: Andrew Cunningham

The second Tyndall School

The second Tyndall School (circa 1911)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspector Photos GR2664, C65.

Tyndall School and surroundings

Tyndall School and surroundings (circa 1927)
Source: Education Department Report, 1927, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Tyndall School

Tyndall School (1933)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7451, Album 18, Page 1.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.08619, W96.65769
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

“Tenders,” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 June 1959, page 45.

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.

Tyndall, Manitoba: 1893-1993 by Tyndall History Book Committee, Steinbach: Derksen Printers, 1993, pages 59-64.

Obituary [Laura Johanna Gudrun Thorarinson Armstrong], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 September 2013.

Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.

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

Board of Education meeting minutes and office files (A 0052), GR1622, Archives of Manitoba.

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

We thank Andrew Cunningham for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 10 October 2024

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