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This area was originally within the catchment of the Emerson School District which operated a second educational facility known as either West Emerson School or West Lynne School in the community of West Lynne across the Red River from Emerson, in what is now the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin.
In 1883, following the amalgamation of the Town of West Lynne with the Town of Emerson (to create the City of Emerson), plans called for a new schoolhouse, worth up to $7,000, to be built in West Lynne, as to provide a local school on par with the existing structure in Emerson. Unsatisfied with progress and conditions related to local education, West Lynne ratepayers within from the Emerson School District to formally establish the West Lynne School District during the first half of 1887. This new district operated until around summer of 1889, after which the district ceased to provide its own classroom instruction. Limited records suggest the district was dissolved, with its catchment and scool returning to the Emerson School District by the 1890s. Local students within West Lynne then attended West Lynne School / West Emerson School within the Emerson School Disitrict, with the school hosting classes for grades one though as high as six, with senior grades held at Emerson School.
West Emerson School closed on 21 December 1939 and did not reopen, with all pupils transferring over to Emerson School.
See Emerson School.
Among the teachers of West Lynne School / West Emerson School were Harry [N?] P. Hill (October 1880 - July 1881), ? (Fall 1881 - Spring 1882), Ambrose William Stock (Fall 1882, Spring 1885; of Ambrose Stock House), ? (Spring 1883 - Fall 1884), did not operate due to financial hardship (August 1885 - May 1886), James A. Badgley (May-June 1886, Fall 1886 - Fall 1888), John C. Bell (Spring 1889), undetermined (Fall 1889 - Spring 1891), Eva E. Morrison (Fall 1891, later married S. R. Root), undetermined (Spring 1892 - Fall 1893), Ambrose William Stock (Spring-Fall 1894), George E. Bruce, (Spring 1895 - Spring 1896), Archie W. Healy (Fall 1896 - Fall 1897), undetermined (Spring 1898 - Fall 1909), Alice Cuthbert (January-June 1910), Mae Asselstine (September-December 1910), undetermined (Spring-Fall 1911), Margaret Connell (January-June 1912), Lucie M. E. Oatway (Fall 1912 - Spring 1913), and undetermined (Fall 1913 - Spring 1914). For teachers within the above undetermined ranges between 1881 and Spring 1914, refer to the full staff listings of the Emerson School District.
The remaining teachers from 1914-1939 were Jessie McIntyre (Fall 1914), G. N. Nelson (January-? 1915), Anabelle E. McMillan (?-June 1915), Ethel Empey (Fall 1915 - Spring 1918), Gladys M. C. Ramsay (Fall 1918 - Spring 1920), Ella Sophia Zinck (Fall 1920 - Spring 1921), Pauline H. Norman (Fall 1921 - Spring 1923), Rita C. Wood (Fall 1923 - Spring 1925), Rita C. Wood (Fall 1925 - Spring 1926), Jennie Ellen Kerr (Fall 1926 - Spring 1927), Norma Jessie Miller (Fall 1927 - Spring 1929), Edith Mae Hutchinson (Fall 1929 - Spring 1930), Lena May Adams (Fall 1930 - Spring 1933), Margaret Mary Keough (Fall 1933 - Spring 1935), Irene Elizabeth Church (Fall 1935 - Spring 1938), and Isobel Ferguson Broadfoot (Fall 1938 - Fall 1939).
West Lynne School commemorative monument (August 2010)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.00400, W97.22753
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: West Lynne Town Site (Emerson, Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: East Lynne School No. 1180 (Municipality of Boissevain-Morton)
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), West Lynne School District No. 495, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Original Bills (LA 0010), Bill 74 - An Act to Incorporate the two Towns of Emerson and West Lynne into one Municipal Corporation under the name of the City of Emerson, GR0207, Archives of Manitoba.
1881 Canada census, Library and Archives Canada.
“H. N. Hill, teacher of public school [...],” West Lynne Southern Manitoba Times, 20 November 1880, page 3.
“West Lynne,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 24 November 1882, page 2.
“West Lynne,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 4 December 1882, page 2.
“Union is strength,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 23 May 1883, page 8.
“City and country [A meeting of the people of West Lynne...],” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 21 May 1892, page 6.
“Cricket,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 9 July 1892, page 3.
“The Provencher polls [No. 25 ...],” Winnipeg Daily Tribune, 15 October 1900, page 7.
“Teacher wanted by Emerson School [...],” Manitoba Free Press, 20 July 1920, page 16.
History of Emerson: featuring historical sketches of surrounding districts, by William K. Carlson and Mrs. Masterson, Emerson Women’s Institute [Emerson Journal], 1950. [Manitoba Legislative Library F 5649 .E54 His].
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.
“History of West Lynne School - S.D. No. 459 (1880-1939)” by Lillian Florkosky Empson, Rural School Reunion, July 1994: Aux Marais, Dufferin, Manchester, Post Road, Stockport, West Lynne by the School Reunion Committee, 1994.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 August 2024
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