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The West Treherne School District was organized formally in March 1888 and a school building was erected in Treherne, in what is now the Municipality of Norfolk Treherne. In 1891, it was replaced by a two-storey wood structure then, in 1906, by a two-storey, brick building designed by Winnipeg architect Samuel Hooper, near the site of the Treherne Cenotaph. This building was destroyed by fire on 17 June 1958.
The school fire led to renewed consideration of school consolidation, and local electors subsequently approved amalgamation of their district with several from the surrounding countryside: Louise School No. 116, East Treherne School No. 298, Cassandra School No. 445, Centreville School No. 606, Boyne Creek School No. 620, Wilson Glen School No. 713, Arbroath School No. 796, McCreery School No. 797, Pinkerton School No. 1074, and Matchettville School No. 1342. While a new school building was constructed, classes were held at various places around Treherne, including the Masonic Hall, Legion Hall, Fumerton’s Hall, old post office building, and the old movie hall. Later, the building of Cassandra School was moved into town and used as a classroom. The new school opened in September 1962.
Period
Principal
1898-1899
Ezra Hamilton (1864-1931)
1899-1903
James Willard McNab [McNabb] (1875-1954)
1903-1907
A. L. McLean
1907-1908
John Willson Morrison (1883-1948)
1908-1909
Frederick James Ney (1884-1973)
1909-1910
Robert McKay Stevenson (1882-1970)
1910-1912
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1912-1913
Fred W. Harrison
1913-1914
Merodach Green
1914-1916
Jesse Carlyle French (1876-1958)
1916-1920
Annie M. McIntosh
1920-1921
Alfred James Struthers (1889-1979)
1921-1923
Annie M. McIntosh
1923-1924
John Alexius Peterson (1885-1959)
1924-1925
Jesse Carlyle French (1876-1958)
1925-1926
Maurice Sanger
1926-1927
Harvey Richard Brown (1895-1962)
1927-1929
Martin Kavanagh (1895-1987)
1929-1935
George Archibald Coulthard (1890-1964)
1935-1943
Victor Harvey Hugo (1888-1972)
1944-1946
John Gilbank Anderson (1912-2003)
1946-1947
John Clayton Stewart (1906-1990)
1947-1948
John Osborn Wilson (1900-1972)
1948-1955
Maxwell Addison Parker (1912-2004)
1955-1956
James F. Hunter
1956-1965
M. A. Parker
1965-1967
R. V. Johnson
1967-1972
David Wallace Shaw (1932-2008)
1972-1973
R. Vandenberghe
Some of the teachers who taught at West Treherne School were George B. Wilson, Dorothy Irene Madill Hudson, Maurice Alfred Decosse, and Olive Lillian Mills.
West Treherne School (circa 1908)
Source: Education Department Report, 1908, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Postcard view of West Treherne School (1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company
Source: Andrew Cunningham
Postcard view of the second West Treherne School, used from 1906 to 1958 (no date)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0075Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.62685, W98.69737
denoted by symbol on the map above
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Tiger Hills to the Assiniboine: A History of Treherne and Surrounding District by Treherne Area History Committee, 1976, pages 38-40.
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.
We thank Andrew Cunningham, the office staff of the RM of South Norfolk, and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 23 May 2024
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