This monument in the Municipality of Souris-Glenwood, unveiled on 14 August 1994, commemorates Whitefield School No. 473, Whitefield Church, and Whitefield & Breezelawn Community Hall.
The Whitefield School District was established formally in August 1886 and a school was built at NW32-7-22W, about 400 meters south of this site. The district began classroom operation in 1890 and closed in 1947, whereafter the building was moved to Hartney in 1956 to serve as a private residence.
Among the teachers at Whitefield School were A. E Hetherington? (Fall 1890), Archibald Purdon (Spring-Fall 1891), Rachel Little (Spring-Fall 1892), Hugh Cowan (Spring - pt Fall 1893), Angus? C. Robertson (pt Fall 1893 - pt Fall 1894), Grace A. C. Gordon (pt Fall 1894 - Spring 1896), Helen M. McPherson (Fall 1896 - Spring 1897), [T/Q?] P. Hodnett (Fall 1897 - pt Fall 1898), Stuart McPherson [MacPherson?] (pt Fall 1898 - Spring 1899), Jennie M. Drummond (Fall 1899 - Spring 1900), Grace Simpson (Fall 1900), Edith Mayers (Spring-Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Mary Camerson (Spring 1905), Maude M. Stirling (Fall 1905 - Spring 1906), Grace M. Haney (Fall 1906 - Fall 1907), Winnifred Fraser (Spring 1908), Olga Donaldson (Fall 1908), Lottie J. Chapman (pt Spring 1909), Chris Cochlan (pt Spring 1909), Annie? McManes? (Fall 1909), Mary E. Johnston (Spring 1910 - Fall 1912), Ellen L. King (Spring 1913 - Fall 1914), Margaret J. Patterson (Spring 1915 - Fall 1916), and Edith May Good (1930s).
Whitefield Church was located at NE29-7-22W, about one mile (1.6 km) east and one mile (1.6 km) south of this site. It had been moved here in 1910 from a site three miles (4.8 km) away, known as Menteith Church. The building was sold to the Masonic Lodge at Griswold in 1943.
The Whitefield & Breezelawn Community Hall had been a garage at Hartney until 1937, when the building was brought to a site at SE32-7-22W to serve as a hall. It was later moved to NW33-7-22W before being sold to a local farmer in 1960.
Whitefield School (no date) by A. J. Hatcher
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 66.
Whitefield commemorative monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Whitefield commemorative monument (September 2021)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.62039, W100.43977
denoted by symbol on the map above
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
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.
Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques and Manitoba Community Commemorative Plaques, Fiscal Year 1994-1995, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship, page 44.
We thank Sandra Garvie and George Penner for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 9 December 2025
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