Historic Sites of Manitoba: Carman School No. 176 (Third Avenue SW, Carman)

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The Carman School District was formally established in June 1884 in the Town of Carman. The original school building, measuring 18 feet by 24 feet, was situated on Fournier Avenue in the south end of town. By 1890, the school was overcrowded so the School Board purchased 16 lots along the west side of Villard Avenue and built a two-storey frame school building there. In 1901, an additional four-room building was added to the site.

The school burned down on 10 October 1901 so the next year, a white-brick replacement was designed by Winnipeg architect Charles Henry Wheeler and built facing Third Avenue SW by the Brandon firm of Harrington and Newte, at a cost of about $26,000. It featured four classrooms on each of two main floors, and an assembly hall in the third floor attic. The school was opened officially in December 1902.

Around 1950, a one-storey elementary schoo building was constructed beside the brick school. In January 1955, the district became Carman Consolidated School with its consolidation with a pair of rural schools: Central School No. 944 and Ostrander School No. 113. Both buildings were demolished around 1961, even though the brick school was still determined to be structurally sound, and were replaced by the present building.

Principals

Period	Principal
1898-1899	William Christopher Hartley (1869-1936)
1899-1900	Richard W. Craig (1877-1966)
1900-1904	William Nelson Denike (1871-1948)
1904-1905	David Williamson Yuill (1878-1970)
1905-1907	James Humphrey Plewes (1873-1963)
1908-1920	Norman Benson Tufts (1875-1921)
1920-1921	Alfred William Muldrew (1889-1976)
1921-1922	W. C. Jones
1922-1923	Hazel I. Michael
1923-1925	Clifford Knox Rogers (1889-1968)
1925-1926	Duncan Scott McIntyre (1899-1975)
1926-1927	Albert Hill (1882-1941)
1927-1928	George Hindle
1928-1929	Edgar Burgess (1867-1954)
1929-1931	Hugh Francis Reed (1874-1932)
1931-1936	Arthur Kendall Stratton (1895-1961)
1936-1938	Arthur Franklin Kerr (1904-1987)
1938-1940	William S. Patterson
1940-1941	Richard J. Wolfe
1941-1951	James Alvin Leslie (?-1973)
1951-1957	Arthur Kendall Stratton (1895-1961)
1957-1958	C. E. Johnson
1958-1961	Alexander John Wilson (1913-1991)
1961-1963	Celine A. Houde
1963-1964	Joseph Watson Kachor (1923-1985)
1964-1973	Frank Lorne McKinnon (1934-2015)

Teachers

Among the other teachers who worked at Carman School were Alfred James Bell, Dorothy Irene Madill Hudson, Daisy Gordon, and W. A. Toews.

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of Carman School (circa 1906) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2012-0160 Postcard view of Carman School (circa 1908) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2011-0088 Postcard view of Carman School (circa 1911) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2012-0170 Postcard view of Carman School (circa 1913) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0024 Postcard view of Carman School (no date) by Charles I. Meyers Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 61. Postcard view of Carman School (no date) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2015-0099 Name stone from the former Carman School, now located at the Dufferin Historical Society Museum (June 2013) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.50377, W98.00507 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

“Building and real estate,” Manitoba Free Press, 5 April 1902, page 6.

“Carman school opened,” Manitoba Free Press, 8 December 1902, page 8.

“Carman, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, October 1916, 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.

School Bells & Honey Pails: A GPS Tour of Local Country Schools, Dufferin Historical Museum, circa 2011, 74 pages.

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 25 June 2023

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