Historic Sites of Manitoba: Edington School No. 933 (Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne)

The Edington School District was formally established in March 1898, named for an early pioneer family, and a one-room schoolhouse was erected at this site in what is now the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne. The school closed in 1955 and its catchment area was dissolved in January 1967. The former school building was moved to Plumas and converted into a garage.

Among the teachers of Edington School were M. Edith McLaughlin (1906-1909), Lilian E. Lamb (1910), Mabel C. Andrews (1911), Louise A. Foreman (1912), Grace Nevill (1912-1913), Margaret Johnson (1913), William Makle Pecover (1913-1915), Florence Beam (1916), G. O‘Connor (1916), Isabella A. Sutherland (1916), Clara E. Fletcher (1917), Bessie M. Finck (1917), Mildred L. Merrick (1917-1918), Lillian Arnold (1918-1919), Archibald McMurchy (1919-1920), Robert C. McMurchy (1920), F. S. Chisholm (1921), Elizabeth M. Gair (1921), Evelyn M. Rogers (1921-1922), William James McLaughlin (1922-1930), Rhoda E. Wilkinson (1930-1931), Margaret E. McLaughlin (1932-1933), Ross Addison Smith (1935-1939), Victor Charles Armstrong (1939-1941), E. Jean Jackson (1941), Sylvia McLean (1941-1942), Catherine Jean MacDougall (1942-1943), Dorothy Myrtle Boyd (1943-1944), Genevieve Elizabeth McClelland (1944-1945), Margaret Jean Lowry (1945), Ruth Sophia Seekings (1945-1946), Mabel Adelaide Butler (1945-1947), Eleanor Gladys Alguire (1947-1949), Glenn Robert Charles (1949), Patrick J. Ollenberger (1949-1950), Douglas Gunn (1950-1951), Vivian Lillee (1951), Carol Koroliuk (1951), Verna Edith Coray Carlson (1952-1953), Lena Rempel (1953), Lynne Bird (1953-1954), and Waldermar Rempel (1954-1955).

Edington School (no date) by C. K. Rogers Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 25. Edington School commemorative monument (August 2011) Source: Allan Drysdale Edington School commemorative monument (May 2022) Source: Rose Kuzina Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.41769, W99.16821 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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 School Records Collection, Edington School District No. 933 Daily Registers, GR3152, Archives of Manitoba.

Browsing Through the Years: Plumas and District, 1876-1976 by Plumas and District History Committee, 1976, page 39.

This page was prepared by Allan Drysdale, Gordon Goldsborough, Rose Kuzina, and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 11 August 2023

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