Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elgin Consolidated School No. 153 (Elgin, Municipality of Grassland)

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The Elgin School District was organized around 1884 at Elgin in what is now the Municipality of Grassland. In 1912, Elgin Consolidated School was formed by its consolidation with Alice School No. 153, Gilead School No. 565, Maguire School No. 1073, and Millerway School No. 250. Other schools joined through the years, including Crown School No. 184 (1930), Croll School No. 1929 (1959), Barber School No. 423 (1962), West Hall School No. 550 (1964), and Fairfax Consolidated School No. 1195 (1966).

The building closed in 1951 and was replaced by a new structure. The school closed in 1986 and a monument, dedicated in July 1988 at N49.44427, W100.27048, commemorates it.

Principals

Period	Principal
1907-1914	George Herbert Robertson (1876-?)
1914-1915	William C. McKee
1915-1917	Neil Albert McIntyre (1888-1972)
1917-1923	William John Robinson (1882-1947)
1923-1924	George Gordon Grigg (1887-1969)
1924-1925	Arthur Victor Pigott (1900-1987)
1925-1927	Percival Beresford Bennett (1884-1954)
1927-1929	Edward Arthur Bathgate [Batke] (1887-1961)
1929-1931	George Edward Whitlaw (1904-1996)
1931-1934	Barney Thordarson (1904-1974)
1934-1937	Howard Reginald Standing (1899-1994)
1937-1941	Howard Melville Dunfield (1912-2000)
1941-1943	Edith E. Nelson
1943-1944	Tena H. McDonald
1944-1947	Walter Thorvaldur Fredrickson (1907-1974)
1947-1950	Hilton Clarence Harper (1914-2005)
1950-1954	Harold Albert Mouritsen (1917-1969)
1954-1955	Frank P. Giesbrecht
1955-1956	D. K. Hunter
1956-1959	Robert Leslie McIntosh (1925-2011)
1959-1964	A. B. Haigh
1964-1965	Marc Brown
1965-1966	E. M. Shwoluk

Teachers

Among the teachers who worked at Elgin School through the years was Frederick Leopold Johnston.

Photos & Coordinates

Elgin School No. 153 that, in 1912, became Elgin Consolidated School (circa 1908) Source: Education Department Report, 1908, Manitoba Legislative Library. Elgin School (no date) by W. J. Parr Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 53. Victoria Day celebrations at Elgin School (1920s) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2014-0324 Elgin School commemorative monument at N49.44427, W100.27048 (August 2010) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.44849, W100.26902 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elgin School No. 318 (RM of Yellowhead)

Sources:

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

“Elgin, Man”, Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 27 September 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.

We thank Bobbi Jo Panciera and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 19 May 2023

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