Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elm Creek Consolidated School No. 812 (Elm Creek, RM of Grey)

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The Elm Creek School District was established in May 1894 at Elm Creek, in the Rural Municipality of Grey. A school building was erected in 1905 on a design by Winnipeg architect Frank Robert Evans. In July 1918, it became Elm Creek Consolidated School when it merged with Castleton School No. 976, Dakota School No. 1056, Fairhall School No. 1923, Giltedge School No. 1678, Maplestead School No. 1090, Stapleton School No. 1882, Tracy School No. 1066, and Webster School No. 1919. It was later amalgamated into the Midland School Division. A monument, on the site of Elm Creek Consolidated School, was erected in 1992 for the Elm Creek centennial year and dedicated to the pioneers, teachers, and students of Elm Creek School.

Principals

Period	Principal
1904-1905	Washburn Van Dusen (1869-?)
1906	William Thompson Shipley (1870-1922)
1906-1909	Clifford Cornish (1880-1944)
1909-1911	Joseph Cooper Iliffe (1866-1937)
1911-1912	John Wesley Harris (1866-?)
1912-1917	James Corrigill (1857-1922)
1917-1919	Arthur Victor Balam Lamont (1887-1937)
1919-1923	George Patrick Stevens (c1888-1988)
1924	Ella M. Whitmore
1924-1925	John Blain Stewart (1882-?)
1925-1935	Eleanor Boyce (1898-1997)
1935-1938	John Alfred Hammond (1898-1988)
1938-1948	Maxwell Addison Parker (1912-2004)
1948-1952	Henry Royal Dwyer (1905-1996)
1952-1954	Robert Lloyd Hedley (1920-1982)
1954-1955	Henry Lambert Williams (1890-1976)
1955-1963	Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (1923-2011)
1963-1967	Laurel Edwin Shewchuk

Principals (High School)

Period	Principal
1963-1981	Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (1923-2011)

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1908-1909	Clifford Cornish (senior grades), Miss Maud Emes, Miss Raylene Huggins
1909-1910	Miss Maud Emes, Eva Hayward, Joseph Cooper Iliffe (senior grades)
1910-1911	Miss Tena Comrie (1910), Edith C. Dunbar (1911), Miss Lizzie B. Hiltz, Joseph Cooper Iliffe (senior grades)
1911-1912	Edith C. Dunbar, Miss Sara C. Frederickson, John Wesley Harris (senior grades)
1912-1913	Mrs. Ivy J. Blakely (grade 1, January-June), James Corrigill (senior grades), Annie R. Gall, Miss Ray? Gillespie (c.May-June), Miss E. A. Higgins (August-c.May), Miss E. F. Jamieson (grade 1, August-December)
1913-1914	Miss Alice Brownlow, James Corrigill (senior grades), Miss Dora Faryon, Miss Aleda Tupper
1914-1915	Miss Alice Brownlow, James Corrigill (senior grades), Miss Dora Faryon, Aleda Tupper (grades 1-2)
1915-1916	Miss Alice Brownlow, James Corrigill (senior grades), Miss Dora Faryon, Aleda Tupper
1916-1917	James Corrigill (senior grades), M. Dagg, A. M. Harrison, S. E. Forbes
1917-1918	E. Blanchard (pt.1918), M. Dagg (1917), Arthur Victor Balam Lamont (senior grades), A. Lavander (pt.1918), E. W. G. Mott (grades 1-2), M. E. Neilson (grades 1-2), Irene Thompson (pt.1918)
1918-1919	Arthur Victor Balam Lamont (senior grades), F. Martin, M. E. Neilson (grades 1-2), J. M. Sinclair, A. C. Winger
1919-1920	Ivy C. Duncan (grades 1-2), James Martin (grades 6-8, September-December), Anna Hollins Muckle (grades 6-8, January-June), George Patrick Stevens (grades 9-11), Marjorie J. Wilson (grades 3-5)
1920-1921	Mary R. Dutton (grade 1), Nellie Helen Haight (grades 6-8), Ethel McArthur (grades 4-5), George Patrick Stevens (grades 9-11), ? (grades 2-3)
1921-1922	Mary R. Dutton (grade 1), Nellie Helen Haight (grades 6-8), Ethel McArthur (grades 4-5), George Patrick Stevens (grades 9-11), ? (grades 2-3)
1922-1923	Jessie Watson Craig (grades 4-5), Annie L. Day (grades 6-8, September-December), Mildred A. Olson (grades 1-2), Alma B. Pearson (grades 6-8, January-June), George Patrick Stevens (grades 9-11), ? (grade 3)
1923-1924	Dorothy G. Aldis (grades 4-5, September-December), M. Kathleen Loree (grade 1, January-June), Mildred A. Olson (grades 1-2, September-December), Ethel Rinn (grades 4-5, January-June), George Patrick Stevens (grades 9-11, September-December), Ethel Stevenson (grades 2-3, September-December), Kathleen Walmsley (grades 6-8), Ella A. Whitmore (grades 9-11, January-June), Ruby Wood (grades 2-3, January-June)
1924-1925	Gertrude Brown (grades 2-3), Jessie M. Cosens (grade 1), John Blain Stewart (grades 9-11), Ruby Wood (grades 6-8), ? (grades 4-5)
1925-1926	Eleanor Boyce (grades 9-11), Gertrude Brown (grades 2-3, October-June), Jessie M. Cosens (grade 1), Ethel Rinn (grades 4-5), Dorothy R. Wilkins (grades 6-8), Ruby Wood (grades 2-3, September)
1926-1927	Eleanor Boyce (grades 10-12), Margaret Masson (grades 7-9), Frances Pearl (grades 1-2), Ethel Rinn (grades 5-6), Linnie Y. Wilson (grades 3-4)
1927-1928	Eleanor Bird (grades 7-9, September-December; grades 7-8, January-May), Eleanor Boyce (grades 9-11), Frances Pearl (grades 1-2), Ethel Rinn (grades 5-6, September-December), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6, January-June & grades 7-8 June substitute), Linnie Y. Wilson (grades 3-4)
1928-1929	Eleanor Boyce (grades 9-11), Martha Alice Ohberg (grades 7-8), Annie E. Saunders (grades 3-4), Vera Margaret Sinclair (grades 1-2), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1929-1930	Eleanor Boyce (grades 10-11), Ivodell Viola Busby (grades 3-4), Vera Margaret Sinclair Halliday (grades 1-2), Wilhelmine Murriel Malcolmson (grades 7-9), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1930-1931	Eleanor Boyce (grades 9-11), Muriel May Brill (grades 7-8), Dorothy Harnott Dutton (grades 3-4), Jessie Oliver “Ollie” Wood (grades 1-2), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1931-1932	Eleanor Boyce (grades 9-11), Dorothy Harnott Dutton (grades 3-4), Helen Flora Wiechman (grades 7-8), Jessie Oliver “Ollie” Wood (grades 1-2), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1932-1933	Eleanor Boyce (grades 9-11), Dorothy Harnott Dutton (grades 3-4), Helen Flora Wiechman (grades 7-8), Jessie Oliver “Ollie” Wood (grades 1-2), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1933-1934	Eleanor Boyce (grades 9-11), Dorothy Harnott Dutton (grades 3-4), Henrietta Watson (grades 1-2), Helen Flora Wiechman (grades 7-8), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1934-1935	Eleanor Boyce (grades 9-11), Dorothy Harnott Dutton (grades 3-4), Henrietta Watson (grades 1-2), Helen Flora Wiechman (grades 7-8), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1935-1936	John Alfred Hammond (grades 9-11), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6), ?
1936-1937	John Alfred Hammond (grades 9-11), Margaret Jean Nichol (grades 1-2), Mary Eleanor Rothwell (grades 3-4), Helen Flora Wiechman (grades 7-8), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1937-1938	John Alfred Hammond (grades 9-11), Helen Merle Heney (grades 7-8), Margaret Jean Nichol (grades 1-2), Mary Eleanor Rothwell (grades 3-4), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1938-1939	Arthur Archibald Foster (grades 9-11), Helen Merle Heney (grades 7-8), Margaret Jean Nichol (grades 1-2), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Mary Eleanor Rothwell (grades 3-4), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1939-1940	Victor George Beirnes (grades 9-10), Helen Merle Heney (grades 7-8), Margaret Jean Nichol (grades 1-2), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Mary Eleanor Rothwell (grades 3-4), Ruby Wood (grades 5-6)
1940-1941	Florence M. Adrain (grades 7-8), Irene Frances Tufts (grades 1-2), Myrtle Mary Isabel Harvey (grades 3-4), Narrol M. Lynd (grades 9-10), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Clara Doreen Sampson (grades 5-6)
1941-1942	Myrtle Mary Isabel Harvey (grades 3-4, September-February), Florence Martha Adrain McMillan (grades 7-8), William Malcolm McMillan (grades 9-10), Edith Muriel Parker (grades 5-6, January-June), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Clara Doreen Sampson (grades 5-6, September-December), Elizabeth “Beth” Shaw (grades 3-4, March-June), ? (grades 1-2)
1942-1943	Hermina Johnson (grades 7-8, September-February), Florence Martha Adrain McMillan (grades 7-8, March-June), William Malcolm McMillan (grades 9-10), Edith Muriel Parker (grades 5-6), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Elizabeth “Beth” Shaw (grades 3-4), ? (grades 1-2)
1943-1944	Ferne Elda Bell (grades 7-8), Olive Mildred McMahon (grades 9-10), Edith Muriel Parker (grades 5-6, wife of M. A. Parker), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Elizabeth “Beth” Shaw (grades 3-4), ? (grades 1-2)
1944-1945	Ferne Elda Bell (grades 7-8), Marjorie Ann Dewar (grades 9-10), Edith Muriel Parker (grades 5-6), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Elizabeth “Beth” Shaw (grades 3-4), ? (grades 1-2)
1945-1946	Martha Sophia Hanson (grades 7-8), William Malcolm McMillan (grades 9-10), Edith Muriel Parker (grades 5-6), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Elizabeth “Beth” Shaw (grades 3-4), ? (grades 1-2)
1946-1947	Bodvar Jon Skuli Bodvarsson (grades 9-10), Martha Sophia Hanson (grades 7-8), Edith Muriel Parker (grades 5-6), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Eldera Ida M. Sissons (grades 2-3), ? (grades 1-2)
1947-1948	Martha Sophia Hanson (grades 7-8), Edith Muriel Parker (grades 5-6), Maxwell Addison Parker (grades 11-12), Eldera Ida M. Sissons (grades 3-4), Maude Shewfelt (grades 9-10), ? (grades 1-2)
1948-1949	Henry Royal Dwyer (grades 11-12), Constance G. Franzmann (grades 7-8), Rachel Eliza McCaw (grades 5-6, wife of R. R. Roy), Margaret Aileen MacLean (grades 3-4), Joyce Leona Mason (grades 1-2), Robert Roger Roy (grades 9-10)
1949-1950	Henry Royal Dwyer (grades 11-12), Constance Houston (grade 1), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 7-8), Margaret Aileen MacLean (grades 3-4), Rachel Eliza McCaw (grades 5-6), Joyce Leona Mason (grade 2), Robert Roger Roy (grades 9-10)
1950-1951	Alfred Pierre Champagne (grades 9-10), Bernice Violet Coulthard (grades 5-6), Henry Royal Dwyer (grades 11-12), Gladys Patricia Fleming (grade 1), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 7-8), Joyce Leona Mason (grade 2), Geraldine Norah Poersch (grades 3-4, wife of A. I. Slawson), Alice Marie Rousseau (grade 11)
1951-1952	Barbara I. Dean (grades 9-10), Henry Royal Dwyer (grades 11-12), Gladys Patricia Fleming (grade 1), Grace Beverley Grant (grades 5-6, August-November), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 7-8), Ina Margaret McIntyre (grades 5-6, November-December), Joyce Leona Mason (grade 2), Janet Agnes Nisbet (grades 5-6, January-June), Geraldine Norah Poersch (grades 3-4)
1952-1953	Jean K. Ames (grades 3-4), Olive Louise Clubine (grade 11), Angela Fitzpatrick (grade 2), Robert Lloyd Hedley (grade 12), Linda Hildebrandt (grade 1), Albert Huebner (grades 9-10), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 7-8), Lily Sedun (grades 5-6)
1953-1954	Donalda Marion English (grades 5-6), Garrath Alexander Germain (grades 9-10), Grace Eleene Gorrie (grades 3-4), Robert Lloyd Hedley (grade 12), Linda Hildebrandt (grade 1), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 7-8), Minna Martens (grade 2, September-February), Nancy Olive Rodd [Rudd?] (grade 2, March-June)
1954-1955	Velma Grace Campbell (grades 3-4), Donalda Marion English (grades 5-6), Leona Falk (grade 1), Helen Jean Hampton (grade 11), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 7-8), Bovis? Margolis (grades 9-10), Agnes Jean Tarr (grade 2), Henry Lambert Williams (grade 12)
1955-1956	Paul Alexiuk (grades 7-8), Velma Grace Campbell (grades 3-4), Donalda Marion English (grades 5-6), Leona Falk (grade 1), Mr. J. Geler (grades 9-10, September), Mary Laing (grades 9-10, September-April), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grade 12), Agnes Jean Tarr (grades 2-3), Shirley M. Woods (grade 11), Nicholas Yarish (grades 9-10, May-June)
1956-1957	Paul Alexiuk (grades 7-8), Velma Grace Campbell (grade 4), Odette Marie Boille (grades 9-10), Leona Falk Henders (grade 1), Joan Hodgson (grades 5-6, wife of Leonard Harvey Goldsborough), Chester E. Johnson (grade 11), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grade 12), Viola Christina Smith (grades 2-3)
1957-1958	Paul Alexiuk (grades 7-8), Paul H. Anderson (grade 10), Velma Grace Campbell (grades 4-5), Philomene Courcelles (grade 9), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 11-12), Stella Rose Martens (grades 2-3), Donna Mae Moor (grades 5-6), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1)
1958-1959	Paul Alexiuk (grade 10), Leona Falk Henders (grades 5-6, November-June), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 11-12), Grace Neufeld (grade 2, August-March), Thomas A. Park (grades 7-8), Julia Elizabeth Russell (grade 3-4), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Helen Beryl Tefs (grade 2, April-June), Donalda M. Tibbett (grades 5-6, September-October), Donald Clifford Woods (grade 9)
1959-1960	M. Funk (grades 3-4?), Leona Falk Henders (grades 5-6), Thomas A. Park (grades 7-8), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Helen Beryl Tefs (grades 2-3)
1960-1961	Ellen Jeannette Davis (grades 5-6), Carol Elizabeth Mae Gray (grades 7-8), Margaret Selma Martens (grade 4), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Helen Beryl Tefs (grades 2-3)
1961-1962	Ellen Jeannette Davis (grade 5), Carrol Elizabeth Mae Gray (grade 7), Myrna Ann Gray (grades 4 & 6), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Helen Beryl Tefs (grades 2-3)
1962-1963	Ellen Jeannette Davis (grades 3-4), Lawrence Alexander Dyrkacz (grades 7-8), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Ronald Victor Sigurdson (grades 5-6), Helen Beryl Tefs (grade 2)
1963-1964	Lawrence Alexander Dyrkacz (grade 7), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Laurel Edwin Shewchuk (grade 8), Sarah Marlene Shewchuk (grades 5-6), Helen Beryl Tefs (grade 2), Grace Margaret Toews (grades 3-4)
1964-1965	Jerelyn Roberta Cassels (grade 3), Joan Diana Clifford (grade 6), Maureen Elizabeth Hall (grade 4), Earl Keith McMurchy (grade 5), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Laurel Edwin Shewchuk (grade 8), Sarah Marlene Shewchuk (grade 7), Helen Beryl Tefs (grade 2)
1965-1966	Jerelyn Roberta Cassels (grade 3), Joan Diana Clifford (grade 6), Marie Ella Hlagie (grade 4), Earl Keith McMurchy (grade 5), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Laurel Edwin Shewchuk (grade 8), Sarah Marlene Shewchuk (grade 7), Helen Beryl Tefs (grade 2)
1966-1967	Joan Diana Clifford (grade 6), Margaret Alice Dyrkacz (grade 4), Elizabeth Shaw (grade 1), Laurel Edwin Shewchuk (grade 8), Sarah Marlene Shewchuk (grade 7), Barbara Thiessen (grade 3), Donalda Marion English Tibbett (grade 5), Irene Justine Warkentin (grade 2)

Teachers (High School)

School Year	Teachers
1959-1960	Paul Alexiuk (grade 10), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 11-12), Donald Clifford Woods (grade 9)
1960-1961	Paul Alexiuk (grade 10), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 11-12), Audrey Marilyn Purvis (grade 9)
1961-1962	Paul Alexiuk (grade 10), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 11-12), Donald Clifford Woods (grade 9)
1962-1963	Paul Alexiuk (grade 10), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grades 11-12), Donald Clifford Woods (grade 9)
1963-1964	Paul Alexiuk (grade 11), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grade 12), Maude Sisson (grade 10), Donald Clifford Woods (grade 9)
1964-1965	Paul Alexiuk (grade 11), Marshall Joel Kennedy (grade 9), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grade 12), Maude Sisson (grade 10), Donald Clifford Woods (grade 9)
1965-1966	Paul Alexiuk (grade 11), Marshall Joel Kennedy (grade 9), Ivan Hugh Lounsbury (grade 12), Maude Sisson (grade 10), Donald Clifford Woods (grade 9)
1966-1967	Paul Alexiuk (grade 12), Diana Jean Dunsmore (grade 10), Mrs. A. Fisher (grade 11, 1966), A. L. Petkau (grade 11), Morris Pickering (grade 10), Donald Clifford Woods (grade 9)

Among the other teachers of Elm Creek School was Dorothy Irene Madill Hudson.

Photos & Coordinates

Elm Creek School (circa 1905) Source: Education Department Report, 1905, Manitoba Legislative Library. Elm Creek School (no date) Source: Audrey & Duncan Waddell Elm Creek School (no date) by J. H. Plewes Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 4. Elm Creek School (1968) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey, Elm Creek 1. Elm Creek School commemorative monument (August 2010) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.67454, W97.99681 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

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.

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

Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Elm Creek School District No. 812 - Daily Registers, GR2085, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Elm Creek School District No. 812 - Cash Books, GR2085, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Elm Creek School District No. 812 - Cash Books, GR7164, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Elm Creek School District No. 812 - Minute Books, GR2654, Archives of Manitoba.

Municipal borrowing files (MA 0039), Elm Creek School District #812, GR1799, Archives of Manitoba.

Ripples from the Creek by Edith Anne Baragar, 1969, pages 94-98.

We thank Audrey & Duncan Waddell for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 December 2022

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