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Two former school buildings in Elphinstone, in what is now the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead, date from different times. The older building, erected in 1928, was later used as a church. The newer school building beside it, erected in 1960, was vacant, having closed in 1994. Both buildings were in poor condition at the site of a 2020 site visit.
Period
Principal
1915-1916
James Thomas Hulme (1864-1938)
1916-1918
H. F. Reynolds
1918-1919
H. W. Bowen
1919-1920
?
1920-1923
John Hammond Irwin (1886-1952)
1923-1924
John Blain Stewart (1882-?)
1924-1925
George Robert Farrar Prowse (1860-1946)
1925-1928
Christina Mary McRostie Sinclair (1893-1979)
1928-1929
George W. King (?-?)
1929-1931
Laura Marguerite Fisher Hammonds (1902-1989)
1931-1934
John Macgregor Wilkie (1904-1991)
1934-1936
John Maxwell “Jack” McGilvray (1908-1977)
1936-1937
Keith Ian Sanburn Smith (c1908-1972)
1937-1941
William James Bond (1868-1941)
1941-1942
R. J. Dingwall
1942-1943
William Wallace Cutforth (1910-1996)
1943-1947
George William Chidley (c1908-1972)
1947-1950
Teresa Moloney (1899-1983)
1950-1952
Robert Lloyd Hedley (1920-1982)
1952-1953
H. F. Neable
1953-1955
James Ogel Beckstead (1883-1985)
1955-1956
James S. McKessock (1911-1983)
1956-1959
Victor Harvey Hugo (1888-1972)
1959-1960
M. Makarchuk
1960-1967
A. S. Kiliwnik
1967-1970
G. W. Bochinski
1970-1971
Larry Verner Moldowan (1940-2013)
1971-1973
Walter Kiliwnik
Among the teachers who worked at Elphinstone School through the years were Raoul McKay and Helen Margaret Murchie Dickie.
Elphinstone School (circa 1910)
Source: Education Department Report, 1910, Manitoba Legislative Library.
The former Elphinstone School building (July 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Elphinstone School building (August 2020)
Source: Rose Kuzina
The former Elphinstone School building (August 2020)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.53176, W100.31826
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Strathclair Centennial Monument (Elphinstone, RM of Yellowhead)
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
Obituary [Helen Margaret Dickie], Shoal Lake Star, 18 May 1993, page 11.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 September 2023
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