Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elphinstone School No. 196 (Elphinstone, RM of Yellowhead)

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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.

Principals

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

Teachers

Among the teachers who worked at Elphinstone School through the years were Raoul McKay and Helen Margaret Murchie Dickie.

Photos & Coordinates

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 Kuzina Site 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)

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.

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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