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A monument commemorates Franklin School at Franklin, in the Rural Municipality of Rosedale. There were three school buildings at a site across the road, the first built around the time that the school district was established, in September 1893. The second building served from 1909 to 1953, and the third and final building occupied the site from 1953 to June 1968, when the school closed and the district was dissolved. The remaining students were bused to Neepawa or Minnedosa.
The former school building is no longer present at the site. Its enamel sign and some photographs are displayed in the Franklin Memorial Hall.
Period
Principal
1908-1911
George Henry Blackwell (1864-1941)
1911-1915
Pearl Nama Broadworth Harrison (1885-1969)
1915-1917
Ethel Viola Foxwell (1889-1973)
1917-1918
J. M. McCormick
1918-1920
Edward Stockley
1920-1922
Donald McLeod (c1891-?)
1922-1924
James McNeil (1866-1954)
1924-1925
Kenneth Donald Bruce (1892-1968)
1925-1936
Robert James Mackenzie (1887-1977)
1936-1937
?
1937-1940
Muriel Douglas
1940-1942
Frank Edward White (1915-1994)
1942-1943
Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1943-1945
Gloria E. Ward
1945-1946
Jean Ritchey
1946-1947
Dorothy Allen
1947
C. M. Davidson
1948
William G. Fleeting
1949
D. V. Dobbin
1950
John Osborn Wilson (1900-1972)
1950-1952
Rudolf Ewald “Rudy” Mehmel (1918-2013)
1952-1953
Raymond B. Keynes
1953-1954
Gudmundur Bjorgvin Arilius “Arli” Isfeld (1913-1994)
1954-1958
Ruth Annie Fairlie Henderson (1904-1992)
1958
John Henry Doughty (1900-1958)
1958-1959
Joseph “Joe” [Szezygol] Shygol (c1928-1974)
1959-1968
Donald Garton
Among the other teachers of Franklin School were Maggie McLaren (Spring 1894 - Fall 1896), Emma McKinney (Spring 1897), Angus McGregor (Fall 1897 - Fall 1898), George W. Arnott (Spring 1899 - Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Tena MacMurchy (pt Spring 1905), Duncan Crerar (pt Spring 1905), Edwin Arthur Temmecliffe? (Fall 1905 and pt Spring 1906), Winnifred Wells [Mills?] (pt Spring 1906 and Fall 1906), and J. E. Muir [Nunn?] (Spring-Fall 1907).
Period
Teachers
1908
George Henry Blackwell (all grades, Spring; senior grades, Fall), Winnifred Fraser (junior grades, Fall)
1909
George Henry Blackwell (senior grades), Winnifred Fraser (junior grades)
1910
George Henry Blackwell (senior grades), Winnifred Fraser (junior grades)
1911
Pearl Nama Broadworth (senior grades, Fall), George Henry Blackwell (senior grades, Spring), Lottie Pearl Shuttleworth (junior grades, Fall), L. Maud Webster (junior grades, Spring)
1912
(January-June only): Pearl Nama Broadworth (senior grades), Lottie Pearl Shuttleworth (junior grades)
1912-1913
Pearl Nama Broadworth (senior grades), Eva M. Kilpatrick (junior grades, Spring), Lottie Pearl Shuttleworth (junior grades, Fall)
1913-1914
Pearl Nama Broadworth (senior grades), Eva M. Kilpatrick (junior grades)
1914-1915
Pearl Nama Broadworth (senior grades), Eva M. Kilpatrick (junior grades)
1915-1916
?
1916-1917
?
1917-1918
?
1918-1919
?
1919-1920
Nettie King (grades 1-6, January-June), Helen Muir (grades 1-6, September-December), Edward Stockley (grades 7-11)
1920-1921
Nettie King (grades 1-6, September-December; grades 4-6, January-June), Donald McLeod (grades 7-11), Olive J. Taylor (grades 1-3, January-June)
1921-1922
E. R. Foreman (grades 4-8), Donald McLeod (grades 9-11), Olive J. Taylor (grades 1-3)
1922-1923
Winnifred Grant (grades 4-7), James McNeil (grades 9-11), Olive J. Taylor (grades 1-3)
Among the other teachers were J. N. Leckie (1915), J. M. Sinclair (1916), M. A. Forsythe (1917), F. C. Matheson (1917-1919), V. H. Hugo (1918), T. C. Matheson (1918), V. Simpson (1923), Ellen Fraser (1923-1924), K. Arthur (1925-1926), D. C. Clark (1925), G. D. Cusack (1926-1927), R. I. McJannet (1927-1930), Mary Ellen Scott (1930-1931), Margaret Coutts (1931-1936), Audrey Heney (1936-1938), M. Audrey Dewart (1938-1940), Mrs. Nellie Greenaway (1940-1945), Doris I. Gray (1945-1947), Clara L. Knipe (1947), Irma Shorey (1948-1950), Violet J. Burke (1950), Mrs. Jean M. Witter (1951-1952), Iva May Eros (1952), Mrs. Raymond Keynes (1953), Alice A. Kolesar (1953), Bernice McConnell (1953-1955), G. Norsworthy (1954), Mrs. A. G. Clarke (1955-1956), Jennie Len (1955), Muriel Garton (1956-1960), Don Garton (1956-1959), Mrs. D. M. McConnell (1960-1963), and Mrs. Mary V. McLaughlin (1963-1968).
The second Franklin School used from 1909 to 1953 (no date) by W. C. Hartley
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 125.
The third Franklin School building used from 1953 to 1968 (no date)
Source: S. J. McKee Archives, Minnedosa Womens Institute, Village History 1878-1956.
Franklin School commemorative monument (August 2010)
Source: Allan Drysdale
Franklin School commemorative monument (September 2023)
Source: Kathryn HyndmanSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.24038, W99.66628
denoted by symbol on the map above
“The Indian famine fund,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 March 1897, page 4.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Marriage and death registrations [Iva May Eros], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Rosedale Remembered, 1984, pages 174-175.
The Beautiful Plains Story: 1983-2008 by Neepawa and Area History Committee, 2008, page 162.
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.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Glen Gibbons, Kathryn Hyndman, and David Ford for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough, Allan Drysdale, and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 1 November 2025
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