Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lauder School No. 779 (Lauder, Municipality of Grassland)

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The Lauder School District was established formally in May 1893 and a one-room, wood frame schoolhouse operated at Lauder in what is now the Municipality of Grassland. In 1912, the original building was replaced by a brick structure and the wooden school was used as a community hall. In April 1920, it was consolidated with Grand Pre School No. 714 to form Lauder Consolidated No. 779. At the time of a 2011 site visit, the first wood school and the second brick school were both standing at the site, but the older building was demolished in early 2015.

Principals

Period	Principal
1907-1909	T. N. Blakely
1910	W. G. McIntyre
1910	A. G. McIntyre
1910-1911	Alberta Logan
1911	A. E. Ross
1912-1913	Leslie Ernest Grace (1881-1954)
1913-1915	George Andrew Duncan (1890-1975)
1915-1917	William James Rodgers (1891-1970)
1917-1918	Isabel Brandon
1918-1919	Inez Adrienne Hill (1892-?)
1919-1920	Gladys Hope Hines Gavel (1890-1962)
1920-1921	F. A. Ross
1921-1923	Janet Louisa May More (1896-1986)
1923-1924	Gladys Hope Hines Gavel (1890-1962)
1924-1926	Annie Alice Stewart
1926-1928	Robert McIlroy Cross (?-1984)
1928-1929	Elsie K. Gardner
1929-1937	Joseph Edwin Murphy (1897-1973)
1937-1944	Eldred George Miller (1906-1995)
1944-1945	Beulah Beryl McNevin (1896-1963)
1945	Elizabeth Johannovna Penner
1946	Gerald Leslie Wilson
1946-1947	Joan Frances Pettipher
1947-1949	George William Leonard
1949-1950	Frank Donald Dobyns
1950-1953	William Charles Talman
1953-1956	George Ivan McBurney (1929-2019)
1956-1971	Leo Joseph Peloquin (1934-2011)
1971-1972	Francis William North

Teachers

Among the other teachers of Lauder School were Miss Belle Hunter (1893-1894), Clarence C. Stewart (1895), Mr. Belton (1896), Mr. W. J. Anderson (1897), Miss Agnes Brown (1899-1901), Mr. Nicol (1902), Miss Graham (1904), Mr. T. N. Blakely (1905-1906), Miss M. Affleck (1907), Miss B. Maude Bradshaw (1907-1908), Annie Edith Morrow (1908-1912), C. M. Wilson (1912-1913), Olive V. Falconer (1914), Miss G. E. Bride (1914-1915), Miss Olive McRobert (1915-1918), Maisie L. Seebach (1917-1918), Evelyn A. Fisher, Janet Louisa May More (1920-1923), Jean E. Morrison (1921-1922), Alice M. Jordan (1922-1925), M. M. Stewart (1925), Jessie M. Morrison (1926), Florence Fahey (1927-1928), Teressa M. Johnson (1926-1945), Kathleen Chapman (1928-1935), M. McRorie (1934-1935), Stella Annie Douglas (1935-1937), Christina Fraser (1945), Frances Annie Chandler (1946), Clara Alma Beswitherick (1946-1947), Harry Ladobruk (1947-1949), Freda Couling (1949-1950), Sonia Popowich (1950-1952), Irene C. F. Patterson (1952), Laurence Robert Ratcliffe (1953), Martha Myrtle Dennison (1953-1971), and Janice Roberta More (1971-1972).

Photos & Coordinates

The original Lauder School (circa 1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company Source: The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Town, A History of Lauder by Gordon G. Phillips. The original Lauder School, later used as a community hall, demolished in early 2015 (1975) Source: The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Town, A History of Lauder by Gordon G. Phillips. Postcard view of Lauder School (no date) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0079 Lauder School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 125. Lauder School (July 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Lauder 5. The former Lauder School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 203. The former Lauder School building (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.39068, W100.67467 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Town, A History of Lauder by Gordon G. Phillips, 1970s.

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.

We thank Nathan Kramer and Arnold Smith for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 3 October 2023

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