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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morris Consolidated School (Rebecca Street, Morris)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The Morris School District was formally established in March 1876 and a school building operated in the Town of Morris. In 1908, a new school building was designed by Winnipeg architect W. W. Blair. After the 1950 Red River flood, the school was renovated into a fourplex residential building.

Principals

Period

Principal

Before 1950

See Morris School No. 29

1950-1951

Arthur Kendall Stratton (1895-1961)

1951-1956

Raymond Ronald Bailey (1922-2015)

1956-1973

Peter Dyck

Teachers

Among the teachers of Morris Consolidated School were Doris Penstock (1952-1954).

Photos & Coordinates

Morris Consolidated School

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.35563, W97.35827
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morris School No. 29 (157 Lucinda Street, Morris)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morris Primary School (159 Main Street South, Morris)

Manitoba Organization: Morris-Macdonald School Division School District No. 19

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.

We thank Ralph Groening and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 1 May 2021

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