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This site at Osborne, in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald, was the location of Osborne School. Established formally in February 1883, the original one-room schoolhouse was replaced by a two-classroom school in 1938 and the earlier building was moved to 5-7-1E to be used as a church.
Among the teachers of Osborne School were F. M. Hicks (1885), Laura Taylor (1886), Melissa Taylor (1887), C. H. McCurdy (1888), Bella Horn (1888-1889), E. M. Armstrong (1889), Maggie E. Aitchison (1889-1890), John Gilian (1891), A. Cram (1891), W. H. Thomson (1891), Miss May E. Brown (1904-1905), Cora E. Smith (1906), Mary Porah (1907-1908), Violet McKay (1908-1909), Mandy L. Axford (1909), Ellen Greig (1910), Miss McMurray (1912), Miss Katherine St. John (1913-1914), Miss Maida Wall (1916-1917), Miss Ruth A. Weaver (1917-1918), Miss Lillian Simpson (1918-1919), Beatrice Whitcomb (1919-1920), E. J. Jarvis (1919-1920), Olive Swanton (1919-1920), M. W. Nicholls (1921-1922), Olive Swanton (1921-1922), Miss Nellie Smalley (1922-1923), Edith Ward (1923-1924), Miss Bertha Tod (1925-1926), Mabel G. Williams (1927-1928), Marjory E. Moore (1928-1929), Miss Frances Mills (1930-1931), Miss Jennie M. Bowyer (1931-1932), Miss Beatrice Shelden (1936-1937), Miss A. Manness (1937-1938), A. McConnell (1940-1941), William Neufeld (1940-1941), Grace Mathers (1941-1942), Jacob J. Wedel (1942-194), Mrs. C. Flett (1944-1947), Mrs. M. D. Branson (1945-1946), Eleanor Linklater (1946-1947), Helen Doerksen (1947-1948), John G. Doerksen (1947-1951), Margaret Wiens (1948-1950), David Thiessen (1950-1951), Miss Margaret Eastman (1951-1953), W. Regehr (1953-1955), Mrs. Ellen Ward (1955-1959), Thor Sigurdson (1959-1960), Mrs. Lloyd Harrison (1960-1963), and Bernice Campbell (1963-1964).
The school closed in June 1964 and its catchment area merged into the Domain Consolidated School District No. 2342. The school building was sold in 1966 but is no longer present at the site. A sign, erected by the municipality in 2014, commemorates it.
Period
Principal
1938-1942
William Neufeld
1942-1944
?
1944-1947
Mrs. Catherine Flett
1947-1950
J. G. Doerksen
1950-1951
David D. Doerksen
No information.
Original Osborne School building (no date) by E. D. Parker
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 10.
Osborne School (1938)
Source: Down Memory Lane: A History of the Domain Community.
Domain Women’s Institute, 1967.
Osborne School commemorative sign (September 2014)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.54110, W97.36664
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Manitoba Organization: Morris-Macdonald School Division School District No. 19
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Down Memory Lane: A History of Domain Community, 1876-1967 by Domain Women's Institute, c1967, pages 99-103.
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.
Financial support for research reported on this page was provided by the Manitoba Heritage Grants Program (grant 12F-C101, 2012-2013).
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 December 2024
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