Historic Sites of Manitoba: Pierson School No. 685 (Pierson, Municipality of Two Borders)

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The Pierson School District was established formally in February 1892 and it operated a school in Pierson in what is now the Municipality of Two Borders. In 1956, it became the Edward Municipal School District. Three years later, it became part of the Antler River School Division.

Principals

Period	Principal
1904-1919	James Burke
1919-1924	?
1924-1925	Ilo Elizabeth McHaffie McDonald (1899-1988)
1925-1926	George Edgar Haywood (c1902-1985)
1926-1927	Thomas Patrick King (1873-1954)
1927-1929	Allan Shafer Bowman (1906-1941)
1929-1931	Wallace Henry McIntyre (1904-1960)
1931-1933	Richard Collier “Dick” Green (1899-1955)
1933-1936	Grace Elizabeth Armstrong Moore (1914-2008)
1936-1938	Robert John Coates (1908-1990)
1938-1939	Henry Joseph Grenon (1881-1981)
1939-1941	Harry Sharpe (c1905-1958)
1941-1943	Bodvar Jon Skuli Bodvarson (1911-1972)
1943-1946	Hildur Sandborn
1946-1947	Agnes Sherrard Crickard (1891-1965)
1947-1948	Walter Humphrey Wilfred Walker (1908-1974)
1948-1950	Beulah Beryl McNevin (1896-1963)
1950-1951	Ernest Edmond “Ernie” Brennan (1927-2014)
1951-1954	Nicholas Yarish (1924-2012)
1954-1955	Olafia Jonina Jonsson Melan (1887-1966)
1955-1956	George W. Fellowes
1956-1959	Norman S. Toms (?-?)
1959-1963	Glen Wayne Hanna
1963-1966	Delorie Wessels “Del” Howell (1925-2008)
1966-1968	F. Poroda
1968-1970	S. T. Lesniewski
1970-1972	N. M. Annell
1972-1973	R. Neuman
1982-1983	J. Kirkup

Teachers

Period	Teachers
1926-1927	Arletta? May Dobbyn (grades 1-3), Thomas Patrick King (grades 8-10), Grace McNabb (grades 4-7)
1927-1933	?
1933-1934	William Neil Gilchrist (grades 7-11), Dorothea Kate Herman (grades 1-6)
1934-1935	Grace Elizabeth Armstrong (grades 8-11), Ethel Anna Sankey (grades 1-7)
1935-1936	Grace Elizabeth Armstrong (grades 7-12), Ethel Anna Sankey (grades 1-6)
1936-1937	Robert John Coates (grades 9-11), Myrtle Crossman (grades 1-4), Gertrude Dobbyn (grades 5-8)

Among the other teachers who worked at Pierson School were W. A. Mann (1897), Mina McLaren (1903), Mr. A. McMurchy (1923), Miss E. Basted (1923), Miss Grierson (1947), Mr. Hanna (1960), and Grace Judd (1974-1975). Other names recorded in school records were Arnett, Bremner, Dean Mann, Rathwell, Ali, Austman, Adams, Brennen, Mr. Burke, Miss Burke, Baker, Brown, Bucklaschuk, Buan, Bouldion, R. Boulton, J. Bolton, Brotherhood, Busby, Buga, Brooks, Bride, Bailey, Bernhard, Bodkin, Besuitherick, Crossman, Cassels, Cullen, Coates, Southam (Christianson), Calrow, Cole, Dell, Dyer, Dickson, De Vuyst, Donen, M. Dobbyn, G. Dobbyn, Dawn, Down, Day, Ferguson, Fleming, Faulkner, Friesen (Melvin), Mary Fewings, M. Fewings (Nicholls), R. Fewings, French, Grube, Gardiner, Graham, Ghandi, Gayton, Gilchrist, Hall, Holeman, Haight, Higbee, Huber, Hrabluk, Janz, Julyan, Kirby, King, Kitchen, Kowalchuck, Le Barron, Lacquement, S. Lesniewski, M. Lesniewski, McClintock, Mayes, J. Melvin, E. Melvin, McDonald, Muir, McNabb, Mundell, McFetridge, McLaren, MacKenzie, Marquis, Miller, Nylin, Randy Neuman, P. Neuman, Mr. Neary, Mrs. Neary, Owen, Olds, Olson, G. Penner, Mr. Penner, Peters, Pettinger, Rollo, Rennie, Roy, Reddaway, Ramsey, Reid, Rankmore, Robinson, Sankey, D. Southam, I. Southam, Doris Southam, Skelton (Kernaghan), Smith, Snyder (Deplaedt), Scarth, Sanborn, Sambrook, Trenouth (Murray), D. Wayne Thompson, Tucker, Tokaryk, Veloski, Wright, Wilson, White, Wrobleski, Whenman, Mrs. Yarrish, and Zeller.

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of the Pierson School building (circa 1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company Source: Rob McInnes Pierson School (1920s) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 108. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.17834, W101.25822 denoted by symbol on the map above

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.

Harvests of Time: History of the R.M. of Edward by Edward History Book Committee, 1983, pages 171-176.

Aerial photograph A11050-318 [1948], Manitoba Air Photo Library.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 15 August 2021

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