Historic Sites of Manitoba: Pilot Mound School No. 105 (Pilot Mound, Municipality of Louise)

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The Pilot Mound School District was established formally in November 1880, in the Village of Pilot Mound. A two-storey wood frame structure, known as the “Old Red School,” continued to be used after a two-storey brick school building was erected nearby in 1905, using locally-manufactured bricks, on a design by Winnipeg architect J. H. G. Russell. The brick school was demolished in 1959. It was replaced by a building that, in the 1960s, became Pilot Mound Consolidated School when it was consolidated with rural schools from the surrounding vicinity: Goudney School No. 87, Gowancroft School No. 204, Marringhurst School No. 231, Pembina School No. 270, Wood Bay School No. 307, Floral School No. 397, Copperfield School No. 480, and Stuartville School No. 795.

Principals

Period	Principal
1890-1891	C. E. Bastin
1891-1892	C. S. Lyons
1892-1896	?
1896-1899	Helen G. Gibson
1899-1901	Fred C. Wilson
1901-1902	F. A. Robinson
1902-1903	Alexander Shirriff Morrison (1880-1955)
1903-1904	R. E. Turnbull
1904-1905	Angus McNevin (1862-1923)
1905-1908	James Andrew McKaughan (1877-1968)
1908-1909	C. H. Edgett
1909-1910	Elbridge Doty Parker (1884-1981)
1910-1912	?
1912-1913	H. P. Wyness
1913-1916	John McNaught
1916-1917	Alfred James Struthers (1889-1979)
1917-1919	Emma Laura Suttis (1881-1971)
1919-1921	Albert Hill (1882-1941)
1921-1922	Percy Vernon Bond (1895-1961)
1922-1923	Jessie Kee
1923-1929	George Archibald Coulthard (1890-1964)
1929-1937	Frederick James Hall (1892-1977)
1937-1942	Axel Vopnfjord (1902-1993)
1942-1944	Robert Alexander Laurie (1899-1953)
1944-1951	Marjory Thompson Smith (1892-1969)
1951-1952	Morley Fraser Sparrow (1915-1979)
1952-1954	Donald Richard Thom (1908-1988)
1954-1959	Norman Gilbert “Norm” Harvey (1925-2023)
1959-1965	Virgil Elroy Holmes (1927-1986)
1965-1969	Ernest Joseph Hafichuk (1928-2016)
1969-1971	Ernest Pankratz (1928-2015)
1971-1972	P. Gluck
1972-1973	K. May

Teachers

Among the teachers of Pilot Mound School were Doris Greenshields (1965-1966, 1971-1972) and Annie B. Fraser.

Photos & Coordinates

The “Old Red School” built in 1889 (no date) Source: Captured Memories: A Pictorial History of the R.M. of Louise by Pilot Mound Museum, 2000. [Copy at Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.L69 Cap] The Pilot Mound School building erected in 1905 and demolished in 1959 (circa 1906) Source: Education Department Report, 1906, Manitoba Legislative Library. Postcard view of the Pilot Mound School (1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company Source: Rob McInnes, MN0592. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.20238, W98.89826 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

“The Indian famine fund,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 March 1897, page 4.

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

“Pilot Mound, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, June 1911, Archives of Manitoba.

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.

Captured Memories: A Pictorial History of the R.M. of Louise by Pilot Mound Museum, 2000. [Copy at Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.L69 Cap]

Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 18 August 2023

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