Historic Sites of Manitoba: Solsgirth Consolidated School No. 462 (Solsgirth, Municipality of Prairie View)

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The Solsgirth School District was established formally in July 1885 and a school building was erected in Solsgirth, in what is now the Municipality of Prairie View. It became Solsgirth Consolidated School when it was consolidated with Hope School No. 1579 in November 1911. Other rural schools joined it as they closed in the late 1950s: Dowsford School No. 190 and Ekford School No. 1135. The school became part of the Birdtail River School Division in 1968, later closing. The present building is now used for storage.

Principals

Period	Principal
1914-1915	Lena A. Waddell
1915-1918	Mrs. Helen E. Hall
1918-1919	A. Creasy
1919-1920	?
1920-1921	S. E. McDowell
1921-1930	Arni Kristinson (1883-1969)
1930-1933	Halldor Jonsson Stefansson (1898-1983)
1933-1937	Clarence Eric Tibbatts (1904-1979)
1937-1940	William Charles “Charlie” Rhind (1904-1982)
1940-1942	?
1942-1945	Elizabeth Johannonna Penner (?-?)
1945-1950	?
1950-1952	A. Huebner
1952-1956	Dalton J. Burke
1956-1957	?
1957-1959	H. B. Weinmaster
1959-1962	Wally Humenuik

Teachers

Among the other teachers of Solsgirth School were Ellen Elizabeth Wherrett and Helen Margaret Murchie Dickie.

Photos & Coordinates

Solsgirth School, primary building (no date) by G. W. Bartlett Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 64. Solsgirth School, intermediate building (no date) by G. W. Bartlett Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 64. The metal sign for the former Solsgirth School (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough The former Solsgirth School building (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Interior of the former Solsgirth School building (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.48618, W100.91422 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.

Obituary [Helen Margaret Dickie], Shoal Lake Star, 18 May 1993, page 11.

We thank Malcolm Bell and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 8 September 2019

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