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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Tamarisk School No. 847 (Municipality of Grandview)Link to: The Tamarisk School District was established formally in December 1894. A school building operated on the southwest quarter of 29-24-23 west of the Principal Meridian in the Rural Municipality of Grandview. The present school building, dating from 1909 based on a Hooper #2 design, closed in 1967 when it joined the Intermountain School Division. The building is still present at the site, maintained by a local group. In 1995, it became a municipally-designated historic site. Principals
TeachersAmong the early teachers who worked at Tamarisk School were Montague Shore (1895), Albert Ormiston (1896), Richard W. Craig (1897), Albert J. Hatcher (1898), Gertrude Wood (1899-1900), Hugh A. Laughlin (1901), Margaret M. Fortune (1901), Patricia Samson (1902), J. N. Murphy (1903), E. A. More (1904), Margaret Evans (1905-1906), James I. Morkin (1906-1908), Jacob Arbuckle (1909), Bertha Morrison (1909), George L. Dibblee (1909-1910), E. F. Westerman (1910), Christina Cormack (1911-1912), D. McQuarrie (1912), H. Jonson (1913-1914), P. F. Kearns (1914-1915), A. E. Harris (1914-1915), Murial Brigham (1914-1916), J. M. Sutherland (1916-1917), Mrs. B. Ridyard (1916-1917), V. M. Stairs (1917-1918), Roberta A. Anderson (1917-1921), and Phoebe Anderson (1918-1921).
Among the other teachers who worked at Tamarisk School were Thomas Wilbert Emerson (1925-1926), Lenore Denby (1926-1927), Alex Cummings (1927-1942), Murial Cameron (1927-1928), Sophia Cutforth (1928-1930), Lillian Martin (1929-1930), Edith Dunseath (1930-1934), Vera Storey (1934-1938), Kathleen Clay (1938-1940), Elizabeth Nash (1940-1942), Lorna L. Wilson (1942-1943), Doreen Basset (1943-1944), and Doris Shield (1944-1945). Photos & Coordinates
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Sources:School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba. Fiftieth Anniversary: 1895-1945, Tamarisk School District, Grandview, Manitoba. [Gordon Goldsborough, 2019-0061] 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. A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages. Tamarisk School, SW 29-24-23W, Grandview area, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch. We thank Nathan Kramer and George Penner for providing additional information used here. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 20 May 2023
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