Historic Sites of Manitoba: Alexander School No. 338 (Alexander, RM of Whitehead)

The Alexander School District was formally established in October 1884, in the village of Alexander in the Rural Municipality of Whitehead. A two-storey brick building was erected in 1912 on a design by Brandon architect W. H. Shillinglaw.

Principals of Alexander School

Period	Principal
1898-1899	Charles Kenning Newcombe (1877-1944)
1899-1900	John P. Wadge
1900-1904	James Boyd Morrison (1872-1941)
1904-1906	Erwin Knapp (1876-1951)
1906-1907	W. W. McDonald
1907-1909	J. H. Marsh
1909-1910	Thomas F. Elmes
1910-1912	?
1912-1914	J. S. Hollies
1914-1916	Earl A. Ross (?-?)
1916-1918	Angus McNevin
1918-1919	James Corrigill (c1857-1922)
1919-1920	Francis Kethel “Frank” Coleridge (1865-1941)
1920-1923	Agnes Davidson
1923-1924	Ruth Parker
1924-1925	Agnes Davidson
1925-1929	Thomas William Ebbern (1879-1970)
1929-1932	Miss Winnifred D. Boughton
1932-1935	Weston Sweet (1899-?)
1935-1938	R. Stanley McGill
1938-1939	Walter G. Crane
1939-1941	Allan A. Anderson
1941-1942	William H. Lucow
1942-1950	William George Hume (1902-1967)
1950-1953	L. B. Clarke
1953-1955	J. W. Scott
1955-1959	John S. Adamack
1959-1960	L. C. Jackson

Alexander School (no date) by A. J. Hatcher Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 32. Alexander School (June 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey, Alexander. Site Location (lat/long): N49.83019, W100.28871 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

“Alexander, Man”, Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 19 August 1919, 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.

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

Information for this page was collected and prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 13 May 2013

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