Historic Sites of Manitoba: Balmoral Cairns (Balmoral, RM of Rockwood)

This set of three cairns in front of the Balmoral public school commemorate local men who died serving in Canadian military forces during the First World War and the Second World War; and pioneers of the Balmoral area. The first European settlers arrived in this area in the early 1870s and, in 1877, a Methodist church was constructed on land belonging to John Peden. A year later, the first Balmoral School opened, named after Balmoral Castle in Scotland. The Canadian Pacific Railway arrived in the area in 1898, a grain elevator was constructed by the Northern Elevator Company, and Balmoral became a thriving agricultural community.

Principals of Balmoral School

Period	Principal
1914-1915	J. H. Peadon
1915-1917	George A. Duncan
1917-1918	Claude Elmer Law (c1881-1959)
1918-1919	Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1919-1922	Richard A. Fines (c1872-1966)
1922-1923	D. H. Lent
1923-1925	John Sigfus Helgason (?-1978)
1925-1927	Elmenia Jean Mollard (1901-1991)
1927-1928	A. S. Moore
1928-1931	Jacob Truthwaite Norquay (1884-1976)
1931-1934	Gudmundur Olafur Thorsteinson (1888-1934)
1934-1936	Albert E. Reid
1936-1937	W. A. L. McFarland
1937-1938	Albert P. Lanham
1938-1940	James K. McKay
1940-1942	Ernest W. Nemish
1942-1943	George W. Chidley
1943-1945	R. Stanley McGill
1943-1946	Helen L. Ward
1946-1947	J. O. Wilson
1947-1949	Alice R. Plante
1949-1950	John P. Packota
1950-1951	Willard Ervin Rife (1890-1970)
1951-1953	Samuel Stewart Bryan (1889-?)
1953-1955	E. Nakka
1955-1956	D. L. MacDonald
1956-1959	William George Hume (1902-1967)
1959-1960	S. B. Jorgenson
1960-1961	Andrew Alexiuk

Balmoral Cairns (2010) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Balmoral School (no date) by H. D. Cumming Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 21. Site Location (lat/long): N50.25653, W97.31712 denoted by symbol on the map above

First World War:

Name	Occupation	Service	Death Date
Hewitt Anderson (1895-1917)	Clerk	Royal Canadian Army Regiment	30 March 1917
Henry Brown
Angus John Gardiner (1894-1917)	Farmer	43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry	12 November 1917
James MacKenzie
James Porter
Stanley Brunskild Cowley Webb (1895-1917)	Farmer	8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	15 August 1917

Second World War:

John Baldock
David Bowes
Albert Brown
Allister McLeod
Norman McLeod
Norman Styne
George Thomson
Keith Walley
Kenneth Walley
George Watson

Sources:

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

Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

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

Page revised: 13 May 2013

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