Historic Sites of Manitoba: Bethany Consolidated School No. 161 (RM of Minto)

Bethany Consolidated School No. 161, located in the hamlet of Bethany in the Rural Municipality of Minto, was formed in May 1919 from the consolidation of Bethany School No. 161 (which had been formed in December 1883) with Roche School No. 1687. It closed in June 1967 and the two-storey brick building was later demolished. A cairn at the site was dedicated in 1979 to commemorate former students and teachers of Bethany School.

Principals of Bethany School

Period	Principal
1920-1922	William L. Logan
1922-1923	Edith Ann Fingland (1877-1957)
1923-1924	Eva Calverley
1924-1927	Christopher Stow
1927-1928	Francis Kethel “Frank” Coleridge (1865-1941)
1928-1930	Edgar John Jarvis (1894-1972)
1930-1931	?
1931-1932	Norman Ernest Wright (1906-1957)
1932-1938	?
1938-1939	George W. Leonard
1939-1941	George Scott Belton (1904-1967)
1941-1942	R. E. Penton
1942-1945	Samuel Stewart Bryan (1889-?)
1945-1946	?
1946-1947	Anne Kachur
1947-1948	Marie J. St. Germain
1948-1949	L. T. Glaser
1949-1953	Miss Henriette N. Andre
1953-1954	J. Sawatzky
1954-1955	H. I. J. Wilson
1955-1957	Gladys Dorothy Davies
1957-1958	D. Babcock
1958-1959	George J. Gamey
1959-1961	R. C. Beech

Bethany School (no date) by W. C. Hartley Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 55. Bethany Consolidated School Cairn (June 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Location (lat/long): N50.31262, W99.75224 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.

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

Page revised: 8 May 2013

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