Established in December 1872, the Boyne School District occupied a log building in the northwest quarter of 22-6-4 west of the Principal Meridian, known locally as the Salterville Schoolhouse. In 1893, a much larger wood frame structure was erected beside it, with separate entrances for boys and girls. It was used until 1930 when a replacement was built and the earlier school was sold to a local farmer for use as a residence at SW2-7-4W (about N49.53555, W97.90791). It was demolished in August 2022. The present one-classroom building, erected in 1930 with a full concrete basement and coal furnace, had electricity installed in 1946.
Among the teachers at Boyne School were Herbert Inman (1878), Theophilus Finn (1883-1884), D. Honeywell (Spring 1885 - Fall 1886), Johnston A. Watson (Spring-Fall 1888, Spring 1890), Ernest James Motley (Spring 1888 - Fall 1889), Jabez Bowen Hugg (Fall 1890 - Spring 1891, Fall 1892 - Spring 1893), A. J. Cameron (Spring 1892), Joseph Paxton (Fall 1893 - Fall 1896), Albert Malcolmson (Spring 1897 - pt Spring 1899), E. M. Hinch (pt Spring 1899), Alma M. Stewart (Fall 1899), E. S. Smith (Spring 1900 - Fall 1901, 1902), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Roland H. B. North (Spring 1905 - Spring 1906), Elmina S. Jickling (Fall 1906 - Spring 1907), J. Evan Struthers (Fall 1907 - Fall 1908), Agnes A. Brigham (Spring 1909), Allena M. McGillvray (pt Fall 1909), Ida L. M. Wyness (pt Fall 1909 - Spring 1911), Jessie Immes [Innes?] (Fall 1911 - Spring 1912), Elizabeth Power (Fall 1912 - 1915), Eva J. M. Reid (1915), Enid Crothers (1916), H. Cecilia Rowan (1917), Evelyn Churchill (1917-1918), Dorothy Green (1919), Gladys Stewart (1920), and Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost (1943-1945). Others for whom the period of employment is unknown include Mildred Pritchard, Evelyn Pritchard, Alice York, Lydia Mallory, Anthony Hogg, and Abram W. Friesen.
The school closed in June 1966 and the remaining students were bused to Carman. The building was used as a community centre for a time. In 1988, it was designated as a municipal heritage site by the Rural Municipality of Dufferin. On 7 March 2013, it was moved into Carman to the Dufferin Historical Society Museum where it was put onto a new concrete foundation and was restored fully and equipped to look as it did when operating as a school.
The first Boyne School building (no date)
Source: Tyler Russell
The first Boyne School building after conversion into a residence (no date)
Source: Tyler Russell
The first Boyne School building during demolition (August 2022)
Source: Tyler Russell
The second Boyne School building at its original site (August 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The second Boyne School building being moved to the Dufferin Historical Museum (March 2013)
Source: Trish Aubin
The second Boyne School at its new home at the Dufferin Historical Museum (June 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the second Boyne School before restoration (June 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the second Boyne School before restoration (June 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The second Boyne School building after the completion of exterior renovations (2015)
Source: Trish Aubin
The former site of Boyne School (August 2025)
Source: Jean McManusSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.50231, W97.92942
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dufferin Historical Society Museum (44 Kings Park Road, Carman)
Boyne School Project, Dufferin Historical Museum.
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
“Cox – Frost,” Brandon Sun, 17 July 1948, page 6.
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.
The Rural Municipality of Dufferin, 1880-1980 compiled and edited by June M. Watson with the assistance of the History Book Committee, RM of Dufferin, 1982.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
“Celebrating the contributions of rural permit teachers,” The Valley Leader, 3 June 2009.
We thank Trish Aubin, Tyler Russell, Heidi Russell, and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 April 2026
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