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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brickburn Consolidated School No. 998 (Gilbert Plains, Municipality of Gilbert Plains)

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The Brickburn School District was organized formally in March 1899 and a school building was erected in Gilbert Plains, in what is now the Municipality of Gilbert Plains. It was one of the first schools to participate in the school consolidation movement of the early 20th century when, in 1909, it became the Brickburn Consolidated School. It occupied a new two-storey brick building erected in 1910 on a design by architect Joseph H. Bossons.

Principals (High School)

Period

Principal

1905-1917

Joseph Nelson Bell (1870-1946)

1917-1918

E. Moran Macdonald

1918-1919

Irene Benger

1919-1921

William John Gordon Scott (1885-1953)

1921-1922

George Hindle

1922-1924

Victor Wellington Jenkins (1884-?)

1924-1928

Wilfred Inglis Stewart (1898-1964)

1928-1937

Jonathan Hughes Arnett (1879-1953)

1937-1942

John Bothwell Kines (1898-1985)

1942-1943

Paul I. Robinson (1906-1993)

1943-1951

Arni Kristinson (1883-1969)

1951-1955

Austin Alfred Dale (1911-2003)

1955-1958

Abiah Davies Morgan (1899-1967)

1958-1959

K. G. Breckman

1959-1967

Herbert Irvine “Herb” Dunn (1924-2019)

1967-1971

D. Cowling

1971-1973

A. Funk

1973-1978

?

1978-1979

Walter Morris

Vice-Principals (Collegiate)

Period

Vice-Principal

1978-1979

Blair Elson

Teachers (Collegiate)

School Year

Teachers

1978-1979

Neil Friesen, Alvin Funk, Ron McMurray, Jagdish Malik, Gordon Nixon, Kathy Picard, Ollie Skolrood, Josephine Stone

Principals (Elementary)

Period

Principal

1960-1972

Lloyd S. Smith (1916-2006)

1972-1978

?

1978-1979

Walter Morris

Vice-Principals (Elementary)

Period

Vice-Principal

1978-1979

Lesley Wiesshaar

Teachers (Elementary)

School Year

Teachers

1978-1979

Vespertina Battad, Christine Bird, Robert Dodds, Lena Ewanyshyn, Jean Hamilton, Ray Harkness, Richard Kulbacki, Larry Lagoski, Margaret Lagoski, Michael Maksymetz, Betty Peters, Anne Richards, Jeanne Turner, Pat Agar

Among the other teachers who worked at Brickburn School included Robert Hugh Wellwood, W. G. Bolton, Agnes S. Crickard (1949), Lois M. Falloon, Orest Ziolkoski (1959-1962), and Annie B. Fraser.

Photos & Coordinates

The original Brickburn School

The original Brickburn School (circa 1909)
Source: Consolidation of Rural Schools in Manitoba, Special Report of the Department of Education for the Year 1912, Manitoba Legislative Library.

The second Brickburn School building, erected in 1910

The second Brickburn School building, erected in 1910 (circa 1910)
Source: Consolidation of Rural Schools in Manitoba, Special Report of the Department of Education for the Year 1912, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Brickburn School with Gilbert Plains War Memorial

Brickburn School with Gilbert Plains War Memorial (1920s) by H. L. Albright
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 37.

Brickburn School

Brickburn School (no date) by A. F. Kerr
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 37.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.14950, W100.48636
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gilbert Plains School No. 630 (Municipality of Gilbert Plains)

MHS Resources: Manitoba Bricks and Blocks: A. Snyder and Company / Gilbert Plains Brick Company / M. Snyder and Sons

Sources:

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

“Gilbert Plains, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 29 July 1919, Archives of Manitoba.

“Teaching in Intmt.,” Dauphin Herald, 6 September 1978, page 2.

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.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 7 August 2022

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