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