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A school district was organized formally at Carroll, in the Rural Municipality of Oakland, in October 1895 and a school building was constructed the following summer, at a cost of $660. Located in what later became Carroll Park, in April 1914 the district was consolidated with Paisley School No. 321, which had operated since 1885. In 1915, a new two-storey brick school was constructed by Souris contractor Daniel Kitchen on a design by Winnipeg architect Eldred D. Tuttle. It opened in January 1916. Four years later, the basement was renovated for use in a newly opened High School.
In September 1961, senior students were bused to Souris. Over the next few years, nearby rural schools closed and their students came here: Hayfield School No. 200 and Riverbank School No. 384. In 1968, Carroll School joined the Souris Valley School Division and remained opened for students in grades 1 to 6, under the supervision of two teachers, with students from grades 7 and 8 being bused to Souris School. It closed completely on 27 June 1969. The school building still stands on its former site and was renovated into a private residence.
The former school bell is mounted on a monument beside the Carroll Memorial Hall.
Period
Principal
1913
G. Arthur Mace
1913-1914
None
1914-1917
William Meldrum (1884-1959)
1917
Daniel J. O’Sullivan
1918
Arthur Creasy (?-?)
1918
Mabel Estella Prout Cuddy (1889-1964)
1919-1923
Willard Erwin Fyfe (1873-1944)
1923-1924
Annie Alice Stewart McLean (1895-1978)
1924-1927
William Jonathan Gresham (1903-1978)
1927-1929
James McNeil (1866-1954)
1929-1930
Stanley James Weatherley (1902-1975)
1930-1935
Karl Eric Chambers (1908-1987)
1935-1939
John Clayton Stewart (1906-1990)
1939-1941
Borden Brownlee Johnston (1911-1996)
1941-1942
Garnet Milton Morrison (1915-1992)
1942-1943
Eileen Ruth Prowse Mainland (1913-2018)
1943-1945
Frank Cecil Jacobs (1914-2002)
1945-1947
Rudolph Verne Dankesreiter (1900-1952)
1947-1949
Frank Cecil Jacobs (1914-2002)
1949-1950
E. Johnson
1950-1954
Richard Nielsen (1914-1997)
1954-1955
Thomas William Ebbern (1879-1970)
1955-1958
1958-1967
Maurice Peter Kalushka (1918-2002)
1967-1969
Maron Ethel Brown
Among the other teachers of Carroll School were Charles Walter Laidlaw (Fall 1896 - Fall 1897), Alice Archibald (pt Fall 1897), Annie L. Graham (Spring-Fall 1898), Fanny B. Thomson (Spring 1899), Gertrude Herriott (Fall 1899 - Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Ray H. Hall (Spring-Fall 1905), Edith Fraser (Spring-Fall 1906), Bella Greenlay (Spring-Fall 1907), Maynard Ratwell (Spring-Fall 1908), Frances Ruth? Crosland (Spring-Fall 1909), G. Arthur Mace (Spring 1910-Fall 1911).
Among the later teachers of Carroll School were Fred Kirbyson (?-?) and Emily Hunter Turner (c1946).
School Year
Teachers
1912
January-June only: G. Arthur Mace (all grades)
1912-1913
Lily Collinson (junior grades, Spring), A. Damley? (junior grades, Fall), G. Arthur Mace (all grades, Spring; senior grades, Fall)
1913-1914
Norman Ewart Brett (all grades, Spring), John A. Peterson (all grades, Fall)
1914-1915
Mabel K. Hawthorne (grades 1-5), William Meldrum (grades 8-10)
1915-1916
Mabel K. Hawthorne (grades 1-5, Fall), Maud E. Huddleston (grades 1-5, Spring), William Meldrum (grades 8-11)
1916-1917
Mabel K. Hawthorne (grades 1-5), William Meldrum (grades 8-11)
1917-1918
Arthur Creasy (grades 7-11, Spring), Mabel K. Hawthorne (grades 1-5), Daniel J. O’Sullivan (grades 6-9, Fall)
1918-1919
Mabel K. Hawthorne (grades 1-5), Mabel Estella Prout (grades 8-11, Fall), Willard Erwin Fyfe (grades 8-11, Spring)
1919-1920
Mabel Crowe (grades 1-4), Willard Erwin Fyfe (grades 8-11)
1920-1921
Velmore Burns (grades 4-7, September-December), Mabel Crowe (grades 1-4, September-December), Willard Erwin Fyfe (grades 9-11), Mary R. Williams (grades 1-3, January-June), Mildred S. Williams (grades 4-7, January-June)
1921-1922
Grace Bramwell (grades 1-4, January-June), Willard Erwin Fyfe (grades 9-11), Mabel E. Johnson (grades 5-8, September-December), Florence Mathatall (grades 5-8, January-June), Mildred S. Williams (grades 1-4, September-December)
1922-1923
Grace Bramwell (grades 1-4), Miss E. Cunningham (grades 5-8, April-May), Thelma Dunn (grades 5-8, September-March), Willard Erwin Fyfe (grades 9-11), Ellen Agar “Nellie” Haight (grades 5-8, May-June), Miss Vanden Houten (grades 5-8, March)
1923-1924
Ellen Agar “Nellie” Haight (grades 5-8, September-December), Irene McKenzie (grades 1-4), Elizabeth Irene Sinclair (grades 4-6, January-June), Annie Alice Stewart (grades 9-11, September-December; grades 8-10, January-June)
1924-1925
William Jonathan Gresham (grades 9-11), Kathleen E. Larter (grades 1-4), Elizabeth Irene Sinclair (grades 4-6, later married Marshall Edwin Franklin)
1925-1926
?
1926-1927
?
1927-1928
?
1928-1929
?
1929-1930
?
1930-1931
?
1931-1932
?
1932-1933
Eva Croll (junior grades), ?
1933-1934
?
1934-1935
?
1935-1936
?
1936-1937
?
1937-1938
?
1938-1939
?
1939-1940
?
1940-1941
?
1941-1942
?
1942-1943
?
1943-1944
?
1944-1945
?
1945-1946
?
1946-1947
?
1947-1948
?
1948-1949
?
1949-1950
?
1950-1951
?
1951-1952
?
1952-1953
?
1953-1954
?
1954-1955
?
1955-1956
?
1956-1957
?
1957-1958
?
1958-1959
?
1959-1960
?
1960-1961
?
1961-1962
Maurice Peter Kalushka (grades 5-8), Meta Mae McCullouch (grades 1-4)
1962-1963
Maurice Peter Kalushka (grades 5-8), Meta Mae McCullouch (grades 1-4)
1963-1964
Maurice Peter Kalushka (grades 5-8), Marjorie Ellen Ryden (grades 1-4)
1964-1965
Maurice Peter Kalushka (grades 5-8), Marjorie Ellen Ryden (grades 1-4)
1965-1966
Maurice Peter Kalushka (grades 5-8), Marjorie Ellen Ryden (grades 1-4)
1966-1967
Ella Elizabeth Gordon (grades 1-4, wife of Henry Gordon), Maurice Peter Kalushka (grades 5-8)
1967-1968
Marion Ethel Brown (grades 5-8), Ella Elizabeth Gordon (grades 1-4)
1968-1969
Marion Ethel Brown (grades 4-6), Ella Elizabeth Gordon (grades 1-3)
View of Carroll Consolidated School through trees (no date) by A. J. Hatcher
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 14.
Carroll Consolidated School (no date) by J. B. Morrison
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 14.
Carroll School (1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Carroll 1.
Carroll School showing emergency fire escape slide (1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Carroll 2.
The former Carroll Consolidated School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 922.
The former Carroll Consolidated School building (August 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Carroll Consolidated School building (August 2026)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.60940, W100.03116
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Daniel “Dan” Kitchen (1865-1930)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Carroll Memorial Hall (Carroll, Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa)
Marriage registrations [Elizabeth Irene Sinclair to Marshall Edwin Franklin], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
“Teachers at the convention,” Brandon Sun, 15 October 1920, page 6.
Oakland Echoes compiled by J. B. Rome and Connie Davidson, Brandon: J. B. Rome, 1970, pages 167-169.
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
“Forty years ago,” Brandon Sun, 21 May 2008, page 8.
We thank Bill Thexton and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 17 October 2026
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