Historic Sites of Manitoba: Chesterfield School No. 408 (Municipality of Two Borders)

The Chesterfield School District was established in June 1885 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW10-3-26W in what is now the Municipality of Two Borders. In 1964, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Melita Consolidated School District and later the Antler River School Division. Records for the school are held at the Antler River Museum in Melita.

Among the teachers of Chesterfield School were Sara Bride (1887-1888), William McIntosh (1889), E. W. Wood (1890), Hector McArthur (1891), Bill McArthur (1892-1895), J. H. Livingstone (1896), Effie Thompson (1897), Bertha McDonald (1898-1899), E. McDonald (1900-1903), G. W. Grant (1904), Grace M. Harney (1905), Harvey Brandon (1906), Lillian E. Scribner (1906), Mabel E. Dobbyn (1907), Jean Rothnie (1907-1908), Mary A. Rodgers (1908-1909), Laura Laughlin (1910-1911), M. Sanderson (1912), Charles M. Hoan (1912-1914), A. Myrtle Jennings Keddy (1914-1915), Grace Dandy (1916), O. F. Denstead (1917-1918), Pearl Ramsay (1919), Helena Mann Campbell (1920-1921), L. Long (1922), Pearl E. McLean (1923), Emma Bambridge Breakey (1924-1930), J. E. Anderson (1930), Helen Stevenson Lyle (1931), Gertie Dobbyn Whetter (1932), Gertie Simpson Reid (1933), Miss Barnes (1934), M. Anderson Stacey (1935-1936), Constance Clarke Dann (1937), Hazel Weber Lamport (1938-1939), Miss B. A. Robinson (1940-1941), D. Lyle Dewart (1942), Margaret McIvor (1943), Ellen Palmer (1944), G. M. English (1945), Flora Moore Russell (1946), Mill Lebeau Combs (1947-1948), Audry Babcock (1949), Jean Cocquyt Serruys (1950), Joan Dixon (1951), Frances Coates McCannell (1952), Dorothy Ward (1953), Mrs. Slater Maxwell (1954), and Ada Thompson Josephson (1955-1958).

Chesterfield School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 44. Chesterfield School commemorative monument (July 2016) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.20740, W100.90644 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Waskada West topographic map, 62F/02 West, Edition 1, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].

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.

Our First Century, Town of Melita and Municipality of Arthur: 1884-1984 by Melita-Arthur History Committee, 1983, pages 231-234.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 September 2022

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