Historic Sites of Manitoba: Coulter School No. 1772 (Coulter, Municipality of Two Borders)

The Coulter School District was established in February 1915 and a one-room schoolhouse operated in the village of Coulter in what is now the Municipality of Two Borders. Until 1950, the building was located at 2-2-27W then until 1957 at 31-1-27W across the road. In 1958, the district was dissolved and its area became part of the Waskada Consolidated School District. In July 2000, a commemorative monument was erected at the second school site.

Among the teachers of Coulter School were M. Wood Stewart (1915), Ida M. Burnett Burns (1916), Mary E. Coppinger (1917), Flora McGregor Andrews (1918), Miss Eleanor McGregor (1919), W. Burton Renton (1919), A. M. Rankin (1919), Stella Hill (1920), Jeanette Cox (1920), Jessie Skelton Jellis (1921), Mary Hawkins (1922), J. Bruce Day (1923), Coral Lynn Miller (1923), Miss Robinson (1924), Carrie Mott Atkinson (1925-1926), Evelyn Lyle McKague (1927), Merna Greig Jellis (1928-1929), Margaret Otto Gould (1930-1931), Esther Caldwell Johnson (1932-1935), Doreen Blaker Cutforth (1936-1937), L. Singleton (1938), G. Barnes Patmore (1939-1940), Dorothy Rin (1941), Georgina Hill (1941), Winie Coates Peterson (1941-1945), Eza Waiser (1946-1947), Verona McKinley (1948), Olive Bird (1949), Gordon George Phillips (1950-1951), Wilma Fraser Andrews (1951), Hazel McClintock Andrew (1952-1953), Olga Wingerak Zimmerman (1954), Mrs. Marjory Penny (1955), Mrs. Margaret Schreder (1956), Diana Aiken (1956), Thomas Masyluk (1956), and Mrs. Gisi (1957).

Coulter School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 32. Coulter School commemorative monument (July 2016) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.08795, W100.98427 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 235-236.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 September 2022

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