Historic Sites of Manitoba: Coultervale School No. 515 (Municipality of Two Borders)

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The Coultervale School District was established formally in June 1887. A school was erected on the southeast quarter of 16-1-27 west of the Principal Meridian, in what is now the Municipality of Two Borders. The original building was replaced in 1914 by the present one-storey, two-classroom yellow brick veneer structure, built at a cost of $4,800. In 1968, it became part of the Antler River School Division. In August 2000, the former school (which now serves as a community centre) became a municipally-designated historic site.

Principals

Period	Principal
1934-1936	Ruth Foreman Phillipson
1936-1937	Alice Marshall Downey
1937-1938	Margaret Kippen
1938-1939	Mabel McLaughlin
1939-1941	Reg Penton
1941-1942	Gladys S. Barnes Patmore
1942-1951	?
1951-1953	W. A. Fraser
1953-1955	Gordon Stone
1955-1957	Glen Hammond
1957-1958	Mrs. Mary Atkinson

Teachers

Among the other teachers of Coultervale School were William Morrison (1888), R. G. Atkinson (1889), Hector McArthur (1890), Mary Kinsely (1891), Robert K. Chalmers (1892), Claus Hickson (1893), A. B. Stewart (1894), J. F. Morrison (1894), W. U. Bride (1895), A. V. Knowlton (1896), Florence H. Barrager (1897), Thomas Ross (1898), V. W. Winthrope (1899), Annie Atkinson McKague (1900-1901), Dugald H. Gilchrist (1905), Maud E. Snider (1905-1906), Archibald Bell (1906-1910), I. Campbell (1911), O. Falconer (1912), Sarah Reekie (1913-1914), Maria Foy (1913), Alice Pech (1914), Margaret Masson (1914-1915), Edna M. Harrison (1915), Fern Jackson (1915-1916), Olive Falconer (1916-1918), Laura Burns (1919-1920), F. C. Balfour (1920-1921), J. C. Robb (1921-1922), Eva M. Astrope (1922-1924), Louise Inkster Bell (1924-1925), Verna McDonald (1925-1926), Miss Cameron (1926-1927), Grace C. Hamilton (1927-1928), Winnie Cook (1928-1930), Margaret Gillis (1930-1934), and Agnes Brownlee “Lee” Brown (c1940).

Photos & Coordinates

Coultervale School (circa 1917) Source: Education Department Report, 1917, Manitoba Legislative Library. Coultervale School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 80. A rear view of the former Coultervale School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 114. The former Coultervale School building (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.02949, W101.02664 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites

Sources:

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.

Our First Century, Town of Melita and Municipality of Arthur: 1884-1984 by Melita-Arthur History Committee, 1983, pages 236-237.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

Coultervale School, SE 16-1-27W, Coulter area, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.

Obituary [Agnes Brownlee “Lee” Treilhard], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 May 2021.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 September 2022

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