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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Darlingford School No. 1228 / Darlingford School Heritage Museum (Darlingford, RM of Pembina)
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As early as 1905, the Manitoba Department of Education was experimenting with consolidation to better serve local communities and students. It was thought that a bigger and better equipped school, in a centralized location, provided better education. Darlingford Consolidated School No. 1228, in the village of Darlingford in the Municipality of Pembina, is an example of those developments. Built in 1910 of brick on a design by Winnipeg architect F. R. Evans, the entrance tower is notably off-centre so that, as the school enrollment grew, another wing would be added on the south side of the building. That never happened at Darlingford. The building features a rare fire escape system off the second floor at the rear.
The smaller rural schools consolidated at Darlingford included Lorne School No. 56, Darlington School No. 79, Middleton School No. 404, Calf Mountain School No. 489, Barclay School No. 657, Point Douglas Consolidated School No. 1475, and Rosyth School No. 2030. The school operated continuously until 1984 when, due to low student enrollment, it closed.
A commemorative marker elsewhere in Darlingford denotes the site of the building which preceded the present structure, which operated there from 1903 to 1910.
The former school building is now home for the Darlingford School Heritage Museum. Open during summer months, tours can be arranged by calling Bob Jordan at 204-822-6882 or Helen Johnston at 204-246-2140.
Principals
Period
Principal
1910-1913
Ruth Crossland and Rose Crossland
1913-1919
Richard A. Fines (1871-1966)
1919
Mr. McCormick
1920
Miss Robinson
1921-1923
George Gordon Grigg (1887-1969)
1923-1924
William George Smith (1873-1943)
1924-1927
George Henry Blackwell (1864-1941)
1927-1932
John Bruce Day (1902-1955)
1932-1939
Willard Ervin Rife (1890-1970)
1939-1950
Cecil Harold Barkley (1908-1979)
1950-1957
John Franklin Morrison (1910-1984)
1957-1958
John Henry Doughty (c1900-1958)
1958-1959
Mrs. Laura Gall
1959-1963
Oliver Glen Olmstead (?-1997)
1963-1967
Allen Thiessen
1967-1968
Douglas Wayne Kroetsch
1968-1969
Deirdre Lee Lyons Lumgair
1969-1971
Mrs. Brooks
1971-1981
Jake Martens
1981-1982
Jake Letkeman
1982-1983
Ray Mutcheson
1983-1984
Shayla Levin
Teachers
Among the teachers who worked at Darlingford School through the years were Miss Brown (1925), Ina Lee (1925), and Leona Duncan (1925).
Photos & Maps
The original Darlingford School (circa 1911)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspector Photos GR2664, C65.
Darlingford Consolidated School (circa 1911)
Source: Consolidation of Rural Schools in Manitoba, Special Report of the Department of Education for the Year 1912, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Darlingford School (no date) by G. G. Neufeld
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 81.
Students and a pair of student vans in front of Darlingford School (no date)
Source: Rob McInnes, MN0591
Darlingford School (August 1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Darlingford 36.
The former Darlingford Consolidated School building (2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The rear of the Darlingford School building, showing its unique fire escape (2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Commemorative marker at the former site of Darlingford School at N49.20716, W98.37575 (May 2013)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Location (lat/long): N49.20519, W98.38053
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.
Darlingford Consolidated School, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch
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.
The Darlingford Saga II, 1870-1970, 1970-1999 by the Darlingford Centennial Book Committee, 1999.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
We thank Ken Jacobs, Ed Grassick, Rob McInnes, Bob Jordan, and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 April 2018
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