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The Alice School District was organized around 1884 at SE5-6-21W, now Elgin, in what later became the Municipality of Grassland. In November 1912, Elgin Consolidated School was formed by the consolidation of Alice School No. 153 with the surrounding districts of Gilead School No. 565, Maguire School No. 1073, and Millerway School No. 250. With the closure of Elgin School No. 318 in late 1912 (formally dissolved in early 1913), and in keeping with Department of Education practise to - where possible - resolve naming conflicts between school districts and their local host community, the Elgin name was then made available to this consolidated district.
Other schools joined this district through later years, including Crown School No. 184 (1930), Croll School No. 1929 (1959), Barber School No. 423 (1962), West Hall School No. 550 (1964), and Fairfax Consolidated School No. 1195 (1966).
The building closed in 1951 and was replaced by a new structure. The school closed in 1986 and a monument, dedicated in July 1988 at N49.44427, W100.27048, commemorates it.
Period
Principal
1905
A. W. Pettapiece
1906-1914
George Herbert Robertson (1876-?)
1914-1915
William Carey McKee (1892-1918)
1915-1917
Neil Albert McIntyre (1888-1972)
1917-1923
William John Robinson (1882-1947)
1923-1924
George Gordon Grigg (1887-1969)
1924-1925
Arthur Victor Pigott (1900-1987)
1925-1927
Percival Beresford Bennett (1884-1954)
1927-1929
Edward Arthur Bathgate [Batke] (1887-1961)
1929-1931
George Edward Whitlaw (1904-1996)
1931-1934
Barney Thordarson (1904-1974)
1934-1937
Howard Reginald Standing (1899-1994)
1937-1941
Howard Melville Dunfield (1912-2000)
1941-1943
Edith E. Nelson
1943-1944
Tena H. McDonald
1944-1947
Walter Thorvaldur Fredrickson (1907-1974)
1947-1950
Hilton Clarence Harper (1914-2005)
1950-1954
Harold Albert Mouritsen (1917-1969)
1954-1955
Frank P. Giesbrecht
1955-1956
D. K. Hunter
1956-1959
Robert Leslie McIntosh (1925-2011)
1959-1964
A. B. Haigh
1964-1965
Marc Brown
1965-1966
E. M. Shwoluk
Among the early teachers who worked at Alice School were Kate Eakin (Spring-Fall 1885), John McLean (Spring-Fall 1886), Laura M. Mott (Spring-Fall 1887), Annie Dale (Spring-Fall 1888), Jessie McGavin (Spring-Fall 1889), F. J. Burrows (Spring-Fall 1890), Georgina A. Bell (Spring 1891 - Fall 1892), Annie C. Wilson (Spring-Fall 1893), A. H. Polter? (Spring-Fall 1894), Isabel Hunter (Spring-Fall 1895), Mary A. Abbott (Spring - pt Fall 1896), William Skinner (pt Fall 1896), Veulla M. Baker [Verilla M. Barber?] (Spring-Fall 1897), M. B. Calverley (Spring-Fall 1898), and Verilla M. Barber (Spring 1899 - Fall 1901).
Period
Teachers
1902
records not available
1903
records not available
1904
records not available
1905
A. W. Pettapiece (senior grades) C. Mabel Sterling (junior grades)
1906
Gertrude A. Harrwer? (Spring), Jean Polson (Fall), George Herbert Robertson (senior grades), C. Mabel Sterling
1907
Ethel M. Armitage (Fall), Jean Polson (Spring), George Herbert Robertson (senior grades), C. Mabel Sterling
1908
Ethel M. Armitage, George Herbert Robertson (senior grades), C. Mabel Sterling
1909
Ethel M. Armitage, Eunice Cuthbert, Margaret McIsaac, George Herbert Robertson (senior grades)
1910
Ethel M. Armitage, Mabel M. McCreary, Margaret McIsaac, George Herbert Robertson (senior grades)
1911
Ethel M. Armitage, R. H. MacKenzie (Fall), Mabel M. McCreary (Spring), Margaret McIsaac (Spring), Nellie F. McMorran (Fall), George Herbert Robertson (senior grades)
1912
(January-June only): Anna Balfour, Gertrude Faith?, R. H. MacKenzie, Nellie F. McMorran, George Herbert Robertson (senior grades)
1912-1913
Jennie A. McCullough, Irene McKenzie, Nellie F. McMorran, George Herbert Robertson (senior grades), Elizabeth I. Waiters? (Spring)
1913-1914
Jennie A. McCullough (Fall), Irene McKenzie (Fall), Nellie F. McMorran, Nina Marion McMorran (Spring), Annie Riddell (Spring), George Herbert Robertson (senior grades, Fall), Elizabeth I. Waiters?, Elizabeth Wanless (Spring)
1914-1915
William Carey McKee (grades 9-11), Nellie F. McMorran (Fall, mother of Robert Elmer Moffat), Nina Marion McMorran (grade 1), Clara E. Poyser (grades 4-5, January-June), H. F. Reynolds (Fall), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8), Grace H. Thompson (grade 3)
1915-1916
Mary E. Kirkland (grades 3-4, January-June), Neil Albert McIntyre (grades 9-11), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8), Margaret J. Scott (grade 1), Grace H. Thompson (grade 3, August-December), Kathleen J. Wark (grades 4-5)
1916-1917
Mary Kerr (grades 2-3, January-June), Mary E. Kirkland (grades 2-3, August-December), Neil Albert McIntyre (grades 9-11), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8), Margaret J. Scott (grade 1), Kathleen J. Wark (grades 4-5)
1917-1918
Dulcie V. Grantham (grades 4-5), Elsie M. Kirkland (grades 2-3), Vera M. Lonsbrough (grades 6-8), William John Robinson (grades 9-11), Margaret J. Scott (grade 1)
Among the later teachers of Elgin School was Frederick Leopold Johnston (?-?).
Alice School No. 153 that, in 1912, became Elgin Consolidated School (circa 1908)
Source: Education Department Report, 1908, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Elgin School (no date) by W. J. Parr
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 53.
Victoria Day celebrations at Elgin School (1920s)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2014-0324
Elgin School commemorative monument at N49.44427, W100.27048 (August 2010)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.44849, W100.26902
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Elgin School No. 318 (RM of Yellowhead)
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Elgin, Man”, Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 27 September 1916, 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.
We thank Bobbi Jo Panciera for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 26 March 2026
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