Historic Sites of Manitoba: Eriksdale School No. 1571 (Eriksdale, Municipality of West Interlake)

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The Eriksdale School District was organized in August 1911 and it operated a school in Eriksdale in what is now the Municipality of West Interlake. The original built was replaced in 1917 and, in 1929, a third classroom for high school students was added to the existing two rooms. In 1958, a new six-classroom building replaced the old structure, which was dismantled with the lumber used to construct a teacherage.

The Eriksdale Collegiate was built in 1961 and the six-room building was used for elementary classes. An addition was made to the collegiate in March 1976.

The school became part of the Lakeshore School Division in 1967.

Principals

Period	Principal
1923-1924	Emma Embree
1924-1925	George Patrick Stevens (c1888-1988)
1925-1926	R. F. Hughes
1926-1927	Anne Norrington
1927-1931	Mina Russell
1931-1932	Sarah Ann Sproat (1885-1976)
1932-1933	R. J. Staples
1933-1934	Raymond Neuman
1934-1938	Archibald James “Archie” Thom (1907-2000)
1938-1939	John Elwin Laird (1876-1950)
1939-1940	Nicholas Frederick Kasian (1913-1996)
1940-1942	Mary Scobie Smith Vickers Cook (1914-2014)
1942-1944	A. Pamela Hardisty
1944-1945	Marian E. Costin
1946-1947	Minnie Karasiewich (1914-2006)
1947-1948	Benny Zenon Orlins (?-1996)
1948-1951	Michael P. Lysack (?-1989)
1951-1952	Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1952-1956	Michael Romanuik
1956-1958	A. H. Sveistrup
1958-1959	R. Friesen
1959-1960	A. L. Petkau
1960-1967	A. H. Sveistrup
1967-1970	Garry Henry Doyle (1934-2014)
1970-1973	E. Bent

Teachers

Among the other teachers at Eriksdale School were Katherine Weber, D. Ruth Matheson, Earl D. McKellar, Emma Sigurdson (1930s), Margaret Dorothy Florence Bottrell, Hildur Emily Sandberg, Phyllis Lamb (1963-1964), Emma Mills (1964-1965), and Benno Richard Klaassen (c1974).

Photos & Coordinates

Eriksdale School (no date) by J. H. Plewes Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 142. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.86393, W98.10241 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Eriksdale East topographic map, 62J/16 East, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].

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.

Beyond Beginnings by Eriksdale Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee, 1996, pages 63-64.

Obituary [Margaret Dorothy Florence Bottrell], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 April 2019.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 January 2021

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