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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.
Period
Principal
1917-1918
Caroline Hester Overton
1918-1920
Mary A. Maddin
1920
Ethel Annie Bolton
1921-1923
Charles James Bowman (1889-1985)
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 McClacherty “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
Among the early teachers at Eriksdale School were Annie J. Connelly (Spring 1912), Lawrence H. Parkinson (Fall 1912 - Spring 1913), Hilda Arnason (Fall 1913 - Fall 1914), Emma Sigurdson (Spring 1915), Emma Sigurdson (Fall 1915), and Etta G. Robinson (Spring 1916).
Later staff included 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).
Period
Teachers
1916-1917
Etta G. Robinson (grades 1-4)
1917-1918
Caroline Hester Overton (grades 5-8), Etta G. Robinson (grades 1-4)
1918-1919
school closed November-December due to influenza: Crystal V. Dicks (grades 1-4, January-June), Mary A. Maddin (grades 5-7), Etta G. Robinson (grades 1-4, August-December)
1919-1920
Crystal V. Dicks (grades 1-4, September-December), Mary A. Maddin (grades 4-8), Ethel May Morrison (grades 1-3, September-December; grades 1-4, January-June)
1920-1921
Ethel Annie Bolton (grades 5-8, September-December), Charles James Bowman (grades 4-9, January-June), Flora Sutherland (grades 1-4)
1921-1922
Charles James Bowman (grades 3-9, September-December; grades 4-9, January-June), Emma J. E. Sigurdson (grades 1-3, September-December; grades 1-4, January-June)
1922-1923
Charles James Bowman (grades 4-9, September-December; grades 5-9, January-June), Emma J. E. Sigurdson (grades 1-4)
1923-1924
Emma Embree (grades 8-12), Mary Edith Palmer (grades 1-3, September-December; grades 1-4, January-June), Emma J. E. Sigurdson (grades 4-6, September-December; grades 4-7, January-June)
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
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.
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.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 22 November 2025
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