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The Gladstone School District was organized formally in December 1878. A two-storey brick school building was constructed in Gladstone, in what is now the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone, in 1898. Destroyed by fire in 1918, a six-classroom school designed by Winnipeg architect John Hamilton Gordon Russell replaced it in 1922. That building was demolished in 1973.
Principals
Vice-Principals
Period |
Vice-Principal |
?-? |
Eleanor Ada Fraser (1904-1998) |
Teachers
School Year |
Teachers |
1912-1913 |
? |
1913-1914 |
? |
1914-1915 |
George Wesley Bartlett (grade 11), T. L. Butler (grades 5-6, 1914), Ruth McConnell (grade 3), Gertrude L. Marshall (grades 5-6), A. Riutoul (grades 1-2), Alice Shaver (grade 10) |
1915-1916 |
Ruth McConnell (grades 3-4, 1915; grades 1-2, 1916), Brenda MacLean (grades 1-2, 1915), M. L. McManus (grades 10-11), A. Riutoul (grades 1-2, 1915), ? (grades 5-9) |
1916-1917 |
Frederick Philip Grove, ? |
1917-1918 |
Frederick Philip Grove, ? |
1918-1919 |
E. G. Brown (grades 6-8), Edward Sandford Lord (grades 9-10), Jessie R. Phoenix (grade 11), Minnie Schooley (grade 1), Nina M. Sly (grades 4-5), Flora May Thompson (grades 2-3) |
1919-1920 |
E. G. Brown (grades 6-8, 1919), W. McKinnon (grades 6-8, 1920), Jessie R. Phoenix (grade 11), Minnie Schooley (grade 1), W. T. Shipley (grade 9), Flora May Thompson (grades 2-3), Una Williams (grades 4-5) |
1920-1921 |
W. McKinnon (grades 6-8), Jessie R. Phoenix (grade 9), Minnie Schooley (grade 1), W. T. Shipley (grade 9), Flora May Thompson (grades 2-3), Una Williams (grades 4-5) |
1921-1922 |
E. C. Jordan (grade 9, 1922), P. Cameron Langille (grade 9), W. McKinnon (grades 6-8), Minnie Schooley (grade 1), W. T. Shipley (grades 10-11), Flora May Thompson (grades 2-3), Una Williams (grades 4-5) |
1922-1923 |
Kathleen B. Bradley (grades 1-2), E. C. Jordan (grades 10-11), P. Cameron Langille (grade 9), Ooney Olive MacDonald (grades 7-8), Flora May Thompson (grades 5-6), Jessie G. Tod (grades 3-4) |
1923-1924 |
Kathleen B. Bradley (grades 1-2), P. Cameron Langille (grade 9), Ooney Olive MacDonald (grades 7-8), Flora May Thompson (grades 5-6), Jessie G. Tod (grades 3-4), ? (grades 10-11) |
1924-1953 |
? |
1953-1954 |
Helen Broadfoot (grade 1), Shirley Law (grades 3-4), Mrs. Moon (French), Agnes Lillias Stewart (grade 6), Flora May Thompson (grades 7-8), Laura Wood (grade 2) |
1954-1955 |
Mr. Argent (grade 9), Mr. Z. A. Strasynski (high school), ? |
1955-1956 |
Helen Broadfoot (grade 1), Mr. J. U. Dyck (high school), Lena Giesbrecht (high school), Shirley Law (grades 3-4), Joane Madychuk (grades 4-5), Agnes Lillias Stewart (grades 6-7), Mr. Z. A. Strasynski (high school), Flora May Thompson (grades 7-8), Laura Wood (grade 2) |
1956-1957 |
F. U. Dyck, Lawrence A. Kwiatkowski, Joan Matychuk, Mrs. Janet Morrison, William Schellenberg, Miss Flora May Thompson, Miss Gladys Thompson |
1957-1958 |
Ruth Emisch, ? |
Among the other teachers who worked at Gladstone School were E. E. Best (1880s), Peter H. Moodie (1890s), Daniel Budge, Frank Harder (1930s),and James S. McKessock (1970s).
Photos & Coordinates
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: William Morton Collegiate (141 Morris Street South, Gladstone, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Pembina School / Gladstone School (Osborne Street, Winnipeg)
Memorable Manitobans: John Hamilton Gordon Russell (1863-1946)
Sources:
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Gladstone, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, October 1916, Archives of Manitoba.
“Tenders for school, Gladstone,” Winnipeg Tribune, 23 May 1921, page 15.
Third Crossing: A History of the First Quarter Century of the Town and District of Gladstone in the Province of Manitoba by Margaret Morton Fahrni and W. L. Morton, Winnipeg, 1946.
“School board report on coming season,” Gladstone Age Press, 17 August 1955, page 1.
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.
Over the Rainbow: Memories of a Country School Teacher by Ruth Emisch, 1993.
Obituary [Eleanor Ada Paxton], Winnipeg Free Press, 15 October 1998, page 17.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Gladstone School District No. 70 Daily Registers, GR3152, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 27 August 2023
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