Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gladstone School No. 70 (Gladstone, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

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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

Period	Principal
1898-1899	Peter H. Moodie (?-?)
1899-1901	J. A. Christilaw
1901-1904	David Williamson Yuill (1878-1970)
1904-1909	Christopher Roscoe “Rossie” Brown (1868-1946)
1909-1912	James Henry Kiteley (1871-1955)
1912-1916	George Wesley Bartlett (1876-1950)
1916-1918	Frederick Philip Grove (1871-1948)
1918-1919	E. G. Brown
1919-1921	William Thompson Shipley (1870-1922)
1921-1922	P. Cameron Langille
1922-1925	E. C. Jordan
1925-1927	P. Cameron Langille
1927-1930	John Henry Hall (1881-1950)
1930-1935	Charles Lyon Maris (1902-1977)
1935-1940	Myrtle Rietta Conway (1908-2005)
1940-1941	John Maxwell “Jack” McGilvray (1908-1977)
1941-1942	Olga Drozdowsky
1942-1944	John Elwin Laird (1876-1950)
1944-1950	Frank Edward White (1915-1994)
1950-1951	R. M. Stevenson
1951-1953	Peter Henry Funk (1906-2003)
1953-1956	John Francis Goodwin (1885-1975)
1956-1957	Lena Giesbrecht
1957-1959	Teresa Moloney (1899-1983)
1959-1960	Marshall Clayton Effler (1932-2023)

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

Postcard view of Gladstone School (no date) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Gladstone - Schools - 1. Postcard view of Empire Day activities at Gladstone School (1915) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2012-0172. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.22557, W98.95221 denoted by symbol on the map above

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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