Historic Sites of Manitoba: Grainsby School No. 1294 (RM of Riding Mountain West)

The Grainsby School District was organized formally in May 1904 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW33-23-29W in what is now the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West. It was destroyed by fire in August 1918 and was replaced at the same site. It was closed temporarily between 1945 and 1950 then closed permanently in 1960 and, four years later, the building was sold to a local farmer who moved to his farm and converted it into a storage shed. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its area became part of the Goose Lake Consolidated School District No. 1283 and later the Intermountain School Division. A commemorative sign remains at the former school site.

Among the teachers of Grainsby School were Hugh W. Keele (1905), Emily Turner (1905-1906), Florence McClare (1907), J. M. Davidson (1907), A. S. Bishop (1908), Percy M. Baldwin (1909), Annie McDougall (1909), Violet E. Leflar (1910), Annie Hodgson (1911-1912), Christina Fletcher (1913-1914), Emma Henderson (1914-1916), A. E. Cameron (1918-1919), Olive Charbonneau (1919-1920), Stella White (1920-1921), Leslie Langford (1921-1922), Florence Henderson (1922-1923), Bentina Erlendson (1924), Mabel F. Cook (1925, 1926-1927), Dorothy Nuttall (1925-1926), Jean W. Woodhull (1927-1928), Mildred Belton (1928-1929), Winnifred Harvey (1929-1930), Malcolm Gillies (1930-1933), Kennatha Statham (1933-1937), Florentine Menzies (1937-1940), Violet Lewis (1940-1941), Lucie Brooks (1941-1942), Orma Mack (1942), Flo Hunter (1943-1944), Dorothy Baxter (1944-1945), Margaret Dillabough (1950-1951), Freda Bradley-Hunt (1951-1952), Myron Shykitka (1952-1953), Mrs. Lietz (1953-1954), Mrs. Thirza Smith (1954-1957), and Mrs. Margaret Kendrick (1957-1959).

Grainsby School (no date) by A. F. Kerr Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 93. Grainsby School commemorative sign (June 2018) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.02210, W101.49173 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Roblin West topographic map, 62N/3 West, Edition 2, Series A743 [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.

Then and Now: Dropmore, Castleavery, Grainsby, Rochedale by Betty Bauereiss, 1995. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.S44 Bau]

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 13 February 2021

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