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A monument in Clanwilliam, in the Rural Municipality of Minto, was erected in July 1983 as part of homecoming celebrations, at the former site of Grey School. Formally established in August 1905, a building was erected in 1912 on a design by Winnipeg architect W. W. Blair. The school operated until January 1968. An additional plaque was added to the monument as part of Clanwilliam homecoming celebrations in July 2003. On top of the monument is the original school bell, stored from 1968 to 2000 by the family of Norman McPherson, and installed here in 2000 by former teachers of Grey School.
Period
Principal
1915-1918
Arthur Herbert Hoole (1889-1991)
1918-1921
Agnes Sherrard Crickard (1891-1965)
1921-1923
Wilfred Inglis Stewart (1898-1964)
1923-1927
G. M. Anderson
1927-1931
William Skidmore (c1885-?)
1931-1933
George Oswald Hinds (1906-1969)
1933-1935
Harold Preston Moffat (1906-1998)
1935-1938
Ernest Lorne Moffat (1899-1982)
1938-1941
Archibald James McClacherty “Archie” Thom (1907-2000)
1941-1942
Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1942-1945
Enid M. Bygott
1945-1948
John Kastrukoff (1920-2009)
1948-1949
A. O. Purdy
1949-1951
S. L. Theriault
1951-1952
Adam “Ed” Nazarko (1928-1993)
1952-1954
Mrs. J. M. Johnson
1954-1956
Wilfrid Laurier “Laurie” Tomasson (c1920-1998)
1956-1957
George Wesley Denstedt (1896-1979)
1957-1960
Willard Ervin Rife (1890-1970)
1960-1961
J. Grodecki
No information.
Grey School (no date) by W. C. Hartley
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 103.
Grey School commemorative monument (July 2014)
Source: Alan MasonSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.36267, W99.81369
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Clanwilliam School No. 178 (RM of Minto-Odanah)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Earl Grey School (340 Cockburn Street North, Winnipeg)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
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.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 December 2023
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