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The Burnaby School District was established formally in April 1885 at the village of Holland in the Rural Municipality of Victoria. The district changed its name in 1892 to Holland.
In November 1905, the Holland Consolidated School District was formed from the consolidation of Holland School No. 390 and Dawson School No. 117 (established at NW36-24-6W in 1881). It was one of the first two school consolidations in Manitoba, the other being at Virden.
An eight-classroom high school, designed by local architect Andrew Wilson Maxwell, was built by contractor Robert Nicholas Wyatt at a site facing Stewart Avenue in late 1913, at a cost of $25,500. It was opened in December at a formal ceremony attended by the Minister of Education George Robson Coldwell, Education Chief Clerk Robert Fletcher, School Inspector Sidney Edward Lang, Winnipeg school architect James Bertram Mitchell, MLA George Steel, local school board chair W. R. Ross, and former teachers Robert John Mills and Archibald Adam Herriot.
A war memorial on the grounds in front of the school is still present at the site, but the school building is gone.
Period
Principal
1893-1904
Robert John Mills (1863-1928)
1904-1905
Wilfred John Fee (1881-1933)
1905-1906
James H. Marsh (?-?)
1906-1911
Archibald Adam Herriot (1881-1956)
1911
Douglas M. Brown
1912
Urbane Richard Moore (1875-1962)
1912-1913
Duncan Alexander Baxter (1872-1964)
1913-1917
Archibald Dick Johnson
1917
Myrtle V. Whiteford
1918
R. J. Mathers
1918-1920
Luella Gertrude Lick Smith (1896-1963)
1920-1921
John Francis Goodwin (1885-1975)
1921-1922
Walter White (?-?)
1922-1925
John Neville Clark (1885-1972)
1925-1931
Cecil James Hutchings (1897-1983)
1931-1932
John Leslie “Jack” Morrow (1896-1989)
1932-1934
John Bruce Day (1902-1955)
1934-1940
John Hamilton Menzies (1904-1998)
1940-1941
Eldon M. Elliott
1941-1946
Frederick Adam Hodgkinson (1912-2004)
1946-1948
Frederick James Hall (1892-1977)
1948-1955
James Austin Delgaty (1894-1974)
1955-1958
Joseph Albert Mayers (1909-1980)
1958-1960
John R. Lord
1960-1966
Allan H. Badgley
Period
Vice-Principal
1922-1924
Hazel Arretta Vandecar (1897-1990)
1924-1925
Mary Ethel Simms (c1895-1947)
Among the earliest teachers of Burnaby School were Ed Sharpe (Spring-Fall 1885), D. Stacpoole (Spring 1886), school closed (Fall 1886 - Fall 1887), Lillie McLeod (Spring 1888 - Spring 1889), Jessie A. McKenzie (Fall 1889), M. Cusack (Spring 1890), and Robert John Mills (Fall 1890 - Fall 1891).
Among the later teachers of Holland School were Arthur James Manning (?-?), Eleanor Ada Fraser Paxton (?-?), Stanley Corbett “Stan” Henderson (?-?), and John R. Wiens (?-?).
School Year
Teachers
1892
Robert John Mills (all grades)
1893
M. Addie McFadden (junior grades), Robert John Mills (senior grades)
1894
M. Addie McFadden (junior grades), Robert John Mills (senior grades)
1895
M. Addie McFadden (junior grades), Robert John Mills (senior grades)
1896
M. Addie McFadden (junior grades), Robert John Mills (senior grades)
1897
M. Addie McFadden (junior grades, Spring), Robert John Mills (senior grades, Spring; all grades, Fall)
1898
M. Armitage (junior grades), Robert John Mills (senior grades)
1899
M. Armitage (junior grades, Spring), Bessie R. Horach [Hozack?] (junior grades, Fall), Robert John Mills (senior grades)
1900
Bessie R. Horach (junior grades, Spring), M. Muirhead (junior grades, Fall), Robert John Mills (senior grades)
1901
M. Muirhead (junior grades), Robert John Mills (senior grades)
1902
records not available
1903
records not available
1904
records not available
1905
Nellie Campbell, Wilfred John Fee (senior grades, pt Spring), Agnes Kennedy (Spring), Marion Mackay, James H. Marsh (senior grades, pt Spring - Fall)
1906
Edith Berry (Fall), Nellie Campbell (Spring), Ethel E. Disney (Fall), Archibald Adam Herriot (senior grades), Marion Mackay, James H. Marsh (Spring)
1907
Ethel E. Disney, Julia A. Doran, Archibald Adam Herriot (senior grades), Marion Mackay (Spring), Mabel M. Wilson (Fall)
1908
Olive Arburthnot (Fall), Alma Duncan, Archibald Adam Herriot (senior grades), Marion Mackay (Spring), Alice D. Sharman (Fall), Mabel M. Wilson (Spring)
1909
Olive Arburthnot (Spring), Alma Duncan, Archibald Adam Herriot (senior grades), Alice D. Sharman (pt Spring, Fall), Jennie Sharman (Fall), Fannie Sheppard (pt Spring)
1910
Alberta J. Campbell (Spring), Alma Duncan, Archibald Adam Herriot (senior grades), Alice D. Sharman, Jennie Sharman
1911
Edith Berry (Fall), Douglas M. Brown (senior grades, Fall), Alma Duncan, Agnes Ferris, Archibald Adam Herriot (senior grades, Spring), Alice D. Sharman (Spring), Jennie Sharman (Spring), Florence Wood (Fall)
1912
(January-June only): Edith Berry, Agnes Ferris, Albert G. Fulford, Urbane Richard Moore, Alice D. Ross
1912-1913
Duncan Alexander Baxter (senior grades), Edith Berry, Alberta J. Campbell, Agnes Ferris, Anna W. Miller (Spring), Helen Wild? (Fall)
1913-1914
Enid Lucy Armstrong, E. Creighton (Fall), Agnes Ferris, M. Gillam (Fall), Archibald Dick Johnson (senior grades), James A. McGill (Spring), Anna W. Miller, G. V. VanTansk [VanTarisk?]
1914-1915
Enid Lucy Armstrong (grades 1-2), Agnes Ferris (grades 3-4), Archibald Dick Johnson (grades 9-11), James A. McGill, Anna W. Miller (grades 5-6, August-December), Nita Sanderson (grades 5-6, January-June), Sigfus J. Sigfusson (agricultural class)
1915-1916
Enid Lucy Armstrong (grades 1-2, August-December), Agnes Ferris (grades 3-4), Archibald Dick Johnson (grades 9-11), Gladys Sanderson (grades 1-2, January-June), Nita Sanderson (grades 5-6), Sigfus J. Sigfusson (agricultural course), Charles William Wharton (grades 7-8), Myrtle V. Whiteford (grades ?, Spring)
1916-1917
James Malcolm Carmichael (grade 9, January-June), Archibald Dick Johnson (grades 9-11, August-December; grades 10-11, January-June), Gladys Sanderson (grades 1-2), Nita Sanderson (grades 5-6), Elsie A. Speer (grades 3-4), Myrtle V. Whiteford (grades 7-8)
1917-1918
Irene Coppinger (grades 7-8), Archibald Dick Johnson (grades 10-11), Gladys Sanderson (grades 1-2), Nita Sanderson (grades 5-6), Elsie A. Speer (grades 3-4), Myrtle V. Whiteford (grade 9)
1918-1919
Luella Gertrude Lick (grade 9), Elmo Lipsett (grades 3-4, December-June), R. J. Mathers (grades 10-11, January-June), Jessie E. Robertson (grades 1-3, January-June), Gladys Sanderson (grades 1-2, September-December), Nita Sanderson (grades 5-6), Elsie A. Speer (grades 3-4, September-December), Charles William Wharton (grades 7-8), Myrtle V. Whiteford (grades 10-11)
1919-1920
Gladys B. Cooke (grades 5-6), Luella Gertrude Lick (grades 10-11), Jessie E. Robertson (grades 1-2), Nita Sanderson (grades 7-8), Charles William Wharton (grade 9), Margaret Ella Wilson (grades 3-4)
1920-1921
John Francis Goodwin (grades 10-11), Florence Hilda Kellett (grades 5-6), Jessie E. Robertson (grades 1-2), Nita Sanderson (grades 7-8), Charles William Wharton (grade 9), Margaret Ella Wilson (grades 3-4)
1921-1922
Alice M. Jordan (grades 1-2, January-June), Mary Mott (grades 1-2, September-December), Nita Sanderson (grades 7-8), Charles William Wharton (grade 9), Walter White (grades 10-11), Margaret Ella Wilson (grades 3-4), Mildred Wood (grades 5-6)
1922-1923
John Neville Clark (grade 11), Louise Hardy (grades 5-6, April-June), Blanche M. Johnston (grades 3-4), Jennet E. Slater (grades 7-8), Marjorie M. Shortreed (grades 1-2), Hazel Arretta Vandecar (grades 9-10), Mildred Wood (grades 5-6, September-March)
1923-1924
John Neville Clark (grade 11), Blanche M. Johnston (grades 3-4), Margaret B. Rixon (grades 5-6), Marjorie M. Shortreed (grades 1-2), Jennet E. Slater (grades 7-8), Hazel Arretta Vandecar (grades 9-10)
1924-1925
Margaret Carmichael (grades 7-8), Blanche Alberta Christilaw (grades 3-4, daughter of John Albert Christilaw), John Neville Clark (grade 11), Irene I. Douglas (grades 5-6), M. E. Flora (grades 1-3), Mary Ethel Simms (grades 9-10)
1925-1926
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1926-1927
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1927-1928
?
1928-1929
?
1929-1930
?
1930-1931
?
1931-1932
?
1932-1933
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1933-1934
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1934-1935
?
1935-1936
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1936-1937
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1937-1938
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1938-1939
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1939-1940
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1940-1941
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1941-1942
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1942-1943
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1943-1944
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1944-1945
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1945-1946
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1946-1947
?
1947-1948
Ida E. Brown Sanderson, ?
1948-1949
Ida E. Brown Sanderson, ?
1949-1950
Ida E. Brown Sanderson, ?
1950-1951
Ida E. Brown Sanderson, ?
1951-1952
?
1952-1953
?
1953-1954
?
1954-1955
Mary E. Campbell (grades 1-2), James Austin Delgaty (grades 11-12), Isabel Alanna Mayers (grades 7-8), Joseph Albert Mayers (grades 9-10), Donna Ann Jean Minary (grades 3-4), Jean Marie Weir (grade 5-6)
Holland School (circa 1906)
Source: Education Department Report, 1906, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Postcard view of Holland School (circa 1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company
Source: Rob McInnes, MN0345.
Postcard view of Holland School (no date)
Source: Rob McInnes, MN0081.
Postcard view of Holland High School, built in late 1913 (no date) by C. I. Meyers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 75.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.59591, W98.88007
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Andrew Wilson Maxwell (1845-1922)
Memorable Manitobans: Robert Nicholas Wyatt (1877-1954)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Holland School / Empire School No. 216 / Murchison Church Plaque (RM of Minto-Odanah)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Tenders for building,” Manitoba Free Press, 10 May 1913, page 2.
“Holland school formally opened,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 December 1913, page 7.
“Holland, Man., farm yields 46 bu. to acre,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 September 1922, page 2.
“Holland, Man”, Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, Archives of Manitoba.
Obituary [Eleanor Ada Paxton], Winnipeg Free Press, 15 October 1998, page 17.
Manitoba Permit Teachers of World War II, compiled by Louisa Loeb, Winnipeg: Hyperion Press Limited, 2007.
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Rob McInnes for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 3 April 2026
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