Historic Sites of Manitoba: Holland Consolidated School No. 390 (Holland, RM of Victoria)

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Holland Consolidated School, in the village of Holland in the Rural Municipality of Victoria, was formed in November 1905 from the consolidation of Holland School No. 390 (established at Holland in 1885) 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 Maxwell, was built by contractor R. N. 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 G. R. Coldwell, Education Chief Clerk Robert Fletcher, School Inspector S. E. Lang, Winnipeg school architect J. B. Mitchell, MLA George Steel, local school board chair W. R. Ross, and former teachers R. J. Mills and A. A. Herriot.

A war memorial on the grounds in front of the school is still present at the site, but the school building is gone.

Principals

Period	Principal
1903-1904	Wilfred John Fee (1881-1933)
1904-1905	J. H. Marsh
1905-1911	Archibald Adam Herriot (1881-1956)
1911-1912	?
1912-1913	Duncan Alexander Baxter (1872-1964)
1913-1918	A. D. Johnson
1918-1920	Luella Gertrude Lick Smith (1896-1963)
1920-1921	John Francis Goodwin (1885-1975)
1921-1922	W. White
1922-1925	J. N. Clark
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

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1922-1923	Miss Johnston, Miss Shortreed, Miss Van de Car (assistant principal), Miss M. Wood

Among the other teachers of Holland School were Arthur James Manning, Robert John Mills, Archibald Adam Herriot, Ida E. Brown Sanderson (1947-1951), and Eleanor Ada Fraser Paxton.

Photos & Coordinates

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:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Holland School / Empire School No. 216 / Murchison Church Plaque (RM of Minto-Odanah)

Sources:

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 Ltd., 2007.

We thank Nathan Kramer and Rob McInnes for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 7 September 2022

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