Historic Sites of Manitoba: Inglis School No. 2107 (Inglis, RM of Riding Mountain West)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

The Inglis School District was established in August 1923 and a school building operated in Inglis in what is now the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West.

Principals

Period	Principal
1934-1941	Henry Royal Dwyer (1905-1996)
1941-1942	William Harold Copeland (?-?)
1942-1944	John Edward “Jack” Dawson (c1912-1982)
1944-1946	Emily M. Bennett
1946-1948	Elizabeth McKay
1948-1950	Stanley Gertz
1950-1963	Sidney Merlin Spidell (1900-1997)
1963-1966	Michael P. Yakimishyn
1966-1968	J. S. Nelson
1968-1973	W. Henderson

Teachers

Among the teachers who worked at Inglis School were Mildred Edith Richarda Dowd, James Andrew McKaughan, Marjorie G. Dance, and Charles M. Langford.

Photos & Coordinates

Inglis School (no date) by H. L. Albright Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 95. The former Inglis School building, now used as office space (August 2013) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.94825, W101.25077 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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.

We thank Lynn Jones and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 1 February 2020

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