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The Lauder School District was established formally in May 1893 and a one-room, wood frame schoolhouse operated at Lauder in what is now the Municipality of Grassland. In 1912, the original building was replaced by a brick structure and the wooden school was used as a community hall. In April 1920, it was consolidated with Grand Pre School No. 714 to form Lauder Consolidated No. 779. At the time of a 2011 site visit, the first wood school and the second brick school were both standing at the site, but the older building was demolished in early 2015.
Period
Principal
1907-1909
T. N. Blakely
1910
W. G. McIntyre
1910
A. G. McIntyre
1910-1911
Alberta Logan
1911
A. E. Ross
1912-1913
Leslie Ernest Grace (1881-1954)
1913-1915
George Andrew Duncan (1890-1975)
1915-1917
William James Rodgers (1891-1970)
1917-1918
Isabel Brandon
1918-1919
Inez Adrienne Hill (1892-?)
1919-1920
Gladys Hope Hines Gavel (1890-1962)
1920-1921
F. A. Ross
1921-1923
Janet Louisa May More (1896-1986)
1923-1924
Gladys Hope Hines Gavel (1890-1962)
1924-1926
Annie Alice Stewart
1926-1928
Robert McIlroy Cross (?-1984)
1928-1929
Elsie K. Gardner
1929-1937
Joseph Edwin Murphy (1897-1973)
1937-1944
Eldred George Miller (1906-1995)
1944-1945
Beulah Beryl McNevin (1896-1963)
1945
Elizabeth Johannovna Penner (1909-2002)
1946
Gerald Leslie Wilson
1946-1947
Joan Frances Pettipher
1947-1949
George William Leonard
1949-1950
Frank Donald Dobyns
1950-1953
William Charles Talman
1953-1956
George Ivan McBurney (1929-2019)
1956-1971
Leo Joseph Peloquin (1934-2011)
1971-1972
Francis William North
Among the other teachers of Lauder School were Miss Belle Hunter (1893-1894), Clarence C. Stewart (1895), Mr. Belton (1896), Mr. W. J. Anderson (1897), Miss Agnes Brown (1899-1901), Mr. Nicol (1902), Miss Graham (1904), Mr. T. N. Blakely (1905-1906), Miss M. Affleck (1907), Miss B. Maude Bradshaw (1907-1908), Annie Edith Morrow (1908-1912), C. M. Wilson (1912-1913), Olive V. Falconer (1914), Miss G. E. Bride (1914-1915), Miss Olive McRobert (1915-1918), Maisie L. Seebach (1917-1918), Evelyn A. Fisher, Janet Louisa May More (1920-1923), Jean E. Morrison (1921-1922), Alice M. Jordan (1922-1925), M. M. Stewart (1925), Jessie M. Morrison (1926), Florence Fahey (1927-1928), Teressa M. Johnson (1926-1945), Kathleen Chapman (1928-1935), M. McRorie (1934-1935), Stella Annie Douglas (1935-1937), Christina Fraser (1945), Frances Annie Chandler (1946), Clara Alma Beswitherick (1946-1947), Harry Ladobruk (1947-1949), Freda Couling (1949-1950), Sonia Popowich (1950-1952), Irene C. F. Patterson (1952), Laurence Robert Ratcliffe (1953), Martha Myrtle Dennison (1953-1971), and Janice Roberta More (1971-1972).
The original Lauder School (circa 1908) by Winnipeg Photo Company
Source: The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Town, A History of Lauder by Gordon G. Phillips.
The original Lauder School, later used as a community hall, demolished in early 2015 (1975)
Source: The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Town, A History of Lauder by Gordon G. Phillips.
Postcard view of Lauder School (no date)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0079
Lauder School (no date) by George Hunter
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 125.
Lauder School (July 1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Lauder 5.
The former Lauder School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 203.
The former Lauder School building (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.39068, W100.67467
denoted by symbol on the map above
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
The Rise and Fall of a Prairie Town, A History of Lauder by Gordon G. Phillips, 1970s.
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
We thank Nathan Kramer, Arnold Smith, and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 March 2024
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