MHS Smarty Party: 20 October 2022

Historic Sites of Manitoba: MacGregor School No. 240 (Fox Street, MacGregor, Municipality of North Norfolk)

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A monument, situated in front of the present MacGregor Elementary School, commemorates MacGregor School, formally established in September 1883 with a building erected at NW33-11-10W in 1886. It was replaced by a two-storey brick structure designed by Winnipeg architect Henry Sandham Griffith, constructed in 1903, later enlarged with a two-storey addition, and demolished in 1975. Its bell sits atop a monument in front of the MacGregor Elementary School.

As of 1 January 1965, MacGregor School became part of MacGregor Consolidated School No. 2434, along with several schools in the vicinity, including Beaver Creek School No. 103, Birmingham School No. 2086, Chipping Hill School No. 488, Emmeline School No. 683, Image Creek School No. 712, Macaulay School No. 1159, Path Head School No. 675, Southend School No. 1158, and Squirrel Creek School No. 76.

Construction of MacGregor Collegiate, across the road from MacGregor Elementary School, began in 1956 and was completed in 1957. Senior students moved into the building in November 1957 with an official opening ceremony in January 1958.

Principals (MacGregor School)

Period	Principal
1898-1899	Benjamin Jones Hales (1868-1945)
1899-1900	?
1900-1903	Archibald L. McLean
1903-1904	Francis Henry “Frank” Belton (1869-1936)
1904-1908	William Moore (1872-1956)
1908-1909	Douglas Leader Durkin (1884-1967)
1909-1910	R. A. Downey
1910-1912	?
1912-1913	Alfred James Struthers (1889-1979)
1913-1915	John Cunningham Anderson (1862-1929)
1915-1916	Walter Gard Jose (1878-1948)
1916-1917	William Skidmore (c1885-?)
1917-1919	Alfred James Struthers (c1890-?)
1919-1920	M. E. MacGregor
1920-1931	Winfred Elmore Marsh (1872-1932)
1931-1934	Fanny Ivy Parr (1907-1966)
1934-1935	Charles K. Gorrie
1935-1936	Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1936-1940	Wesley Sterling McGill (1904-1986)
1940-1942	John Ensworth Morison (1896-1983)
1942-1948	Leopold Raymond Labossiere (1913-1969)
1948-1951	Vivian Clarkson “Clark” Hardy (1897-1982)
1951-1952	T. D. McKie
1952-1956	Norman Ernest Wright (1906-1957)
1956-1957	G. Bergen
1957-1969	?
1969-1970	L. B. Patterson
1970-1989	?
1989-?	Malcolm Burt

Teachers (MacGregor School)

Among the teachers at MacGregor School were Wilfrid B. “Wilf” Book (1938-?), Agnes S. Crickard (1953), John Alfred Hammond, and William J. Grant (c1896).

Principals (MacGregor Collegiate)

Period	Principal
1957-1958	Ken Stanway
1958-1959	M. Desrosiers
1959-1960	Helen Jean Hampton (1902-1985)
1960-1961	Gordon Alexander Henderson (1920-1993)
1961-1963	G. E. Raymer
1963-1965	Helen Jean Hampton (1902-1985)
1965-1966	C. J. Bender
1966-1968	H. Schroeder
1968-1973	S. Konopski
1973-c1975	?
c1975-c1983	David Edwin “Dave” Simpkin (?-1987)
c1983-1986	?
1986-?	Darwin Sidney Crabbe

Teachers (MacGregor Collegiate)

No information.

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of MacGregor School (no date) by William J. Bates Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2020-0122 Postcard view of MacGregor School (no date) by Charles I. Meyers Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 85. MacGregor School (July 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - MacGregor 1. MacGregor School commemorative monument (September 2010) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.96901, W98.78138 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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.

We thank Nathan Kramer and Tim Pennell for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 13 December 2021

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