Historic Sites of Manitoba: Manitou Consolidated School No. 314 (1912-1971)

Manitou Consolidated School was established in July 1912, and operated until May 1971 when it became part of Pembina Valley School Division. It consolidated several smaller rural schools, including New Haven School No. 78, Mount Carmel School No. 238, Mowbray School No. 245, Riverdale School No. 323, Pembina Crossing School No. 324, Middleton School No. 404, Kaleida School No. 433, Lore School No. 466, Hazel School No. 517, Stanley School No. 535, Overdale School No. 582, McFadden School No. 774, Midland School No. 845, Willow Bluff School No. 1334, Boundary School No. 1339, and New Haven School No. 2110. As of the early 1990s, the school building remained at the site. Now it has been replaced by a monument that incorporates shards from the school facade and its bell.

Principals of Manitou School

Period	Principal
1891-1892	T. W. Shine
1893-1913	Edgar Burgess (1867-1954)
1913-1914	William Y. McLeish
1914-1915	Th. Jonasson
1915-1916	E. D. Richardson
1916-1918	George James Elliott (1869-1948)
1918-1925	Harold Ludlow Albright (1888-1955)
1925-1929	John C. Anderson
1929-1937	William Kristjanson
1937-1938	W. S. Dunlop
1938-1942	W. A. L. McFarland
1942-1944	John L. Holmes
1944-1946	A. D. Morgan
1946-1954	Charles Douglas Bollman (1917-1986)
1954-1956	J. L. Bridge
1956-1957	Orville Heachuk
1957-1959	Johann Edvald Sigurjonsson (1900-1972)
1959-1965	K. H. Charlesworth
1965-1967	Oliver Glen Olmstead

Postcard of Manitou School (no date) Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 22. Postcard of Manitou Elementary and High Schools (circa 1965) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2012-0068. Manitou School Monument (2010) Source: Ed Grassick Site Location (lat/long): N49.23800, W98.53765 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.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

Information for this page was collected by Ed Grassick and prepared by Gordon Goldsborough..

Page revised: 1 May 2013

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