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The two-classroom Morris Primary School, known locally as the West Unit School, was constructed in 1936 at the corner of Main Street South and Railroad Avenue in Morris. A portable classroom was added to its rear side in 1946 and it was replaced by a permanent addition in 1955. The school became part of the Morris Consolidated School District No. 2421 in 1963, joining the Morris-Macdonald School Division in 1969.
The site is now occupied by a different building.
Period
Principal
1936-1950
After 1950
Period
Teachers
1936-1958
1958-1959
Dorothy Goldsborough (grade 1), Bertha Lillian Lewis (grade 5), Lillian C. Maloney (grade 2), Shirley Wechreschuk (grade 3)
1959-1960
Bertha Lillian Lewis (grade 5), Lillian C. Maloney (grade 2), Dorothy May Mulko (grade 6), Justina Banman Wiens (grade 4), Shirley Wechreschuk (grade 3)
1960-1961
Norma Walid? (grade 3), ?
1961-1962
Patricia Ann Berg (grades 2-3), Constance Marlene Rempel (grades 1-2), Justina Banman Wiens (grade 4), ?
1962-1963
Patricia Ann Berg (grade 2), Myrtle Eleanor Christison (grade 1), Kazumi J. Ohori (grade 3), ?
1963-1964
?
1964-1965
Myrtle Eleanor Christison (grade 1), Judith Anne Friesen (grades 1-2), Norma Jean Giesbrecht (grade 3), ?
1965-1966
Edith Beselt (grades 1-2), ?
1966-1967
Myrtle Eleanor Christison (grade 1), Elma Brandt (grades 1-2), Elaine Grace Hiebert (grade 2), Grace Louise MacKenzie (grade 3)
1967-1968
Elma Brandt (grade 2), Helen Jane Friesen (grade 1), Grace Louise MacKenzie (grade 2), ?
1968-1969
Myrtle Eleanor Christison (grade 1), Florence Dundas (educable mentally handicapped), Helen Jane Friesen (grade 1), Grace Louise MacKenzie (grade 2), Louise Annette Perrault (grade 2)
1969-1970
Myrtle Eleanor Christison (grade 1), ?
1970-1971
?
1971-1972
?
1972-1973
?
1973-1974
?
Morris Primary School (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 732.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.35310, W97.36497
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morris School No. 29 (157 Lucinda Street, Morris)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morris Consolidated School / East Unit School (Rebecca Street, Morris)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morris Collegiate / Morris School (324 Toronto Avenue, Morris)
Manitoba Organization: Morris-Macdonald School Division No. 19
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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Morris School District No. 29 - Daily Registers, GR0638, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Morris Consolidated School District No. 2421 - Daily Registers, GR0638, Archives of Manitoba.
In the Beginning of Scratching River: An Early History of Morris, Manitoba by Tim Lewis, Pembina Manitou Archive, 2022, pages 53-54.
We thank Ralph Groening for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 6 December 2025
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