Historic Sites of Manitoba: Neepawa School No. 126 (Mountain Avenue, Neepawa)

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A monument in Neepawa, on Mountain Avenue beside a grocery store, erected in 1970, marks the location of the Neepawa Central School, located on this spot between 1898 and 1954. The school closed in late 1953 and the building was later demolished.

Principals (High School)

Period	Principal
1890-1891	William Pirritte Argue (1868-1965)
1891-1892	Christopher Roscoe “Rossie” Brown (1868-1946)
1892-1897	?
1897-1902	Ernest James Motley (1868-1940)
1902-1907	Joseph Marshall
1907-1908	Gustavus A. Colpitts
1908-1910	William Joseph Cram (1861-1940)
1910-1914	William Thompson Shipley (1870-1922)
1914-1916	Edgar Burgess (1867-1954)
1916-1918	F. A. Hourihan
1918-1925	George Herbert Robertson (1876-?)
1925-1927	Ernest Cecil Jordan (1879-1958)
1927-1928	Harvey Richard Brown (1895-1962)
After 1928	See Neepawa Collegiate Institute

Principals (Elementary)

Period	Principal
1928-1941	?
1941-1953	Richard Wesley “Wes” McAmmond (1910-2005)

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1891-1892	William P. Argue (senior grades), Miss Frances Labun, Miss St. John
1892	?
1893	?
1894	?
1895	?
1896	?
1897	?
1898	?
1899	?
1900	?
1901	?
1902	?
1903	?
1904	?
1905	Alfred James Bell (high school grades, Fall), Edith E. Brown (Fall), Effie A. Hamilton, Eva J. Hamilton, Cassie Harrison (Fall), Lilian Brown Ireland (high school grades), Mary E. McFadden, Joseph Marshall (senior high school grades), A. Bula? Moffatt, William H. Speers (high school grades, Spring), Alice Walker (kindergarten), Jane T. Yemen (high school grades, Fall)
1906	Alfred James Bell (high school grades), Joseph Marshall (senior high school grades), Jane T. Yemen (high school grades)
1907	Alfred James Bell (high school grades), Gustavus A. Colpitts (senior high school grades, Fall), Joseph Marshall (senior high school grades, Spring), Jane T. Yemen (high school grades)
1908	Alfred James Bell (high school grades), Gustavus A. Colpitts (senior high school grades, Spring), William Joseph Cram (senior high school grades, Fall), Duncan Stewart (high school grades, Fall), Jane T. Yemen (high school grades)
1909	Alfred James Bell (high school grades), William Joseph Cram (senior high school grades), William Thompson Shipley (high school grades), Robert M. Stedman? [Stevenson?] (high school grades, Fall), Duncan Stewart (high school grades, Spring), Jane T. Yemen (high school grades)
1910	Alfred James Bell (high school grades, Spring), William Joseph Cram (senior high school grades, Spring), Florence Estabrooke (high school grades, Fall), A. W. C. Krinch? (high school grades, Fall), Robert J. Rainey (high school grades, Fall), William Thompson Shipley (high school grades), Robert M. Stevenson (high school grades, Spring), Alberta A. C. Thompson (high school grades, Fall), Jane T. Yemen (high school grades, Spring)

Among the other teachers of the Neepawa School were Etta May Moore (circa 1911), Margaret Ellen Simpson (1944-1947), and Hazel Maria Kellington.

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of Neepawa Central School (no date) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2015-0027 Postcard view of Neepawa High School (circa 1910) Source: Rob McInnes, MN0348 Neepawa Central School commemorative monument (August 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Neepawa Central School commemorative monument (May 2023) Source: Glen Toews Neepawa Central School commemorative plaque (May 2023) Source: Glen Toews Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.22729, W99.46665 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Neepawa Collegiate / Viscount School (213 Mountain Avenue, Neepawa)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Neepawa Area Collegiate Institute (445 Hospital Street, Neepawa)

Sources:

“Neepawa,” Manitoba Daily Free Press, 11 August 1891, page 8.

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.

Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Nathan Kramer, Allan Drysdale, Malcolm Bell, Rick Sparling, and Glen Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 24 March 2024

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