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

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A monument beside a grocery store in Neepawa marks the location of the Neepawa Central School, located on this spot between 1898 and 1954. It closed in late 1953.

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)
1902-1906	Joseph Marshall
1906-1907	?
1907-1908	William Joseph Cram (1861-1940)
1908-1909	?
1909-1914	William Thompson Shipley (1870-1922)
1914-1916	Edgar Burgess (1867-1954)
1916-1918	F. A. Hourihan
1918-1925	George Herbert Robertson (1876-?)
1925-1927	E. C. Jordan
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

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

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

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Allan Drysdale.

Page revised: 20 February 2020

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