Historic Sites of Manitoba: Nesbitt School No. 724 (Nesbitt, Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa)
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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
The Nesbitt School District was established in December 1892 and a schoolhouse operated in Nesbitt in what is now the Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa. It became Nesbitt Consolidated School in 1962 when it was consolidated with several rural schools from the surrounding area, including Minnewawa School No. 372, Riverbank School No. 384, and Bertha School No. 861. It closed in 1968.
Principals
Period
Principal
1936-1937
Richard “Dick” Moore (1908-1996)
1937-1939
?
1939-1940
Allin John Pybus (1913-1991)
1940-1941
G. E. Bjornson
1941-1943
Kathleen Pitt
1943-1944
Elsie Henry
1944-1945
Marion Thomson
1945-1946
Thomas Bell (1913-1996)
1946-1947
Stella Howelko Dunn (1916-2000)
1947-1948
Norma P. Chapple
1948-1951
Harold Andrew “Harvey” Lyons (1919-1987)
1951-1952
Mrs. J. M. Johnson
1952-1953
?
1953-1954
Joan Stanbridge
1954-1958
Lloyd C. Jackson
1958-1961
Paul Kuch
Teachers
Among the teachers who worked at Nesbitt School was Mildred Edith Richarda Dowd.
Photos & Coordinates
Nesbitt School (no date) by A. J. Hatcher
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 115.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.59913, W99.86149
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 Lynn Jones and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 22 November 2019
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