Historic Sites of Manitoba: Jordan School / Plumas School No. 88 (Plumas, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

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Known originally as the Jordan School District when it was organized in March 1880, it became Plumas Consolidated School No. 88 in January 1917. In April 1917, a $20,000 debenture was issued to fund the construction of a new schoolhouse and the two-storey building finished that year.

The Jordan School and Plumas School operated at at NE20-16-12 within Plumas in what is now Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone.

Principals

Period

Principal

1905-1906

Hugh McLaughlin

1906-1907

Annie Cameron (1879-1963)

1907-1909

Wallace S. Young

1909-1910

E. Jean Weir

1910

M. S. Elliott

1910

L. E. Kennedy

1911

?

1912

M. C. Cottam [Coltam?]

1912-1913

James Henry Kiteley (1871-1955)

1913-1914

D. W. Hoare

1914-1915

Norman Macleod [McLeod?]

1915

Ivan Edgar Soule (1892-1918)

1916

Robert C. Moir

1916-1917

Martin Murphy

1918-1921

Wilfred Gilbert Pearce (1893-1975)

1921-1924

Dwight Nugent Ridd (1900-1976)

1924-1927

Arthur Hayward Foster (1871-1948)

1927

L. A. Elliott

1927-1929

Arthur Hayward Foster (1871-1948)

1929-1930

Victor Wellington Jenkins (1884-1950)

1930-1932

Samuel Howard “Sam” Doctoroff (1907-1978)

1932-1934

Henry Irvine Graham (1903-1991)

1934-1935

George Harold Laycup (1902-1960)

1935-1938

Glenn Homer Turner (1912-1987)

1938-1940

William Kenneth McMurchy

1940-1941

Edward Marshall “Ed” Maguire (1915-2005)

1941-1943

Benjamin Franklin Olson (1898-1981)

1943-1946

Agnes Sherrard Crickard (1891-1965)

1946-1952

Mac Lane Turner (1915-1956)

1952-1968

Clair Edmond Dawson (?-1995)

1968-1969

D. Smith

1969-1971

C. E. Dawson

1971-1973

L. Tyerman

Teachers

Among the early teachers of Jordan School were James Patterson (1883-1884), Lizzie A. Wickware (Spring 1885 - Fall 1887), Maggie Jones (Spring 1888), Bella Grant (Fall 1888), Nellie Scott (Spring-Fall 1889), ? (Spring-Fall 1890), W. L. Farber (Spring-Fall 1891), Vera McPher (Spring-Fall 1892), John Duff (Spring 1893), Maggie M. Patterson (Fall 1893 - Fall 1894), L. D. Parkinson (Spring 1895), Sadie Reid (Fall 1895, Fall 1896), Ruth McConnell (Spring 1896), James W. Phee (Spring 1897), D. Budge (Fall 1897), George H. Craig (Spring 1898 - Spring 1901), and Hugh McLaughlin (Fall 1901). A later teacher of Plumas School was Lillian Helen Arnold (?-?).

Period

Teachers

1901

Hugh McLaughlin (all grades)

1902

records not available (all grades)

1903

records not available (all grades)

1904

records not available (all grades)

1905

Helen A. Fast (junior grades), Hugh McLaughlin (senior grades)

1906

Annie Cameron (grades 4-10, August-December), Hugh McLaughlin (grades 4-10, January-June), Velma Paterson (grades 1-3, January-June), Amelia M. Rogers (grades 1-3, August-December)

1907

Annie Cameron (grades 4-10, January-June), Amelia M. Rogers (grades 1-3), Wallace S. Young (grades 4-10, August-December)

1908

Amelia M. Rogers (grades 1-4), Wallace S. Young (grades 5-10)

1909

Amelia M. Rogers (grades 1-4), E. Jean Weir (grades 5-10, August-December), Wallace S. Young (grades 5-10, January-June)

1910

M. S. Elliott (grades 4-10, August-September), L. E. Kennedy (grades 4-10, September-December), Amelia M. Rogers (grades 1-4), E. Jean Weir (grades 4-10, January-June)

1911

Amelia M. Rogers (grades 1-4), ? (grades 5-10)

1912

(January-June only): M. C. Cottam [Coltam?] (grades 4-10), Amelia M. Rogers (grades 1-4)

1912-1913

Mabelle Barke (grades 1-4, September-December), James Henry Kiteley (grades 5-10), Adela M. McQuay (grades 1-4, January-June)

1913-1914

D. W. Hoare (grades 4-10), Adela M. McQuay (grades 1-3)

1914-1915

Norman Macleod (grades 7-11), Laura M. Ripley (grades 1-3), Alison M. Wilson (grades 4-6)

1915-1916

Salome Hinniksson (grades 1-3), Norman Macleod (grades 7-11, August-September), Robert C. Moir (grades 7-11, January-June), Olive Pearl Nealy (grades 4-6), Ivan E. Soule (grades 7-11, October-December)

1916-1917

(School closed pt August - pt September due to diptheria outbreak) Salome Hinniksson (grades 1-3), Martin Murphy (grades 7-11), Olive Pearl Nealy (grades 4-6)

1917-1918

F. M. Clarkson (grade 1, April-June), Cynthia Cowan (grades 6-8), Salome Hinniksson (grades 1-2, September-March; grades 2-3, April-June), Martin Murphy (grades 9-12, September-December), Olive Pearl Nealy (grades 3-5, September-March; grades 4-5, April-June), Wilfred Gilbert Pearce (grades 9-11, January-June)

1918-1919

F. M. Clarkson (grades 6-8), Mary Violet Fletcher (grades 1-2), Salome Hinniksson (grades 2-3, September-December; grades 2-4, January-June), Wilfred Gilbert Pearce (grades 9-11), Annie Riddell (grades 4-5)

1919-1920

Mary Violet Fletcher (grades 1-2), Salome Hinniksson (grades 3-5), Wilfred Gilbert Pearce (grades 9-11), Annie Riddell (grades 5-8)

1920-1921

Mary Violet Fletcher (Grades 1-2), Salome Hinniksson (grades 3-5), Wilfred Gilbert Pearce (grades 9-11), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8)

1921-1922

Evelyn M. Dorrett (grades 1-2), Muriel F. Dorrett (grades 3-5), Dwight Nugent Ridd (grades 9-11), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8)

1922-1923

Frances A. Girling (grades 1-2), Marion J. Reid (grades 3-5), Dwight Nugent Ridd (grades 9-11), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8)

1923-1924

Isa M. Hearn (grades 3-5), Arlee Nuser (grade 9), Dwight Nugent Ridd (grades 9-11), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8), ? (grades 1-2)

1924-1925

Arthur Hayward Foster (grades 10-11), Elizabeth Mary Foster (grade 9), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8), A. Jean Wright (grades 1-2)

1925-1926

Arthur Hayward Foster (grades 10-11), Elizabeth Mary Foster (grade 9), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8), A. Jean Wright (grades 1-2)

1926-1927

M. May Ford (grades 1-2), Arthur Hayward Foster (grades 11-12), Elizabeth Mary Foster (grades 9-10), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8)

1927-1928

L. A. Elliott (grades 11-12, October-Nocember), M. May Ford (grades 1-2), Arthur Hayward Foster (grades 11-12, August-September & December-June), Elizabeth Mary Foster (grades 9-10), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8)

1928-1929

Jessie Fletcher (grades 1-2), Elizabeth Mary Foster (grades 9-10), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), Annie Riddell (grades 6-8), ? (grades 11-12)

1929-1930

Jessie Fletcher (grades 1-2), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), Victor Wellington Jenkins (grades 11-12), Gisella Gladys McIntyre (grades 6-8), Florence Mae Shirtliffe (grades 9-10)

1930-1931

Samuel Howard “Sam” Doctoroff (grades 11-12), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), William James McLaughlin (grades 6-8), Florence Mae Shirtliffe (grades 9-10), Iris Stewart (grades 1-2)

1931-1932

Samuel Howard “Sam” Doctoroff (grades 9-11), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), William James McLaughlin (grades 6-8), Iris Stewart (grades 1-2)

1932-1933

Irvine Henry Graham (grades 9-12), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), William James McLaughlin (grades 6-8), Iris Stewart (grades 1-2)

1933-1934

Irvine Henry Graham (grades 9-11), Olive Pearl Nealy Irwin (grades 3-5), William James McLaughlin (grades 6-8), Iris Stewart (grades 1-2)

1934-1935

Dorothy Marian Jones (grades 3-5), George Harold Laycup (grades 9-11), Homer Ross McAllister (grades 6-8), Iris Stewart (grades 1-2)

1935-1936

Dorothy Marian Jones (grades 3-5), Iris Stewart (grades 1-2), Margaret Ruth Sutherland (grades 6-8), Glenn Homer Turner (grades 9-11)

1936-1937

Dorothy Marian Jones (grades 4-5), Iris Stewart (grades 1-3), Margaret Ruth Sutherland (grades 6-8), Glenn Homer Turner (grades 9-11)

1937-1938

Dorothy Marian Jones (grades 4-5), Elizabeth Grace McFadyen (grades 1-2), Iris Stewart (grades 6-8), Glenn Homer Turner (grades 9-11)

1938-1939

Dorothy Marian Jones (grades 4-5), Elizabeth Grace McFadyen (grades 1-2), William Kenneth McMurchy (grades 9-11), Iris Stewart (grades 6-8)

1939-1940

Dorothy Marian Jones (grades 3-5), Elizabeth Grace McFadyen (grades 1-2), William Kenneth McMurchy (grades 9-11), Iris Stewart (grades 6-8)

1940-1941

Dorothy Marian Jones Archibald (grades 3-5, August-December), Elizabeth Grace McFadyen (grades 1-2), Marion MacPhail (grades 3-5, January-June), Edward Marshall “Ed” Maguire (grades 9-11), Iris Stewart (grades 6-8)

1941-1942

Marjorie Lillian Hutchison (grades 6-8, March-June), Marion MacPhail (grades 3-5), Elizabeth Grace McFadyen (grades 1-2), Benjamin Franklin Olson (grades 9-11), Iris Stewart (grades 6-8, August-February)

1942-1943

Marjorie Lillian Hutchison (grades 6-8), Elizabeth Grace McFadyen (grades 1-3), Benjamin Franklin Olson (grades 9-11), Margaret Elizabeth Poole (grades 4-5)

1943-1944

Agnes Sherrard Crickard (grades 9-11), Marjorie Lillian Hutchison (grades 5-8), Elizabeth Grace McFadyen (grades 1-4)

1944-1945

Agnes Sherrard Crickard (grades 9-11), Marjorie Lillian Hutchison Fletcher (grades 6-8), Elizabeth Grace McFadyen (grades 1-4)

1945-1946

Agnes Sherrard Crickard (grades 9-11), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-4, August-April; grades 1-2, April-June), William James McLaughlin (grades 5-8, August-April; grades 6-8, April-June), Evelyn Muriel Martin (grades 3-5, April-June)

1946-1947

Leona Irene Buchanan (grades 3-5), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), William James McLaughlin (grades 6-8), Mac Lane Turner (grades 9-11)

1947-1948

Esther Kettner (grades 3-5, January-June), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), William James McLaughlin (grades 6-8), Christine Elizabeth McLean (grades 3-5, September-December), Mac Lane Turner (grades 9-11)

1948-1949

Esther Kettner (grades 3-5), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), William James McLaughlin (grades 6-8), Mac Lane Turner (grades 9-11)

1949-1950

Lara Kristjansson (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), William James McLaughlin (grades 5-8), Mac Lane Turner (grades 9-11)

1950-1951

Lara Kristjansson (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), Hugh William Ritchie (grades 5-8), Mac Lane Turner (grades 9-11)

1951-1952

Lara Kristjansson (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), Henry Schellenberg (grades 5-8), Mac Lane Turner (grades 9-11)

1952-1953

Clair Edmond Dawson (grades 9-11), Lara Kristjansson (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), Elizabeth Ruth McKenzie (grades 5-6), Henry Schellenberg (grades 7-8)

1953-1954

Clair Edmond Dawson (grades 9-11), Lara Kristjansson (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), Johann Edward Paulson (grades 7-8) Leonard George Tyerman (grades 5-6)

1954-1955

Clair Edmond Dawson (grades 11-12), Lara Kristjansson (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Grace Leggatt (grades 1-2), Johann Edward Paulson (grades 7-8), Gordon Victor Reynolds (grades 9-10, January-June), John Alson Smalleck (grades 9-10, September-December), Leonard George Tyerman (grades 5-6)

1955-1956

Gordon Victor Reynolds (grades ?), ?

1956-1957

?

1957-1958

?

1958-1959

?

1959-1960

?

1960-1961

?

1961-1962

?

1962-1963

?

1963-1964

Marianne Brandt (grades ?), ?

1964-1965

?

1965-1966

?

1966-1967

?

1967-1968

?

Photos & Coordinates

Plumas School

Plumas School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 25.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.38672, W99.08292
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #44 School District of Plumas, GR12576, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Jordan School District No. 88 - Daily Registers, GR3152, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Plumas School District No. 88 - Daily Registers, GR3152, Archives of Manitoba.

Schools in Manitoba - Volume 2, Plumas Elementary - File 86B, Local Government Boundaries Commission, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.

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 Henry Esau and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 24 March 2024

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