Historic Sites of Manitoba: Roland Schools Monument (Roland, RM of Roland)

Before the town of Roland began, Lowestoft School No. 509 was built in 1888 at SE28-4-4W, approximately three kilometres southeast of the eventual town site. Pupils from the surrounding district, as well as the developing town, which began in 1889, received their early education at this school. The first teacher, hired in 1888, was Miss Maggie Brooks.

With the development of Roland, it was decided to build a two-room school in the town in 1898, on the site of the present school. Because the school developed so rapidly, this school proved to be inadequate and a larger, two-storey brick school was built in 1904, at a cost of $9,000, on a design by Winnipeg architect H. F. Griffith. This school served the community until 1959 when a modern one-storey brick school was built. In 1961, an addition to the school was made due to increased enrolment. Fire destroyed this school on 23 March 1967. By the Fall of 1967, a new school was built to serve the elementary students only. From then on, high school students were transported to Carman or Miami.

Principals of Roland School

Period	Principal
1900-1903	A. E. Vrooman
1903-1905	W. G. Dunkley
1905-1908	Henry Edward Chaplin (1876-1935)
1908-1909	T. W. Halligan
1909-1910	Norman Brett
1910-1912	?
1912-1915	Winfred E. Marsh
1915-1916	George Robert Farrar Prowse (1860-1946)
1916-1919	William J. Gordon Scott
1919-1920	G. O. Durnin
1920-1921	E. H. Leighton
1921-1924	F. H. Anderson
1924-1927	Dwight Nugent Ridd (1900-1976)
1927-1935	George Stevens
1935-1941	Eleanor Boyce (c1899-1997)
1941-1942	Ross Emerson Vasey (1910-2001)
1942-1943	M. G. Lysenko
1943-1956	Victor Harvey Hugo (1888-1972)
1956-1957	G. A. Hamel
1957-1961	D. W. Shaw
1961-1964	A. L. Petkau
1964-1966	N. J. McQuarrie
1966-1967	W. A. Toews

Roland School No. 902 (1913) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Roland - School. Roland Schools Sign (2010) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Location (lat/long): N49.36599, W97.93547 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rowland School No. 470 (1897-1963)

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.

Information for this page was collected and prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 June 2013

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