Historic Sites of Manitoba: Rutherglen Consolidated School No. 1297 (1915-1968)

The original Rutherglen School No. 1297 was established in May 1904, at this site in the village of McAuley in the Rural Municipality of Archie. In April 1915, it became Rutherglen Consolidated School when it was consolidated with Parkland School No. 1036. In the years, other rural schools joined it, including Rose Lea School No. 278, DeClare School No. 353, Beaver Rapids School No. 674, Cherry Grove School No. 768, Manson Consolidated School No. 841, and Hills Green School No. 856.

The two-storey, four-classroom brick building, erected in 1915, was used until 1968 when it was closed and, the next year, its contents were sold at auction. The building was demolished in 1970. Grades 10 to 12 were bussed to Elkhorn and the former McAuley Collegiate (built in 1961) was occupied by the lower grades. A cairn in front of the Collegiate building (closed in 2000, now a store) was dedicated in 1989 and a second commemorative plaque was added to it in 2004, during a reunion by students of the McAuley schools.

The bell that once adorned the Rutherglen School building (1906-1916) and Rutherglen Consolidated School building (1916-1970), and the cornerstone from the latter building, are displayed next to the McAuley Pioneers Monument elsewhere in McAuley.

Principals of Rutherglen School

Period	Principal
1919-1920	James Thomas Hulme (1864-1938)
1920-1922	J. McNeil
1922-1925	Anna Robertson
1925-1926	Charles Raymond Slawson (1900-1933)
1926-1931	Clarence Edgar “Curly” Heapy (1905-1981)
1931-1932	Thomas P. King
1932-1934	J. H. Duffy
1934-1935	Phyllis C. Mitchell
1935-1943	Charles L. Miller
1943-1944	C. Andrywich
1944-1949	Garnet M. Morrison
1949-1950	A. G. Kuzyk
1950-1954	Mrs. Isabelle Wery
1954-1955	M. Makarchuk
1955-1957	Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (1907-1985)
1957-1961	Lorne W. Day
1961-1962	N. Hylynsky
1962-1963	G. A. Henderson

Rutherglen School (circa 1916) Source: Education Department Report, 1916, Manitoba Legislative Library. Rutherglen School (no date) by W. R. Beveridge Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 93. Rutherglen School monument beside the former school building (September 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Location (lat/long): N50.26270, W101.38331 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: McAuley Pioneers Monument (McAuley, RM of Archie)

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

“Long McAuley landmark, early school empty shell”, Winnipeg Free Press, 27 December 1969, page 25.

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: 21 April 2013

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