Historic Sites of Manitoba: Sinclair School Bell Cairn (Sinclair, RM of Pipestone)

The Sinclair School District was established formally in January 1900 in the village of Sinclair in the Rural Municipality of Pipestone. It became Sinclair Consolidated School No. 1051 in 1966. It was replaced by the present structure sometime in the 1970s or 1980s. A monument topped by the former school bell stands next to the former school, which has been converted into a business facility.

Principals of Sinclair School

Period	Principal
1921-1925	Thomas William Ebbern (1879-1970)
1925-1929	Thomas Erroll Babb (1894-1962)
1929-1931	Samuel Alfred Wright (1900-1966)
1931-1933	Clarence Edgar “Curly” Heapy (1905-1981)
1933-1934	J. Cameron Martin
1934-1939	D. F. Cameron
1939-1940	John A. Hammond
1940-1941	Margaret H. Jasper
1941-1942	Stanley Robert Kitchen (1915-1988)
1942-1952	?
1952-1953	Alma Carnochan
1953-1954	?
1954-1956	B. F. Olson
1956-1958	Chester Crossman
1958-1960	L. E. Shewchuk

Hargrave School (circa 1910) Source: Education Department Report, 1910, Manitoba Legislative Library. Sinclair School (no date) by W. R. Beveridge Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 47. Sinclair School Bell Cairn (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Location (lat/long): N49.56726, W101.28854 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.

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

Page revised: 14 April 2013

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