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The Solsgirth School District was established formally in July 1885 and a school building was erected in Solsgirth, in what is now the Municipality of Prairie View. It became Solsgirth Consolidated School when it was consolidated with Hope School No. 1579 in November 1911. Other rural schools joined it as they closed in the late 1950s: Dowsford School No. 190 and Ekford School No. 1135. The school became part of the Birdtail River School Division in 1968, later closing. The present building is now used for storage.
Period
Principal
1913
May Harrison
1914
Myrtle C. Fisher
1915
Lena Alexandra Waddell Kippan (1881-1964)
1916-1918
Mrs. Helen Y. Hall
1918
Louise C. Anderson (1875-?)
1919-1920
Arthur Creasy (?-?)
1920-1921
Samuel Ernest McDowell
1921-1930
Arni Kristinson (1883-1969)
1930-1933
Halldor Jonsson Stefansson (1898-1983)
1933-1937
Clarence Eric Tibbatts (1904-1979)
1937-1941
William Charles “Charlie” Rhind (1904-1982)
1941-1942
John Edward “Jack” Dawson (c1912-1982)
1942-1945
Elizabeth Johannovna Penner (1909-2002)
1945-1946
Stanley Francis Pye (1908-1985)
1946-1947
William John Filion (1922-1984)
1947-1949
Francis Alexander Wilson
1949-1950
Soreen Bernhard Jorgensen (1905-1988)
1950-1952
Albert Huebner
1952-1956
Dalton J. Burke
1956-1957
1957-1959
H. B. Weinmaster
1959-1962
Wally Humenuik
Among the early teachers of Solsgirth School were Abbie Nelson (Spring 1886 - Fall 1888), A. R. Ross (Spring-Fall 1889), Ethel Nelson (Spring 1890 - pt Fall 1891), Lizzie Ross (pt Fall 1891), Maude Shannon (Spring 1892), Joseph Paxton (Fall 1892 - Spring 1893), K. S. Hogg (Fall 1893 - Fall 1895), Nan? Wilson (Spring-Fall 1895), Emily Tibbatts (Spring 1896), E. B. Steele (Fall 1896 - Spring 1897), Daniel Windsor (Fall 1897 - Spring 1899), Winnifred Beale (pt Fall 1899), Helen Younghusband (pt Fall 1899 - Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Susie Younghusband (pt Spring 1905), Frances E. Landen? [Lander?] (pt Spring 1905 - Spring 1907), Jennie Ellis (Fall 1907 - Spring 1908), Meeta? J. Hill (Fall 1908 - Fall 1909), Eva J. Hamilton (Spring 1910), Ruby Winkler (pt Fall 1910), and Pearl Fletcher (pt Fall 1910), and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Fletcher (Spring 1911 - Spring 1913).
Later teachers of Solsgirth School included Helen Margaret Murchie Dickie.
Period
Teachers
1913-1914
Myrtle C. Fisher (senior grades, Spring), May Harrison (senior grades, Fall), L. M. Beattie (junior grades, pt Fall), Sarah C. Radcliffe (junior grades, pt Fall - Spring)
1914-1915
Myrtle C. Fisher (grades 7-10, September-December), Sarah C. Radcliffe (grades 1-6), Lena Alexandra Waddell (grades 7-10, January-June)
1915-1916
Mrs. Helen Y. Hall (grades 6-11, January-June), Sarah C. Radcliffe (grades 1-5), Lena Alexandra Waddell (grades 6-11, August-December)
1916-1917
Mrs. Helen Y. Hall (grades 7-10), Esther M. Moulson (grades 1-6)
1917-1918
Mrs. Helen Y. Hall (grades 7-10), Esther M. Moulson (grades 1-6)
1918-1919
Louise C. Anderson (grades 6-10, August-December), Rossie M. Channon (grades 1-6), Arthur Creasy (grades 6-10, January-June)
1919-1920
Rossie M. Channon (grades 1-6), Arthur Creasy (grades 6-10)
1920-1921
Eva M. Astrope (grades 1-5), Samuel Ernest McDowell (grades 6-10)
1921-1922
?
1922-1923
?
1923-1924
?
1924-1925
?
1925-1926
?
1926-1927
?
1927-1928
?
1928-1929
?
1929-1930
?
1930-1931
?
1931-1932
?
1932-1933
?
1933-1934
?
1934-1935
?
1935-1936
?
1936-1937
?
1937-1938
?
1938-1939
?
1939-1940
?
1940-1941
William Charles “Charlie” Rhind (grades 7-11), Ellen Elizabeth Wherrett (grades 1-6)
1941-1942
John Edward “Jack” Dawson (grades 7-11), Ellen Elizabeth Wherrett (grades 1-6)
1942-1943
Elizabeth Johannovna Penner (grades 7-11), Ellen Elizabeth Wherrett (grades 1-6)
1943-1944
Muriel May Lints (grades 1-6), Elizabeth Johannovna Penner (grades 7-11)
1944-1945
Muriel May Lints (grades 1-6), Elizabeth Johannovna Penner (grades 7-11)
1945-1946
Marion Elizabeth Pye (grades 1-6), Stanley Francis Pye (grades 7-11)
1946-1947
Anna Catherine Filion (grades 1-6), William John Filion (grades 7-11)
1947-1948
Harry Herbert Galan (grades 1-6, ?-? [pt Fall 1947]), Georgina Constance Turnbull (grades 1-6, August-June), Francis Alexander Wilson (grades 1-10)
1948-1949
Anna Elizabeth Lockerby (grades 1-6), Francis Alexander Wilson (grades 7-10)
1949-1950
Anna Elizabeth Lockerby (grades 1-6), Soreen Bernhard Jorgensen (grades 7-11)
1950-1951
Albert Huebner (grades 7-11), Isabel Davison Nicholson (grades 1-6)
1951-1952
Albert Huebner (grades 7-11), Isabel Davison Nicholson (grades 1-6)
1952-1953
?
1953-1954
?
1954-1955
?
1955-1956
?
1956-1957
Helen Isabel Burr (grades 5-8), Mavis Andrea Jesperson (grades 1-4), Edward Earl Skabar (grades 9-11)
Solsgirth School, primary building (no date) by G. W. Bartlett
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 64.
Solsgirth School, intermediate building (no date) by G. W. Bartlett
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 64.
The metal sign for the former Solsgirth School (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Solsgirth School building (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of the former Solsgirth School building (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.48618, W100.91422
denoted by symbol on the map above
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), 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.
Obituary [Helen Margaret Dickie], Shoal Lake Star, 18 May 1993, page 11.
We thank Malcolm Bell for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 3 September 2026
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