Historic Sites of Manitoba: South Plympton School No. 81 (RM of Springfield)

The South Plympton School District was organized formally in 1879 and a school building was built the next year on the northeast quarter of 16-10-5 east of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Springfield. In 1900, it was moved one mile west and three-quarters of a mile south. It operated until 1957 when low enrollment caused it to close. The remaining students went to Dugald Consolidated School No. 2427. The district was dissolved in 1964. The former school building was used as a granary.

Teacher who taught at South Plympton School include Miss Laura Aitkenhead (1880), Frank Kiltie (1882), M. Johnson (1883-1885), J. Kerr (1886), J. B. McKee (1887), A. Chisholm (1888), G. Graham (1889), Helen Hislop (1890), H. Halpenny (1891-1892, 1894), A. Robertson (1892), R. M. Riddell (1893), Isabel Robertson (1894), Angus Robertson (1895-1896), E. D. Hudson (1896), M. A. Godley (1897), J. McCormick (1898), D. Martin (1898), M. Thompson (1899-1900), Miss McClure (1901), H. Corbett (1902), M. Philip (1904), C. Egan (1905-1906), A. McKenzie (1907), M. Brains (1908), H. Doubleday (1908), O. Firby (1909), Richard Ellice Brown (1910-1912), A. Umphrey (1913), I. Coles (1914-1916), Miss Robinson (1917), Miss Currie (1918), Miss Godkin (1919), Miss Dyma (1920), Miss Darker (1922), A. Bailey (1922-1923), Miss Dickson (1924), Miss Anderson (1925), Miss Jones (1926), B. Heather (1927-1929), Miss Doherty (1930-1931), Miss Short (1932-1933), E. Lincoln (1934-1935), W. Harvey (1936-1937), Vera Croft (1938-1940), Jean Smith (1941), Yetta Kremis (1942), Ester Miller (1942), M. Main (1942), E. Boldt (1943), M. Williams (1944-1946), O. Susiek (1947-1948), H. Bihr (1949-1951), E. Cook (1952-1954), Howard Pawley (1955), and J. Adams (1956-1957).

South Plympton School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 33. The former South Plympton School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1270. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.82618, W96.86710 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Plympton School / Dugald School No. 80 (Dugald, RM of Springfield)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: North Plympton School No. 98 (RM of Springfield)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dugald Consolidated School No. 2427 (Dugald, RM of Springfield)

Sources:

Springfield: 1st Rural Municipality in Manitoba, 1873-1973 by Dugald Women’s Institute, 1974.

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.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 24 February 2023

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