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The Starbuck Consolidated School District was organized in August 1909 as a result of consolidation of Holyrood School No. 391, Kinlough School No. 784, and Starbuck School No. 1150. The 10-acre school site bordering the Lasalle River in Starbuck, in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald, was purchased at a cost of $1,000. In 1910, a two-storey building, designed by Winnipeg architect E. D. Tuttle, was constructed of white bricks on a stone foundation. It featured four classrooms, two on each floor, as well as a laboratory, a room for “storage of chemical and physical apparatus,” and a library. Two playrooms were located in the basement, along with two lavatories, a forced-air furnace room, a coal storage room, and a storeroom. The total cost of construction was $17,000 acquired by the sale of old school property and the issue of debentures. It opened in mid-November 1910 under principal Andrew Moore.
Students were justifiably proud of their new school, as illustrated by excerpts from their school song:
Starbuck is up-to-date, she is sailing with the wind,
Progression is our watchword and our rule;
We are marching to success, while others lag behind,
For we’ve faith in our consolidated school.
Chorus:
Hark! Hark! Hark! The children marching!
Hear the rumble of the vans!
For from over hill and vale we can hear the children chant,
Praises for our good consolidated school.
Every morn the vans roll in, with the children fresh and trim
And unload their precious burdens at the door;
And with happy, smiling face, we can work all day with vim,
For we never fear the snowdrift any more.
(Sung to “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching”)
The Starbuck School Board later constructed a separate, one-storey building nearby, now demolished, that was used as a high school.
Architectural plans for the school building are held at the Manitoba Museum.
Principals
Principals (High School / Collegiate / Junior High School)
Teachers
School Year |
Teachers |
1906 |
Lizzie D. Adam |
1907 |
J. Dawson Evelyn, T. H. Halligall, Lillian L. Murray |
1908 |
Charles J. Bowman (grades 4-8), J. Dawson Evelyn (grades 4-8), Lillie A. Winram (grades 1-3) |
1909 |
Charles J. Bowman (grades 4-8), Pearl Nama Broadworth (grades 1-3), Lillie A. Winram (grades 1-3) |
1910 |
Charles J. Bowman (grades 4-8), Lillian Henders (grades 1-5), Andrew Moore (grades 1, 4, 7, 8) |
1910-1911 |
Elva Cowan (grades 1-3), Lillian Henders (grades 4-7), Andrew Moore (grades 1,4,7,8, 1910; grades 8-9, 1911), Nellie L. Young (grades 1-3, 1910) |
1911-1912 |
Uarda M. Burtt (grades 3-7), R. F. Meadows (grades 8-9), Ella B. Wallace (grades 1-3) |
1912-1913 |
Mabel Bradley (grades 3-5, 1913), Uarda M. Burtt (grades 3-6), F. R. Crosland (grades 1-3), A. S. Gibson (grades 7-10, 1912), Helen R. Hayden (grades 1-3, 1913), Levant Thompson (grades 7-10, 1913) |
1913-1914 |
E. Close (grades 4-6), Mildred A. Olsen (grades 4-6, 1914), Levant Thompson (grades 7-10), Lillie A. Winram (grades 1-3) |
1914-1915 |
R. H. Flewelling (grades 7-10), M. E. Houston (grades 1-3, 1915), Lillie A. Winram (grades 1-3, 1914), ? (grades 4-6) |
1915-1916 |
M. E. Houston (grades 1-3), M. E. MacLeod (grades 1-3, 1916), Mildred A. Olsen (grades 4-6), R. H. Flewelling (grades 7-10) |
1916-1917 |
R. H. Ester (grades 8-11), Gladys Houck (grades 4-7), Jean F. McCrea (grades 1-3), Neil D. Reid (grades 8-11, 1916) |
1917-1918 |
Edith A. Fingland (grades 8-11, 1918), Gladys Houck (grades 3-7), Jean F. McCrea (grades 1-3), Edgar Garfield Trick (grades 8-11, 1917) |
1918-1919 |
Francis K. Coleridge (grades 8-10, 1919), Edith A. Fingland (grades 8-10, 1918) Alice Good (grades 1-3), Margaret Trick (grades 4, 6-7) |
1919-1920 |
Alice Good (grades 1-3, 1919), Alice M. Pieper (grades 4-6, 1920), George Robert Farrar Prowse (grades 8-11), Violet P. Ring (grades 1-3, 1920), Marion L. Smith (grades 1-3, 1920), Margaret Trick (grades 4-6, 1919) |
1920-1921 |
Marion J. Reid (grades 6-8), Emma Laura Suttis (grades 8-11), Evelyn Vernon (grades 1-2) |
1921-1922 |
Gladys Frame (grades 3-5), Marion J. Reid (grades 6-8, 1921), Emma Laura Suttis (grades 9-11), C. Thorsteinson (grades 6-8, 1922), Margaret Underhill (grades 1-2) |
1922-1923 |
Gladys Frame (grades 3-5), Emma Laura Suttis (grades 9-11), C. Thorsteinson (grades 6-8), Margaret Underhill (grades 1-2) |
1923-1924 |
Francis Kethel “Frank” Coleridge (grades 8-11), Gladys Frame (grades 3-5), Mrs. A. L. Halland (grades 1-2, 1923), Lara B. Thordarson (grades 5-7, 1924), C. Thorsteinson (grades 5-7, 1923), Margaret Underhill (grades 1-2) |
1924-1925 |
Isabelle B. Allan (grades 3-4, 1945), Francis Kethel “Frank” Coleridge (grades 8-11), Gladys Frame (grades 3-4, 1924), Robert Cecil Paris (grades 8-11, 1925), Lara B. Thordarson (grades 5-7), Margaret Underhill (grades 1-2) |
1925-1926 |
Isabelle B. Allan (grades 3-4), Mary Elizabeth McRae (grades 1-2), Robert Cecil Paris (grades 8-11), Jessie A. Rogers (grades 5-7) |
1926-1927 |
Margaret G. Carmichael (grades 3-5), Mary Elizabeth McRae (grades 1-2), Robert Cecil Paris (grades 8-11), Jessie A. Rogers (grades 5-7) |
1927-1928 |
R. M. Bates (grade 8, 1928), Margaret G. Carmichael (grades 3-5), Oaney? O. Macdonald (grades 5-7, 1928), Mary Elizabeth McRae (grades 1-2), Mildred Agnes Olsen (grade 8, 1928), Robert Cecil Paris (grades 8-11), Jessie A. Rogers (grades 5-7, 1927), Evelyn White (grades 5-7, 1928) |
1928-1929 |
Frances Hall Creighton (grades 5-7, 1928), Lena Hopkins McDonald (grades 5-7, 1929), Mary Elizabeth McRae (grades 1-2), Elmenia Jean Mollard (grades 10-11), Mary M. Murkar (grades 8-9), Mildred Agnes Olsen (grades 3-5) |
1929-1930 |
Elsie May Fellingham (grades 5-6), Doris Genevieve Caswell Gill (grades 3-4), Gladys Lucilla Zell Hamilton (grades 9-11), Mary Elizabeth McRae (grades 1-2), Isabel M. Meineke (grades 1-2), George Owen Owens (grades 7-8) |
1930-1931 |
Elsie May Fellingham (grades 5-6), Doris Genevieve Caswell Gill (grades 3-4), Gladys Lucilla Zell Hamilton (grades 9-11), Mary Elizabeth McRae (grades 1-2), George Owen Owens (grades 7-8) |
1931-1932 |
Elsie May Fellingham (grades 5-6), Doris Genevieve Caswell Gill (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Gladys Hamilton (grades 1-2, 1931), Gladys Lucilla Zell Hamilton (grades 9-11), Amy Agnes Hellingham (grades 1-2), Mary Elizabeth McRae (grades 1-2), George Owen Owens (grades 7-8) |
1932-1933 |
Edith Carlson (grades 5-6, 1933), Elsie May Fellingham (grades 5-6, 1932), Doris Genevieve Caswell Gill (grades 3-4), Gladys Lucilla Zell Hamilton (grades 9-11), Amy Agnes Hellingham (grades 1-2), George Owen Owens (grades 7-8) |
1933-1934 |
Edith Carlson (grades 5-6), Gladys Lucilla Zell Hamilton (grades 9-11), Amy Agnes Hellingham (grades 1-2), Mary Longbottom (grades 3-4), George Owen Owens (grades 7-8) |
1934-1935 |
Edith Carlson (grades 5-6), Gladys Lucilla Zell Hamilton (grades 9-11), Amy Agnes Hellingham (grades 1-2), Maurice Ray Loree (grades 7-8), Mary Solomon (grades 3-4) |
1935-1936 |
Edith Carlson (grades 5-6), Maurice Ray Loree (grades 7-8), Carolyn Frances McCraig (grades 1-2), George Owen Owens (grades 9-11), Mary Solomon (grades 3-4) |
1936-1937 |
Edith Carlson (grades 5-6), Maurice Ray Loree (grades 7-8), Carolyn Frances McCraig (grades 1-2), George Owen Owens (grades 9-11), Mary Solomon (grades 3-4) |
1937-1938 |
Edgar Power Brister (grades 7-8), Carolyn Frances McCraig (grades 1-2), George Owen Owens (grades 9-11), Lorraine Cameron Rodgers (grades 5-6), Mary Solomon (grades 3-4) |
1938-1939 |
Edgar Power Brister (grades 7-8), Robert Alexander Laurie (grades 9-11), Carolyn Frances McCraig (grades 1-2), Lorraine Cameron Rodgers (grades 5-6), Mary Solomon (grades 3-4) |
1939-1940 |
Edgar Power Brister (grades 7-8), Robert Alexander Laurie (grades 9-11), Carolyn Frances McCraig (grades 1-2), Lorraine Cameron Rodgers (grades 5-6), Mary Solomon (grades 3-4) |
1940-1941 |
Edgar Power Brister (grades 7-8), Elsie Claire Dewar (grades 9-10), Marion Isabel Inglis (grades 5-6), Robert Alexander Laurie (grades 9-11), Carolyn Frances McCraig (grades 1-2), Mary Solomon (grades 3-4) |
1941-1942 |
Edith Rae Bartleman (grades 7-8), Margaret Howe (grades 9-10), Marie Valentine Larson (grades 3-4), Robert Alexander Laurie (grades 9-11), Jean Isobel Smith (grades 1-2), Evelyn Anna Trumbla (grades 5-6) |
1942-1943 |
Lillian Mae Brister (grades 9-10), June Staunton Dale (grades 1-2), Marie Valentine Larson (grades 3-5), Willard Ervin Rife (grades 11-12), Evelyn Anna Trumbla (grades 6-8) |
1943-1944 |
Margaret Anne Anderson (grades 1-2), Ethel Wilhelmina Bailey (grades 7-8), Lillian Mae Brister (grades 9-10), Margaret Poole (grades 3-4), Willard Ervin Rife (grades 11-12), Evelyn Anna Trumbla (grades 5-6) |
1944-1945 |
Margaret Anne Anderson (grades 1-2), Ethel Wilhelmina Bailey (grades 7-8), Lillian Mae Brister (grades 9-10), Robert Cameron Mulligan (grades 11-12), Margaret Poole (grades 3-4), Katherine Caroline Weber (grades 5-6) |
1945-1946 |
Rachel Bernice Allinson (grades 3-4, 1946) Margaret Anne Anderson (grades 1-2, 5-6), Verna Irene Arnold (grades 9-10), Eva Lanarche (grades 1-2), Richard “Dick” Moore (grades 11-12), Margaret Poole (grades 3-4, 1945), Katherine Caroline Weber (grades 7-8) |
1946-1947 |
Rachel Bernice Allinson (grades 3-4), Margaret Anne Anderson (grades 5-6), Doris Freda Brooks (grades 1-2), Eva Menzies Lovatt Fallis (grades 11-12), Natalie "Nellie" Sozansky (grades 9-10), Katherine Caroline Weber (grades 7-8) |
1947-1948 |
E. Ruth Blaine (grades 5-6), Marie Margaret Campbell (grades 3-4), John Sigfus Helgason (grades 11-12), Ann Huch (grades 1-2), Natalie "Nellie" Sozansky (grades 9-10), Katherine Caroline Weber (grades 7-8) |
1948-1949 |
E. Ruth Blaine (grades 5-6), Marie Margaret Campbell (grades 3-4), David James “Jim” Fleck (grades 7-8), John Sigfus Helgason (grades 11-12), Ann Huch (grades 1-2), Natalie "Nellie" Sozansky (grades 9-10) |
1949-1950 |
Lorna Doreen Dagg (grades 3-4), Marjorie Anne Dewar (grades 9-10), David James “Jim” Fleck (grades 7-8), John Sigfus Helgason (grades 11-12), Mabel Laura Magnusson (grades 5-6), Doreen Watson (grades 1-2) |
1950-1951 |
Gwendoline Nettie May Corbett (grades 3-4), Maurice Wesley “Moe” Cryderman (grades 11-12), Marjorie Anne Dewar (grades 9-10), David James “Jim” Fleck (grades 7-8), Margaret Aileen MacLean (grades 5-6), Doreen Watson (grades 1-2) |
1951-1952 |
Mary Baoley (grades 5-6), Gwendoline Nettie May Corbett (grades 3-4), Maurice Wesley “Moe” Cryderman (grades 11-12), Marjorie Anne Dewar (grades 9-10), David James “Jim” Fleck (grades 7-8), Ethel Irene Major (grades 1-2) |
1952-1953 |
Louise Marion Bryon (grades 5-6), Marjorie Anne Dewar (grades 9-10), David James “Jim” Fleck (grades 7-8), Marie Houston (grades 3-4), Rudolf Ewald “Rudy” Mehmel (grades 11-12), Helen Elsie Schellenberg (grades 1-2) |
1953-1954 |
Louise Marion Bryon (grades 5-6), Marjorie Anne Dewar (grades 9-10), David James “Jim” Fleck (grades 7-8), Marie Houston (grades 3-4), Helen Elsie Schellenberg (grades 1-2), Colin Sinclair Walley (grades 11-12) |
1954-1955 |
Shirley Jean Bellmore (grades 1-2), Robert Garth Bishop (grades 7-8), Lorraine Grace Durant (grades 5-6), Marie Houston (grades 3-4), Jake H. Wedel (grades 9-11), Colin Sinclair Walley (grades 11-12) |
1955-1956 |
Shirley Jean Bellmore (grades 1-2), Josephine Lorraine Girardin (grades 5-6), Marie Houston (grades 3-4), Wilma Kathleen Simms (grades 7-8), Colin Sinclair Walley (grades 11-12), Jake H. Wedel (grades 9-10) |
1956-1957 |
Shirley Jean Bellmore (grades 1-2), Josephine Lorraine Girardin (grades 5-6), Richard Allan Hanke (grades 7-8), Marie Houston (grades 2-4), Orval Alexander Refvik (grades 9-10), Colin Sinclair Walley (grades 11-12) |
1957-1958 |
Mrs. J. Girardin (grades 5-6, 1957), Ethel Wilhelmina Houston (grades 5-6), Marie Houston (grades 3-4), Stanley Robert Kitchen (grades 11-12), Orval Alexander Refvik (grades 9-10), Jacob Wiebe (grades 7-8), Melina Wiebe (grades 1-2) |
1958-1959 |
Abram Bergen (grades 9-10), Deloris Schroeder Goerzen (grades 3-4), Ethel Wilhelmina Houston (grades 7-8), Stanley Robert Kitchen (grades 11-12), Lillian J. McGill (grades 5-6), Melina Wiebe (grades 1-2) |
1959-1960 |
Elsie Enns (grades 5-6), Deloris Schroeder Goerzen (grades 3-4), Ramsay Ramroop Gopaul (grade 9), Ethel Wilhelmina Houston (grades 7-8), Stanley Robert Kitchen (grades 10-12), Elizabeth J. Marchant (grade 9, 1960), Melina Wiebe (grades 1-2) |
1960-1961 |
Elementary school: Elsie Enns (grades 5-6), Margaret Isabel Gopaul (grades 1-2), Ethel Wilhelmina Houston (grades 7-8), Margaret Aileen Houston (grades 3-4). High school: Martial Allard (grade 9), Ramsay Ramroop Gopaul (grade 10), Raymond Harold Turner (grades 11-12) |
1961-1962 |
Elementary school: Elsie Enns (grades 5-6), Ethel Wilhelmina Houston (grades 7-8), Margaret Aileen Houston (grades 3-4), Donna Patricia Orpin (grades 1-2). High school: Martial Allard (grade 10), Raymond Harold Turner (grades 11-12), Glenyce Irene Tweed (grade 9) |
1962-1963 |
Elementary school: Elsie Enns (grades 5-6), Patricia Anne Fast (grades 1-2), James H. Hunter (grades 7-8), Margaret Aileen Houston (grades 3-4), Joy Margaret Tosh (grades 2-3). High school: Martial Allard (grade 10), Raymond Harold Turner (grades 11-12), Glenyce Irene Tweed (grade 9) |
1963-1964 |
Elementary school: Shirley Anne Andrews (grades 2-3), Joan Diana Clifford (grades 5-6), Patricia Anne Fast (grades 1-2), Margaret Aileen Houston (grades 3-4), Kenneth Sherman Switzer (grades 7-8). Collegiate: Norman Arnold Bugge (grades 9-10, 1963; grade 9, 1964), Abram Enns (grade 12), ? (grades 10-11) |
1964-1965 |
Elementary school: Shirley Anne Andrews (grades 2-3), Margaret Aileen Houston (grades 4-5), Victoria Marie "Vicki" Lipinski (grades 1-2), Helena Marguerite Snead (grades 5-6), Kenneth Sherman Switzer (grades 7-8). Collegiate: Norman Arnold Bugge (grade 9), Fiona Alethea Fallon (grade 10), Dennis David Weizel (grades 11-12) |
1965-1966 |
Elementary school: Donna-Marie Guilbert (grades 4-5), Margaret Aileen Houston (grades 4-5), Victoria Marie “Vicki” Lipinski (grades 1-2), Frank Nicholas Lupkowski (grades 5-6), Kenneth Sherman Switzer (grades 7-8). Collegiate: Henry Clinton Gajadhar (grade 10), Olive Geppert (grade 10, 1966), Dennis David Weizel (grades 11-12) |
1966-1967 |
Elementary school: Elsie Balazovic (grades 5-6), Donna-Marie Guilbert (grades 4-5), Agnes Kehler (grades 2-3), Victoria Marie “Vicki” Lipinski (grades 1-2), Frank Nicholas Lupkowski (grades 7-8). Collegiate: Henry Clinton Gajadhar (grade 10), Wesley Sterling McGill (grade 9), Franz Julius Solmundson (grades 11-12) |
1967-1968 |
Elementary school: Elsie Balazovic (grades 5-6), Donna-Marie Guilbert (grades 4-5), Victoria Marie “Vicki” Lipinski (grades 1-2), Frank Nicholas Lupkowski (grades 7-8), Agnes Wiebe (grades 2-3). Collegiate: Patricia Anna Harseny (grade 10), Franz Julius Solmundson (grades 11-12), Walter Abram Toews (grade 9) |
1968-1969 |
Elementary school: Louise Noella Desilets (grades 4-5), Victoria Marie Lipinski “Vicki” Frantz (grades 1-2), Mary Ellen Livingston (grades 2-3), Frank Nicholas Lupkowski (grades 7-8), Denise Annette Vier (grade 6). Collegiate: Barry Lynn Dunn (grade 9), Jane Elizabeth Simpson (grade 10), Walter Abram Toews (grades 11-12) |
1969-1970 |
Elementary school: Edith Isabel Bannerman (grades 3-4), Louise Noella Desilets (grade 2), Victoria Marie Lipinski “Vicki” Frantz (grade 1), Frank Nicholas Lupkowski (grades 5-6). Junior high school: Murray Ralph Forrest (grade 8), Walter Abram Toews (grade 9), Denise Annette Vier (grade 7) |
1970-1971 |
Elementary school: Victoria Marie Lipinski “Vicki” Frantz (grade 1), Louise Noella Desilets Qually (grades 2-3), ? (grades 4-6). Junior high school: Barbara Ann Brooks (grade 8), Walter Abram Toews (grade 9), Denise Annette Vier (grade 7) |
1971-1972 |
Elementary school: Edith Isabel Bannerman (grades 3-4), Victoria Marie Lipinski “Vicki” Frantz (grades 1-2), Linda Karen Hammerback (grades 2-3), Rosalind Martha Malcolm (kindergarten), ? (grades 5-6). Junior high school: Peter Deczycia (grade 9), Janis Lillian McMorran (grade 7), Walter Abram Toews (grade 8) |
Photos & Coordinates

The original Starbuck School (circa 1910)
Source: Education Department Report, 1910, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Starbuck Consolidated School (circa 1910) Source: Gwen Sproule

Starbuck Consolidated School (no date)
Source: Walter Herbert (Phill Hoxie)

Students in front of Starbuck Consolidated School (circa 1911)
Source: Rowena Jones

Starbuck School, now a multipurpose educational facility and community ice and curling rink (June 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Starbuck High School, located immediately east of the Consolidated School building, later used for lower grades and as a senior centre, demolished in the 1990s (1968)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Starbuck 8.

The former Starbuck High School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 640.

Report card for a student from Starbuck Consolidated School (November 1911)
Source: Rowena Jones
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.77422, W97.62452 denoted by symbol on the map above
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See also:
The Building of Starbuck Consolidated School No. 1150 by Brian Gouriluk
Manitoba History, Number 65, Winter 2011
Manitoba Organization: Morris-Macdonald School Division School District No. 19
Sources:
Tenders, Manitoba Free Press, 25 February 1910, page 2.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Consolidation of Rural Schools in Manitoba: Special Report of the Department of Education for the Year 1912, Manitoba Legislative Library, Manitoba SpR 1912 Rural Schools.
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.
“Celebrating the contributions of rural permit teachers,” The Valley Leader, 3 June 2009.
Manitoba School Records Collection (GR0638), Starbuck School District No. 1150 Daily Registers, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (Schedule: E 0757), GR 1628, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Randy Rostecki, Phill Hoxie, Cindy Nachtigall, Rowena Jones, and Roland Sawatzky for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 19 November 2022
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