Historic Sites of Manitoba: Tyndall School No. 568 (Tyndall, RM of Brokenhead)

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The Tyndall School District was organized formally in the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead, and a log school building was erected on Tyndall’s Main Street in February 1889. Classes commenced with 24 students under the supervision of teacher John Walker. Increasing enrollment necessitated the construction of a two-storey, two-classroom stone building in 1905, which was used until 1914 when a larger, six-room school was built. This structure was destroyed by fire on 27 September 1958.

Its replacement, a four-classroom structure that became the fourth Tyndall School, was built in 1959 on a design by the Winnipeg architectural firm of Ward and Macdonald. With school consolidation in 1966, classes in grades 4 to 6 were held here, while students in lower grades were bused to Garson and those in grades 7 to 12 went to Beausejour or Selkirk.

Principals

Period	Principal
1906	Helen M. Tracy
1906-1907	Lillian M. Morris
1908-1909	Thomas Clement Jerrom (1871-1958)
1910-1911	Clifford Knox Rogers (1889-1968)
1911	Leslie Ernest Grace (1881-1954)
1912-1913	J. W. Alexander
1913-1914	Edgar Thomas Hegan Mackrell (1882-1968)
1914-1915	Alfred Blakely Gillespie (1870-1939)
1915-1917	Arthur Bailey (1885-?)
1917	Norman Ewart Brett (1881-1957)
1917-1918	L. C. Anderson (?-?)
1918-1922	Fred. A. Justice
1922-1924	Neil Albert McIntyre (1888-1972)
1924	John Erickson (?-?)
1924-1925	Manford George Gutzke (1896-1993)
1926	Leslie Ernest Grace (1881-1954)
1926-1930	Martha Ellen Hamilton Lough (1902-1970)
1930-1931	Thomas Patrick King (1873-1954)
1931-1933	Charles T. Cresswell (1872-1961)
1933-1934	Frederick Adam Hodgkinson (1912-2004)
1934-1936	Elzear Joseph Lavoie (1905-1938)
1936-1940	Norman Ernest Wright (1906-1957)
1940-1943	Alexander Maxwell “Max” Segall (1905-1983)
1943-1944	Bodvar Jon Skuli Bodvarson (1911-1972)
1944-1953	James Ogel Beckstead (1883-1985)
1953-1954	Eldon Irwin Isherwood (1920-1990)
1954-1955	T. E. Peterson
1955-1956	Morris Miroslaw Hryhor (1923-1987)
1956-1959	Ernest Lorne Moffat (1899-1982)
1959-1960	Elta Horn Atkins Borrowman Larson (1901-1993)
1960-1961	Guy Chauviere (1907-1992)

Teachers

Among the early teachers who worked at Tyndall School were John Walker (Spring-Fall 1890), Gertrude Potter (Spring 1891), Emma? McDonald (Fall 1891), Alex Gunn (Spring 1892), C. M. D. MacKinnon [McKinnon?] (Fall 1892 - Spring 1893, Spring-Fall 1894), F? H? Wimberley? (Fall 1893), Herbert Wadge (Spring - pt Fall 1895), Georgie A. Platt (pt Fall 1895), C. E. Huggard (Spring-Fall 1896), and James Thomas Cressey (Spring 1897 - Fall 1901).

Period	Teachers
1902	records unavailable
1903	records unavailable
1904	records unavailable
1905	R. J. McClelland (all grades)
1906	Jennie Lewis (junior grades), Lillian M. Morris (senior grades, Fall), Helen M. Tracy (senior grades, Spring)
1907	Jennie Lewis (junior grades), Lillian M. Morris (senior grades)
1908	Thomas Clement Jerrom (senior grades), Lilliam M. Morris (? grades, Spring), E. J. Millar (? grades, Spring), Grace E. Palmer (junior grades, Fall)
1909	Thomas Clement Jerrom (senior grades), Beatrice E? McColl (junior grades, Fall), Grace Palmer (junior grades, Spring)
1910	Varda M. Burtt (junior grades, Fall), Beatrice E? McColl (junior grades, Spring), Clifford Knox Rogers (senior grades)
1911	Varda M. Burtt (junior grades, Spring), Tena Comrie (junior grades, Fall), Leslie Ernest Grace (senior grades, Fall), Clifford Knox Rogers (senior grades, Spring)
1912	(Spring only): J. W. Alexander (senior grades), Tena Comrie (junior grades)
1912-1913	J. W. Alexander (senior grades), M. Downie (junior grades, Fall), Mary E. Kirkland (junior grades, Spring)
1913-1914	J. M. Baldwin (junior grades, Spring), Mary E. Kirkland (junior grades, Fall), Edgar Mackrell (senior grades)
1914-1915	Edith Cathers (? grades, Spring), Grace Clark (junior grades, Fall; ? grades, Spring), Alfred Blakely Gillespie (senior grades)
1915-1916	Arthur Bailey (grades 4-8), Reta Brown (grade 1, August-December), F. Aleta Finch (grades 2-3), Frances Ada Jones (grade 1, January-June)
1916-1917	Arthur Bailey (grades 4-9), Bessie Perkins (grades 2-3), Frances Ada Jones (grade 1)
1917-1918	L. C. Anderson (grades 5-9, October-June), Norman Ewart Brett (grades 5-9, August-October), Pauline Anita Neily (grades 1-2), B. Morden (grades 3-4, c. September - c. October), Lola Ida Simpson (grades 3-4, October-December), M. Swalwell (grades 3-4, August - c. September)
1918-1919	Cora J. Adams (grades 2-4), B. Dumply (grades 1-2, August-?), Hazel Joyce (grades 1-2, ?-December & January-June), Fred. A. Justice (grades 5-8)
1919-1920	Anne Booth (grades 1-2), Fred. A. Justice (grades 5-9), Hilda Kammrath (grades 2-4)
1920-1921	Doris Burt (grades 1-2), Kathleen Harner Collins (grades 2-4), Fred. A. Justice (grades 5-9)
1921-1922	Agnes S. [F?] Connolly (grades 2-3), Evelyn F. Doak (grade 1), Fred. A. Justice (grades 6-10), Ruby M. Steele (grades 4-5)
1922-1923	Agnes S. Connolly (grades 2-3), Evelyn F. Doak (grades 1-2), Neil Albert McIntyre (grades 6-9), Ruby M. Steele (grades 4-5)
1923-1924	Kathleen Sylvia Collins (grade 1, January-June), Anna D. Lackmance? (grades 2-3, August-December; grades 1-3, January-June), Neil Albert McIntyre (grades 6-9), Ruby M. Steele (grades 4-6, August-December; grades 3-6, January-June), Bertha Stevenson (grade 1, August-December)
1924-1925	Ida I. Claydon (grades 4-6), John Erickson (grades 7-10, September-November), Emily Goodchild (grades 1-2), Manford George Gutzke (grades 7-10, December-June), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-4)
1925-1926	Ida I. Claydon (grades 4-5), Emily Goodchild (grade 1), Leslie Ernest Grace (grades 6-10, January-June), Manford George Gutzke (grades 6-10, August-December), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-3)
1926-1927	Ida I. Claydon (grades 4-6), Audrey Easton (grade 1, January-June), Emily Goodchild (grade 1, August-December), Martha Ellen Hamilton (grades 8-11), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 1-3)
1927-1928	Audrey Easton (grade 1, wife of Ronald Victor Shearer), Kathleen Goodchild (grades 4-6), Martha Ellen Hamilton (grades 8-11), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-3)
1928-1929	Emily Goodchild (grades 1-2), Kathleen Goodchild (grades 4-6), Martha Ellen Hamilton (grades 8-11), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-3)
1929-1930	Emily Goodchild (grade 1), Kathleen Goodchild (grades 4-5, Fall; grades 4-6, Spring), Martha Ellen Hamilton (grades 9-11), Nevada Mattick [Matlick?]( grades 5-8), Ida Ermyntrude Norman (grades 2-4; Fall; grades 2-3, Spring)

Other teachers who worked at Tyndall School were Alex Dunn (?-?), Mr. Miller (?-?), and Laura Thorarinson Armstrong (?-?).

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of the second Tyndall School building (1905) Source: Andrew Cunningham Tyndall School and surroundings (circa 1927) Source: Education Department Report, 1927, Manitoba Legislative Library. Tyndall School (1933) Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7451, Album 18, Page 1. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.08619, W96.65769 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

“Tenders,” Winnipeg Free Press, 5 June 1959, page 45.

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.

Tyndall, Manitoba: 1893-1993 by Tyndall History Book Committee, Steinbach: Derksen Printers, 1993, pages 59-64.

Obituary [Laura Johanna Gudrun Thorarinson Armstrong], Winnipeg Free Press, 10 September 2013.

Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.

Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.

Board of Education meeting minutes and office files (A 0052), GR1622, Archives of Manitoba.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Andrew Cunningham for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 4 October 2023

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