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The Whitemouth School District was established in April 1884 and it operated a school in Whitemouth, in what would late become the Rural Municipality of Whitemouth. In 1912, it became Whitemouth Consolidated School and, the following year, a new wood frame building was constructed on a design by Winnipeg architect Eldred Dodsworth Tuttle. The building was destroyed by fire in 1947 and was replaced the following year. The two-storey building was demolished in the early 1960s. The district later became part of the Agassiz School Division.
Principals
Teachers
Period |
Teachers |
1921-1922 |
Charles Herbert Egan (grades 5-8 & night school, August-April), Alma Erickson (grades 2-4), Ellen L. Fraser (grades 1-2), William John Gordon Scott (grades 4-8 & night school, May-June) |
1922-1923 |
David William? Dean? (grades 7-10, 1923), Charles Herbert Egan (grade 9 & night school), Clifford James Garvie (grades 2-4), Gertrude Groening? Irving (grades 4-6), Henry George Mingay (grades 7-10, 1922), Isabel Smith (grades 1-2) |
1923-1924 |
Clifford James Garvie (grades 3-4), Alexander Harkins? (grades 5-8), Gertrude Groening? Irving (grades 3-4), Isabel Smith (grades 1-2) |
1924-1925 |
Mary E. Brennan (grades 1-2), Gertrude Georgina? Irving (grades 3-4), James Randolph Hartley Simms (grades 5-10) |
1925-1926 |
Mary Ellen Bournais (grades 1-2), Mabel Wright Carson (grades 3-4), Charles Foulsham Laine (grades 5-9) |
1926-1927 |
Edith Aglwen? (grades 3-4, September-December), Mary Ellen Brennan (grade 1), Mabel Wright Carson (grades 2-3), Aileen Margaret Donald (grades 4-6, January-June), Charles Foulsham Laine (grades 6-10), ? (grades 4-6, September-December and grades 3-4, January-June) |
1927-1928 |
Mary Ellen Brennan (grade 1), Aileen Margaret Donald (grades 4-5), Elsie Helen Handel (grades 2-3), Charles Foulsham Laine (grades 6-8) |
1928-1929 |
E. Myrtle Burt (grades 5-9), Julia I. Garry (grades 3-4), Stella Safaniuk (grades 1-2) |
1929-1948 |
? |
1948-1949 |
Rudolph Verne Dankesreiter (grades 9-11), Mrs. G. Godolphin (grades 1-2), Miss R. I. Heimann (grade 3-4), Jean Segall (grades 5-6), Oscar Andrew Karl Daniel Wurster (grades 7-8) |
Among the other teachers who worked at Whitemouth School included: Edith A. Fingland (?), Anne Kachur (1945), O. A. Wurster (1945-1950), Theo B. Poole (1945), Abigail Godolphin (1950-1955), Olga Jorgenson (1950), Agathe Loepky (1950), Morley Sparrow (1950), Aileen Huss (1955), Judith Latta (1955), Keith J. Huss (1955), Gordon Henderson (1955), Ada Huett (1960), Karen Delbridge (1960), William Moffatt (1960), Orville Hood (1960), Stanley Petrowski (1960), M. Eileen Molloy (1960), George Papas (1960), William Schultz (1960), Eugene Laurent (1960), Ernest Moffatt (1960), Nicholas Andrusko (1961-1962), Garry Doyle, and Charles Henry Godfrey.
Photos & Coordinates

The Whitemouth School building, destroyed by fire in 1947 (1930s) by R. Goulet
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 47.

Whitemouth School teacherage (1930s) by R. Goulet
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 47.

Whitemouth Consolidated School at left (September 1952) Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7452, Album 18, Page 52.
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.95457, W95.97678 denoted by symbol on the map above
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See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Whitemouth Lake School No. 1672 (RM of Piney)
Sources:
“Tenders for building,” Manitoba Free Press, 4 June 1913, page 2.
“Whitemouth,” Springfield Leader, 31 August 1948, page 4.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Obituary [Charles Henry Godfrey], Portage la Prairie Manitoba Leader, 29 April 1954. [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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Trails to Rails to Highways edited by Bob Porth and Craig MacKenzie, Whitemouth Municipal Museum Society, 1979.
We thank Bob Porth, Randy Rostecki, and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 February 2023
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