The North Star School District was established in March 1901 and it operated a one-room schoolhouse at NE31-3-4E, in what is now the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin, until 1913 when the district was dissolved. It re-formed in May 1922 and the school re-opened, operating until 1937 when it was moved to the southwest corner of the section. It remained there until 1950 when a new structure was built at the former site. The original building was moved to St. Malo where it was renovated into a private residence. The new school building closed permanently in June 1966, the district was dissolved in 1967, and its area became part of the Red River School Division. The building was moved to a farm six miles south of Arnaud and converted into a residence.
Among the teachers who worked at the first North Star School were Henry Herbert McKeen (Fall 1901), records unavailable (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Annie Calder (1903?, pt Fall 1905, Spring-Fall 1906), John Y. Macaulay (Spring 1905), May Taylor (pt Fall 1905), Charles Matheson (Spring 1907), George Lamb (pt Fall 1907), Olive Lyle Archibald (pt Fall 1907, married Hugh Duncan Cumming), Michael P. Morris (Spring 1908), George S. Matthews (Fall 1908 - Spring 1909), Annie E. Hill Wright (Fall 1909 - Spring 1910), Howard Lincoln Brace (Fall 1910 - Spring 1911), Katherine Brewster (Fall 1911), Annie M. Scott (Spring 1912), K. M. Brewster (pt Fall 1912), and Pearl Neely (pt Fall 1912 - Spring 1913).
Among the teachers who worked at the second North Star School were Annie Calder (Fall 1922), Mabel Caldwell (Spring 1923), Marion L. Williams (Fall 1923), Margaret E. Lamont (Spring 1924 - Fall 1925), Miss A. Helen Spear (Spring 1926 - Spring 1927), L. E. “Lilly” Weldon (Fall 1927 - Spring 1928), Alice May Sowery (Fall 1928 - Spring 1930), Mary Charlotte Pinn (Fall 1930 - Spring 1931), Edna May Curran (Fall 1931 - Spring 1933), Peter R. Harder (Fall 1933 - Spring 1935), Gerhard George Baerg (Fall 1935 - Spring 1938), Helen Johannonna? Penner (Fall 1938 - Spring 1940), Mildred Mary Hackland (Fall 1940 - Spring 1942), Donalda Ruth “Donna” Stewart (Fall 1942 - Spring 1943), Inez Blanche Schmidt (Fall 1943 - Spring 1944), Alice Emma Schultz (Fall 1944 - Spring 1945), Katy Dagman Regier (Fall 1945 - Spring 1946), Gervaise R. Catellier (Fall 1947 - Spring 1948), Mary Poetker (Fall 1948 - Spring 1949), Lyall R. Badgley (August-November 1949), Mary Goertz (December 1949, Jane Voth (January-June 1950), Lionell J. Frechette (Fall 1950 - Spring 1951), Martha Peters (Fall 1951 - Spring 1952), Joan E. Stewart (Fall 1952 - Spring 1954), Nancy Estella Barnett (Fall 1954 - Spring 1955), Claire Edna Hogue (Fall 1955 - Spring 1957), Effie Stepaniuk (Fall 1957 - Spring 1960), Armande Marion (Fall 1960 - Spring 1963), and Rennie F. Marion (Fall 1963 - Spring 1966).
North Star School (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 58.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.26568, W97.03020
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Nordur Stjarna School No. 1226 (RM of Coldwell)
Morris East topographic map, 62H/6 East, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
Arnaud Through the Years by Arnaud Historical Society, 1974. [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.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, North Star School No. 1103 - Daily Registers, GR2039, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, North Star School No. 1103 - Cash Books, GR2039, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 23 September 2026
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