Victor School District was formally established in what is now the Rural Municipality of Wallace-Woodworth in March 1898. Local residents had wanted to name it Victoria School, in honour of Queen Victoria, but another rural school with that name already existed so they truncated the name to Victor. A one-room schoolhouse was built during the summer of 1898 and located at the southeast corner of SE10-12-27 West of the Prime Meridian.
Among the teachers of Victor School were Thomas Howse (Fall 1898), Hattie Hume (Spring-Fall 1899), Edith Ann Fingland (Spring 1900 - 1902), Miss Craig (1903), Miss Tunis (1903), ? (Spring-Fall 1904), D. Claude Bell (Spring-Fall 1905), Thomas McDonald (Spring 1906), Annie E. McTavish (Fall 1906, Fall 1907), Eva P. Grant (Spring 1907), Eva Porter (Spring-Fall 1908), Mary P. McCallum (Spring-Fall 1909), Miss L. M. Higginbotham (January-February 1910), James Leonard McQuay (March-July 1910), Elsie Katherine Gardner (August-October 1910), W. A. Evans (October-December 1910 & Spring 1911),Fred James Hall (Fall 1911 - Fall 1914), Elizabeth Usher (Spring 1915 - Fall 1916), Viola Sanford (Spring-Fall 1917), Bertha Sanford (Spring-Fall 1918), Florence Elizabeth Morton (Spring 1919 - Spring 1920), Ella M. McGhie (Fall 1920 - Spring 1922), Alice Medlicott (Fall 1922 - Spring 1923), Gertrude Sandell (Fall 1923 - Spring 1924), Violet L. Reeves (Fall 1924 - Spring 1926), Ethel M. McCormack (Fall 1926 - Spring 1927), Lena Ross McDougall (Fall 1927 - Spring 1929), Helen Margaret Millar (Fall 1929 - Spring 1930), Margaret Emily McGilvray (Fall 1930 - Spring 1933), Ella Evelyn Tapp (Fall 1933 - Spring 1934), Alice Elizabeth Marshall (Fall 1934 - Spring 1936), Ernestine Marguerite Ablett (Fall 1936 - Spring 1945), Marjorie Lorraine Bray (Fall 1945 - Spring 1946), Sheila Ismay McKenzie (Fall 1946 - Spring 1947), Lillian Muriel Callier (Fall 1947 - Spring 1948), Muriel Eleanor Howard (Fall 1948 - Spring 1949), Margaret Lamb (Falll 1949 - Spring 1951), Harvey Samuel Smith (1951-1953), Elizabeth Eileen Swan (1953-1955), Mary Lou Rutherford (1955-1956), Eugene Lester Baker (1956-1957), Bernice Claire Alexander (1957-1958), Lena Ewanyshyn (1958-1960), Sarah Bessie Montgomery (1960-1961), Mary Ellen Roach (1961-1962), Dorothy Mae Paul (1962-1963), and Gloria Beryl Jackson (1963-1965).
The school operated until July 1965 when the school closed and its remaining students went to Elkhorn Consolidated School No. 366 or Virden Consolidated School No. 144. The building was sold and torn down so its lumber could be used to enlarge a nearby private residence. A monument for the school was unveiled on 7 July 1984.
Victor School (no date) by W. R. Beveridge
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 28.
Students and teachers of Victor School (1908)
Source: Duncan Waddell
Victor School commemorative sign (September 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.99025, W101.08064
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Victoria Union School No. 302 (Municipality of Grassland)
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, Victor School No. 949 - Daily Registers, GR0466, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Victor School No. 949 - Minute [and Cash] Book, GR6560, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Victor School No. 949 - Minute Book, GR3433, Archives of Manitoba.
Steel and Grass Roots, 1882-1981 by Elkhorn and District Historical Society, 1982, pages 88-91.
We thank Duncan Waddell for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough
Page revised: 27 Febuary 2026
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