Pembina School District # 4863

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On February 27, 1930 the R.M. Of Arborfield approved the boundaries for a new school to be called Pembina. The first meeting of the newly formed Pembina School District was held on Mar. 22, 1930 with 19 ratepayers present.

Debentures amounting to $1800.00 were issued (and all repaid by 1956) and a frame building was constructed at SE17-48-11-W2. The school opened in September 1930 with seventeen students and Mrs Annie Grimson as the teacher with a salary of $850.00 a year. Teacher’s salaries kept dropping until in 1934 it reached $400.00. In 1939 the salary was up to $500.00 and increased to $1000.00 a year in 1943.

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On June 30, 1961, with eight students and teacher, Mrs. Lois Kane, finishing the year, Pembina School was permanently closed and the district children bussed to Arborfield in the fall.

A total of 150 students, 45 families and 17 teachers passed through Pembina’s doors during its 30 years of service in the community.

In 1962 the Pembina Homemaker’s Club purchased the school to use for the district’s social gatherings. Then in 1968, it was sold to Pearl and Hedley Oldrieve who used it as a country-get-away complete with a garden and a few beehives. Pearl still owns the school and allowed a “tour” through it at a reunion in 1966. How small it seemed to the now adult students! How did it ever accommodate the packed concerts, dances and card parties held in it over the years?
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The Teachers:
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Annie Grimson

1930

Anna Dykeman

1931-34

Albert Herron

1934-36

Floyde Caswell

1936-37

Jack Giesbrecht

1937-39

Isabel Deacon

1939-40

Gerald Phillips

1940-42

Eunice Gear

1942-44

Margaret Jackson

1944-45

Arthur McMarten

1945-46

Lillian OཚྭByrne

1946-47

Pearl  Dinnell 

1947-49

Dorothy LeGrand

1949-56

Helen Perrin

1956-58

Leontine Relland

1958-59

Dorothy Cragg

1959-60

Lois Kane

1960-61



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