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Known as Flora School District No. 1534 when it was organized in May 1910, named for early settler Flora Robinson, a small schoolhouse was situated at SW12-19-10W in the Rural Municipality of Alonsa. It became Flora Consolidated School District in 1913 and a new school building was erected at SE11-19-10W. The original building was moved to Harcus where it was renovated into an Anglican church. In 1920, the name was changed to Amaranth Consolidated School and plans were made for a new four-classroom school in Amaranth. Completed by the fall of 1921, it operated until 1953 when it was destroyed by fire. A new school was constructed on the same site and became known as Amaranth Village School (later Amaranth Elementary), to better distinguish it from other schools within the same district. In 1967, it became part of the Turtle River School Division. The school closed in 1981 and students were transferred to the Amaranth Collegiate building. A plaque commemorating the school was erected by the Amaranth History Book Committee in July 1994 on the site of a war memorial.
Period
Principal
1931-1933
Miss L. W. Bradley
1933-1937
Arthur John Charles Starr (1907-1966)
1937-1939
Austin Alfred Dale (1911-2003)
1939-1940
Earl Moses Calverley (1915-2008)
1941-1942
Guy Chauviere (1907-1992)
1942-1943
Winnifred Dunbar
1943-1945
Henry Benjamin Bees (c1886-1968)
1945-1946
William John “Bill” Dutka (?-2008)
1946-1947
Beulah Beryl McNevin (1896-1963)
1947-1948
William J. Menzies
1948-1949
Henry W. Jones
1949-1950
?
1950-1951
Harold Schulz
1951-1953
Thomas Peterson
1953-1954
Joseph “Joe” [Szezygol] Shygol (c1928-1974)
1954-1957
Robert David Wilson
1957-1958
Christine McSherry
1958-1961
Elsie Elaine Butler
1961-1966
?
1966-1967
Alfred Carriere
1967
Harold Wiliam Sibley
1967-1978
?
1978-1981
John Tober
After 1981
Among the other teachers at Amaranth School were George L. Dibblee (1919-1921) and Walter Sherrin Cheslock.
School Year
Teachers
1937-1938
Maxine Curran (grades 1-5), Austin Alfred Dale (grades 6-11)
1938-1939
Austin Alfred Dale (grades 7-11), Grace Melissa Shepherd (grades 1-6)
1939-1940
Earl Moses Calverley (grades 7-11), Grace Melissa Shepherd (grades 1-6)
1940-1941
Earl Moses Calverley (grades 9-11, August-December), Guy Chauviere (grades 9-11, January-June), Olive Cornell Christopherson (grades 4-8, January-June), Georgina Evelyn Crowe (grades 1-3), Elizabeth Gemmill (grades 4-8, August-December)
1941-1942
?
1942-1943
?
1943-1944
?
1944-1945
?
1945-1946
?
1946-1947
?
1947-1948
?
1948-1949
?
1949-1950
?
1950-1951
?
1951-1952
?
1952-1953
?
1953-1954
?
1954-1955
Robert David Wilson (grades 9-11), ? (grades 1-8)
1955-1956
Steve Onyschak (grades 5-8), Robert David Wilson (grades 9-11, September; grades 9-10, October-June), ? (grades 1-4)
1956-1957
C. Cloutier (grade 11, November-June), Robert David Wilson (grades 9-11, August-November; grades 9-10, November-June), ? (grades 1-8)
1957-1958
Laura Elaine Inkster (grade 11), Christine M. McSherry (grades 9-10), ? (grades 1-8)
1958-1959
Elsie Elaine Butler (grade 11), Carmir John Pyra (grades 9-10), ? (grades 1-8)
1959-1960
Alfred Penner (grade 11), Elsie Elaine Butler (grades 9-10), ? (grades 1-8)
1960-1961
Arthur H. Butler (grade 11), Elsie Elaine Butler (grades 9-10), Hertha Evelyn Hintz (grades 9-10), Inez Bonnie Rinn (grade 12)
1961-1962
? (grades 1-8)
1962-1963
? (grades 1-8)
1963-1964
? (grades 1-8)
1964-1965
? (grades 1-8)
1965-1966
? (grades 1-8)
1966-1967
Margaret Ilene Armstrong (grades 6-7), Alfred Carriere (grades 7-8, September-February), Harold Wiliam Sibley (grades 7-8, March-June), ? (grades 1-5)
1967-1968
?
1968-1969
?
1969-1970
?
1970-1971
?
1971-1972
?
1972-1973
?
1973-1974
?
1974-1975
?
1975-1976
?
1976-1977
?
1977-1978
?
1978-1979
Robert Cochrane, Horace James, Arthur McConkey, Phyllis Sahulka, Marilyn Shamuyarira, Diane Sharpe
1979-1980
?
1980-1981
Sister Marie Berlinguette, Horace James, Lucy Passante, Phyllis Sahulka, Marilyn Shamuyarira, Judy Thompson
Amaranth School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 135.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.59807, W98.74092
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Amaranth War Memorial, Schools, and Churches (Amaranth, RM of Alonsa)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Amaranth Collegiate / Amaranth School (Amaranth, RM of Alonsa)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Floral School No. 397 (Municipality of Louise)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Amaranth East topographic map, 62J/10 East, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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.
“Add one position in Turtle R.,” Dauphin Herald, 6 September 1978, page 2.
“Teachers begin year in Turtle River S.D.,” Dauphin Herald, 10 September 1980, page 24.
Seasons of Our Lives, A History of Amaranth and District, Manitoba, Canada by Amaranth Historical Society, 1985.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Amaranth School District No. 1534 - Daily Registers, GR6770, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Amaranth School District No. 1534 (Amaranth Elementary) - Daily Registers, GR6770, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Amaranth School District No. 1534 (Amaranth Collegiate) - Daily Registers, GR6770, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Barbara Botelho and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 11 May 2024
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