Historic Sites of Manitoba: Angus School No. 1487 (Angusville, RM of Riding Mountain West)

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The Angus School District was organized formally in February 1909 and a school building was erected at Angusville in what is now the Rural Municipality of Riding Mountain West. The original building was enlarged and later replaced by the present structure. In 1968, it became part of the Pelly Trail School Division. Closed as of 1979, the building appears vacant.

Principals

Period	Principal
1923-1925	Christina Mary McRostie Sinclair (1893-1979)
1925-1928	Victor Harvey Hugo (1888-1972)
1929-1934	Ernest Harvey Reid (1903-1956)
1934-1937	Henry Benjamin Bees (c1886-1968)
1937-1940	Clarence Eric Tibbatts (1904-1979)
1940-1941	Lorne O. Tyndale
1941-1942	Lewis C. Turley
1943-1944	Teresa Moloney (1899-1983)
1944-1946	John Peter Tutkaluke (1914-1994)
1946-1952	Martin Dmytro Chalaturnyk (1920-2011)
1950-1952	?
1952-1958	John Peter Tutkaluke (1914-1994)
1958-1960	A. Kiliwnik
1960-1964	L. Wasilka
1964-1965	A. McTaggart
1965-1966	M. A. Kiliwnik

Teachers

Among the teachers of Angus School were Albin Lucki (late 1930s), Minnie Karasiewich (1936-1942), and Peter Melnyk (1950s).

Photos & Coordinates

Angus School (circa 1910) Source: Education Department Report, 1910, Manitoba Legislative Library. The original Angus School (no date) by G. W. Bartlett Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 126. Front view of the former Angus School building (June 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Rear view of the former Angus School building (June 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.73335, W101.02044 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Silver Creek Centennial Monument (Angusville, RM of Riding Mountain West)

Sources:

“Six Manitobans are casualties,” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 June 1942, page 1.

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, 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.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

Obituary [Peter Melnyk], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 March 2022.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 March 2022

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