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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Armstrong School No. 1833 (RM of Alonsa)The Armstrong School District was established formally in April 1916 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW21-20-13W in the Rural Municipality of Alonsa. In 1936, it became part of the McCreary Municipal School District and later the Turtle River School Division. The school closed in 1967 but the building remained at the site until at least 2003 but it was gone at the time of a 2015 site visit. A commemorative monument was erected nearby in August 2000. Among the teachers of Armstrong School were Anthony Besarabowicz (1916), Mr. Mikatiuk, John Hawryluik (1917-1918), Mr. Mykituik (1918-1919), John Swyryd (1919-1921), Mr. Stark (1921-1922), Mr. McNeil (1922-1923), Mr. Laycock (1924-1925), Frank C. Harrison (1926-1927), Joseph T. Smith (1927-1928), Gregory W. Sinclair (1928-1930), Jacob P. Rempel (1930-1932), Emma J. Haggerty (1932-1934), M. Swirski (1934-1935), Audrey Joan Grove, John G. Siemens, John L. Semeniuk (1935-1938), Wilfred C. Hodkinson (1938-1939), Sigurdur Sigurdson (1939-1940), John C. Gottfried (1940-1941), Winnifred Dunbar (1941-1942), Mary Uranick (1942-1943), Eva Lesawich (1943-1944), Vyda Dring (1944-1945), Ethel Buchanan, J. Louise Noiseaux (1945-1946), Paul Rudiak (1946-1948), Harold Fehr (1948-1949), Irene Swidinsky (1949-1950), Walter Kopytko (1950-1951), Annie Twerdochlib (1951-1952), Anthony Luhawich, Mrs. A. Schulz, Morris Hykaway (1952-1953), Steve Onyschak (1953-1954), Viola Marciski (1954-1955, 1959-1960), Merle Watt (1955-1957), Mike Byrka (1957-1958), Brian Bray (1961-1962), Mr. T. Wiens (1963-1964), and Elsie Bradley (1964-1967).
Sources:McCreary: Milestones and Memories by McCreary History Book Committee, 1987, page 156. 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. Tracks of Time: Glenella and Districts by Glenella History Committee, 1990, pages 134-136. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.G65 Tra] This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 8 August 2023
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