The Baskerville School District was established in April 1916 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE33-3-5E in what is now the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin. In 1967, the district became part of the Boundary School Division. The school building is no longer present at the site but its shelterbelt of trees and water well remain there.
Among the teachers of Baskerville School were Clarence Alexander Bunton (January-June & October-December 1917), Eli S. Jenkins (February-June, September-October, & November-December 1918), school closed; influenza (4-22 November 1918), Isidore William Goresky (January-June 1919, August 1919 - July 1920, March-July 1921, September 1922 - June 1923, August 1923 - June 1924, & January-February 1924 night school), school closed (8-22 January 1919), Henry N. Powell (October-December 1920), K. Gwozdz (January-March 1921), John H. Enns? [Ennes?] (September 1921), Andrew Hundka (October 1921 - April 1922), school closed; no teacher (12 April - 26 May 1922), Nicholas Punak (Fall 1924 - Spring 1925), John P. Tanchak (Fall 1925 - Spring 1927), N. Rogan (September 1927), Mary C. MacEwen (October-December 1927), Pauline Braschuk (January-June 1928, Fall 1928 - Spring 1931), John Walter Melosk (Fall 1931 - Spring 1934), Anne Roborecki (Fall 1934 - Spring 1935), Effie Pauline Koroluk (Fall 1935 - Spring 1938), Dennis Nazeravich (Fall 1938 - Spring 1939), Emil Joseph Borsa (Fall 1939 - Spring 1941, Fall 1942 - Spring 1943), Peter Pryshun (August-December 1941), school closed; no teacher (2-22 January 1942), Frank Klassen (January-June 1942), Mary P. Paley (Fall 1943 - Spring 1954), Mary Ann Chubey (Fall 1954 - Spring 1956), Elsie Helen Ewanchuk (Fall 1956 - Spring 1957), Miss A. Slusarchuk (August 1957), John F. Harms (September 1957 - June 1958), Roman Dmytro Smook (Fall 1958 - Spring 1959), Mary Mandziuk (Fall 1959 - Spring 1960), Effie Stepaniuk Tataryn (Fall 1960 - Spring 1962), Miss M. T. Darewych (Fall 1962 - Spring 1963), Edward Felix Goletski (Fall 1963 - Spring 1964), Dmytro Tanchak (Fall 1964 - Spring 1965), Lawrence Dan Chubey (Fall 1965 - Spring 1966), and Alice Donna Ostrowsky (Fall 1966 - Spring 1967).
Baskerville School with its teacherage at left (no date) by A. A. Herriot
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 41.
The former site of Baskerville School with its water well visible at right (April 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.25854, W96.85033
denoted by symbol on the map above
St. Malo West topographic map, 62H/7 West, Edition 2, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
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), Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Baskerville School No. 1819 Daily Registers, GR2088, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 10 December 2025
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