Historic Sites of Manitoba: Braddock School No. 2136 (RM of Yellowhead)

The Braddock School District was organized formally in July 1925, and a school building operated on the northeast quarter of 30-18-22 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Rural Municipality of Yellowhead. It closed in 1962 and was moved a half kilometer northwest to its present site. A commemorative monument has been erected on the former school grounds while the former schoolhouse stood vacant at N50.57891, W100.48965 at the time of a July 2012 site visit.

Among the teachers of Braddock School were Zelma Peden (1926-1927), Henry F. Hyson (1928), Karl Eric Chambers (1928), Elizabeth Stevenson (1928-1929), John Karasivich (1930), Stephanie Kepron (1930-1931), Emily Mildred Surby (1932-1934), William Raginski (1934-1935), Ann Bosiak (1935-1937), Nicholas Danyluk (1937-1940), Nicholas Pereski (1940-1941), Annie Luhovey Polos (1943-1944), Nicholas Rebenchuk (1945-1946), Margaret Kiez (1946-1947), Marie Marjorie Zatylny (1947-1948), Anne B. Shwaluk (1948-1950), Lois Faith Hope Tutkaluk (1951-1951), Stanley Plewak (1951-1952), Joseph Borody (1952-1953), Grace Isobel Smith (195-1954), Walter Manulak (1954-1956), Howard Zink (1956-1957), Olga K. Kowalchuk (1957-1958), and Leonard P. Maydaniuk (1958-1960).

Braddock School

Braddock School (no date) by J. W. Clarke
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 101.

The former Braddock School building

The former Braddock School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1320.

The former Braddock School building

The former Braddock School building (July 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Interior of the former Braddock School building

Interior of the former Braddock School building (July 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Interior of the former Braddock School building

Interior of the former Braddock School building (July 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Braddock School commemorative monument

Braddock School commemorative monument (May 2019)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.57568, W100.48521
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Braddock School District No. 2136 Daily Registers, GR2061, Archives of Manitoba.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 11 May 2019

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