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Known as the Mersey School District when it was organized in February 1920, the district was renamed Chortitz at an unknown time by at least 1940. It operated a school in the village of Chortitz in the Rural Municipality of Stanley. The building dates from around 1925 and, at the time of a visit in 2012, is still being used as a school.
Period
Principal
1940-1941
?
1941-1944
Margaret Reimer
1944-1946
Kate Bertha Janzen
1946-1947
William F. Derksen
1947-1949
Anna Reimer
1949-1951
Isaac Dyck
1951-1952
Gerhard “Jerry” Hildebrand (1929-2016)
1952-1953
Mary Froese
1953-1955
Helen Goertzen
1955-1959
John Enns
1959-1961
Larry Neufeld
1961-1962
Menno Isaac
1962-1964
Albert F. Schulz
1964-1965
Gerhard A. Hildebrand
1965-1966
David W. “Dave” Bueckert
1966-1968
Bruno Mekelbung
Period
Teachers
1940-1941
Helena Derksen (grades 3-4), Elizabeth Dyck (grades 1-2, & 5), ? (grades 6-9)
1941-1942
Mildred Ens (grades 1-3), Justine Reimer (grades 3-5), Margaret Reimer (grades 5-9)
1942-1943
Mildred Ens (grades 1-3), Margaret Reimer (grades 4-9)
1943-1944
Justine Reimer (grades 1-3), Margaret Reimer (grades 4-9)
1944-1945
Irene Janzen (grades 1-3), Kate Bertha Janzen (grades 4-8)
1945-1946
Irene Janzen (grades 1-3), Kate Bertha Janzen (grades 4-8)
1946-1947
William F. Derksen (grades 4-9), Mary Klassen (grades 1-3)
1947-1948
June Marion Helen Hamm (grades 1-3), Anna Reimer (grades 4-9)
1948-1949
Catherine Dyck (grades 1-3), Anna Reimer (grades 4-9)
1949-1950
Isaac Dyck (grades 4-10), George P. Krahn (grades 1-3)
1950-1951
Isaac Dyck (grades 4-9), H. Grace Siemens (grades 1-3)
1951-1952
Gerhard “Jerry” Hildebrand (grades 4-8), H. Grace Siemens (grades 1-3)
1952-1953
Margaret Friesen (grades 1-3), Mary Froese (grades 4-8)
1953-1954
Helen Ens (grades 3-5), Margaret Friesen (grades 1-2), Helen Goertzen (grades 6-8)
1954-1955
Helen Ens (grades 3-5), Margaret Friesen (grades 1-3), Helen Goertzen (grades 6-9)
1955-1956
John Enns (grades 6-10), Rita Klassen (grades 1-3), Helen Reimer (grades 3-5)
1956-1957
John Enns (grades 6-10), Rita Klassen (grades 1-3), Helen Reimer (grades 4-5)
1957-1958
John Enns (grades 6-9), Eleanor Neufeld (grades 1-3), Larry Neufeld (grades 3-5)
1958-1959
John Enns (grades 7-10), Eleanor Neufeld (grades 1-3), Larry Neufeld (grades 4-6)
1959-1960
Matilda Janice Dueck (grades 1-3), Anne Klassen (grades 3-6), Larry Neufeld (grades 7-9)
1960-1961
Matilda Janice Dueck (grades 1-3), Anne Klassen (grades 4-6), Larry Neufeld (grades 7-9)
1961-1962
Matilda Janice Dueck (grades 1-3), Evelyn Agnes Isaac (grades 4-6), Menno Isaac (grades 7-9)
1962-1963
Matilda Janice Dueck (grades 1-3), Anton Penner (grades 4-6), Albert F. Schulz (grades 7-10)
1963-1964
Martha Brandt (grades 4-6), Matilda Janice Dueck (grades 1-3), Albert F. Schulz (grades 7-9)
1964-1965
Martha Brandt (grades 1-2), Gerhard A. Hildebrand (grades 6-8), Marianne Kliever (grades 3-5)
1965-1966
Martha Brandt (grades 1-2), David W. “Dave” Bueckert (grades 6-8), Marianne Kliever (grades 3-5)
1966-1967
Marianne Kliever (grades 3-5), Helen Loewen (grades 1-2), Bruno Mekelbung (grades 6-8)
1967-1968
Helen Loewen (grades 1-2), Bruno Mekelbung (grades 6-8), ? (grades 3-5)
Chortitz School (no date)
Source: Chortitz Memories, 1875-2002, Winkler: Chortitz Cemetery Cairn Committee, 2002.
The former Chortitz School (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1088.
Chortitz School (November 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.12762, W97.97648
denoted by symbol on the map above
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, Chortitz School No. 1997 Daily Registers, GR2656, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Marjorie Hildebrand for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 14 February 2021
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