Historic Sites of Manitoba: Clearwater School No. 106 (Clearwater, Municipality of Louise)

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The Clearwater School District was established formally in November 1880, and a school building was erected in the old village of Clearwater, on the east side of the creek, in what is now Municipality of Louise. The first teacher was William Galagher, earning a salary of $380 per year. In 1898, a two-classroom schoolhouse was built to the east of the present school building. That building, designed by architect Lloyd Hugh Finch and built in 1953, was closed as of 2001.

The building is now used for community activities. As rural schools from the surrounding countryside closed, their students came here: The Oaks School No. 412, Cypress School No. 175, Crystal River School No. 243, Mount Prospect School No. 249, and St. Lawrence School No. 646.

Principals

Period

Principal

1897-1900

Harry Harvey Greenway (1879-1906)

1900-1901

Thomas Dorwick Brown (1875-1931)

1901-1902

Washburn Van Dusen (1869-?)

1902-1903

Harry Harvey Greenway (1879-1906)

1903-1904

J. O. McGregor

1904-1905

Jessie J. McKenzie

1905-1906

William Bell

1906-1907

D. A. Grant

1907-1908

Howard A. Everts

1908-1909

R. M. Archer

1909-1910

Alfred James Struthers (1889-1979)

1910-1912

?

1912-1916

Andrew Moore (1890-1974)

1916-1918

Nellie Holden

1918-1920

Miss M. E. Trites

1920-1923

George Archibald Coulthard (1890-1964)

1923-1925

Alfred Jay Anderson (1901-1968)

1925-1926

Omar Ernest Campbell (1868-1936)

1926-1928

George Gilbert Perry (1892-1971)

1928-1929

Mary J. Perry

1929-1937

Robert MacLaren Keswick (1894-1938)

1937-1940

Lewis Emmett Lynd (1876-1961)

1940-1945

John Franklin Morrison (1910-1984)

1945-1948

Joseph A. McCracken (1911-1991)

1948-1950

Larry B. Clarke

1950-1952

Allan Joseph Sargeant (1918-1998)

1952-1955

Maurice Peter Kalushka (1918-2002)

1955-1956

Dorothy Ellen Swinburne Levine (c1905-1971)

1956-1957

Abe J. Friesen

1957-1958

Maurice Kohut (1926-2020)

1958-1965

Ernest Joseph Hafichuk (1928-2016)

Teachers

No information.

Photos & Coordinates

Clearwater School building, constructed in 1898

Clearwater School building, constructed in 1898 (no date)
Source: Captured Memories: A Pictorial History of the R.M. of Louise by Pilot Mound Museum, 2000. [Copy at Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.L69 Cap]

Clearwater School building, closed as of 2001, and the bell from its predecessor

Clearwater School building, closed as of 2001, and the bell from its predecessor (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.13356, W99.03422
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Lloyd Hugh Finch (1904-1967)

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

“Clearwater, Man”, Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map by Charles E. Goad, Toronto & Montreal, May 1910, Library and Archives Canada.

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.

Captured Memories: A Pictorial History of the R.M. of Louise by Pilot Mound Museum, 2000. [Copy at Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.L69 Cap]

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 September 2021

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