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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.
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)
No information.
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 (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.13356, W99.03422
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Memorable Manitobans: Lloyd Hugh Finch (1904-1967)
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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