The Dunkinville School District was organized formally in April 1925. A one-room wood frame school building, on the southeast quarter of 6-37-24 west of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Municipality of Minitonas-Bowsman, was built in 1925 and opened on 7 December 1925.
The school closed in June 1967. The building is still present at the site, used for storage, and a monument commemorates it.
Teachers who worked at Dunkinville School through the years are listed on the back of the monument: Margaret Thurley Day (1925-1927), Elizabeth Fraser Henderson (1927-1928, 1959-1961), Dorothy Hall (1928-1929), Lila Berg (1929-1931), Elizabeth Michelson (1931-1933), Mary Ingram (1933-1934), Mary King (1934-1936), Hannah Glover (1936-1937), Miss McNabb (1937), Euphemia Fraser Dunnett (1937-1938), Frances McAndrew Gillespie (1938-1940, 1954-1958), Margaret Poole (1940-1941), Jessie McLeod (1941-1942), Amy Cotton (1942-1943), Margaret Gillies (1943-1944), Gwen Allen (1944-1945), Dorothy Sargent (1945-1946), Norma Mullin (1946-1947), Mildred Roye (1947-1948), Zenon Drul (1948-1949), John Atamanchuk (1949-1950), Harry Shafransky (1950-1951), Lois Sandholm (1951-1952), Mr. G. R. McKersie (1952-1953), Shirley Sterma (1953-1954), Ben Yakelashek (1958-1959), and Mike Yakelashek (1961-1967).
Dunkinville School (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 98.
The former Dunkinville School building (July 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Dunkinville School commemorative monument (July 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N52.14374, W100.87086
denoted by symbol on the map above
Tent Town: 1898-1979, A History of Minitonas and District by Minitonas Community Centre Committee, 1979. page 60.
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.
Boots, Buggies & Buses: Swan Valley Schools in Quest of Education, Swan Valley School Division No. 35, circa 1998.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Mary Steinhoff for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 May 2024
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