Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dufresne School / Elie School No. 961 (Elie, RM of Cartier)

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Known as the Dufresne School District when it was established in June 1898, a school operated at Elie in the Rural Municipality of Cartier. It was renamed Elie School District in September 1916. It became the Elie Consolidated School District No. 2383 in 1960.

Closed around 1988, the school building has since been demolished.

Principals

Period

Principal

1937-1945

Eleanor Page (1890-1974)

1945-1946

Sister M. St. Robert

1946-1949

Bertha Cadieux

1949-1950

Sister M. St. Louise

1950-1951

Sister M. St. Robert

1951-1952

Sister M. St. Germaine

1952-1955

Sister Mary Henriette

1955-1956

Sister M. St. Louise

1956-1957

Sister M. Jean d’Avila

1957-1958

Sister M. St. Louise

1958-1959

Sister M. Jean d’Avila

1959-1960

Paul R. Regnier

1960-1961

Sister M. St. Bernard

1961-1982

?

1982-1985

Judith Ann Stasynec

1985-1986

Sherry Lee Elliott

1986-1988

Judith Ann Stasynec

Teachers

Among the teachers at Elie School was Stanley Humeny.

Photos & Coordinates

Elie School

Elie School (no date) by E. D. Parker
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 31.

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.90038, W97.75983
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

Elie East topographic map, 62H/13, Edition 2, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].

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.

Obituary [Stanley Humeny], Winnipeg Free Press, 3 December 1996, page 32.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 29 March 2022

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