Historic Sites of Manitoba: Erickson School No. 1366 / Erickson Consolidated School No. 2405 / Erickson Elementary School (Erickson, RM of Clanwilliam-Erickson)

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Known as Erikson School District when it was established formally in May 1906, classes were first held in a log building on the farmstead known as Bergwall Place, within the southwest quarter-section of 4-18-18 West in what is now the of Municipality of Clanwilliam-Erickson, while the first schoolhouse in Erickson was under construction. These distant temporary quarters were replaced in 1907 with a new wooden frame building (measuring 20 feet by 30 feet) situated upon five acres of land donated by Peter Abel, located along the northern boundary of the southeast quarter-section in 32-17-18 West. It remained in service until 1919, when a new school was completed on the school grounds. The old building was sold via auction to Charlie Johnson in November 1919, who in turn utilized the building for his hardware store, later renamed (and still standing as of 1984) as part of Erickson Hardware.

Built and opened in 1919, construction of the two-storey four-room school was lead by Charlie Carlson. The building, of which front elevation was offset from Main Street, featured three fully furnished classrooms, with the fourth room being used as a gymnasium until 1927, by which time attendance had grown sufficiently for its conversion into a formal classroom. A science room was housed within the corner tower. By 1947, additional space was rented in the Legion Hall on Main Street. Two additional classrooms were added in the 1950s and the basement of the school converted into an auditorium. In 1956, the district purchased the Benny Johnson residence (later the Rumak residence) for use as a teacherage, though sold it for $6,000 in 1962 to Edna Allen. The district was renamed the Erickson School District in 1953. It become Erickson Consolidated School No. 2405 when, in 1962, it was consolidated with Hill Top School No. 801 and Round Lake School No. 1664. In early 1964, high school grades were transfered to the new Erickson Collegiate. The building, later known locally as the “Yellow School”, was used until the June 1977. Around a year later, it was sold for salvageable materials to the Rolling River First Nation, with re-purposed materials being used for construction on its reservation.

The present single-storey elementary school cost $180,000 and opened to students on 6 September 1966. In 1968, it joined the Rolling River School Division. Also in 1968, the Clear Creek School was moved adjacent (at 50.49769, -99.91197) and used as a kindergarten classroom.

Principals (Erickson School / Erickson High School)

Period	Principal
1918	Benjamin Franklin Privat (1899-1963)
1919-1923	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (1892-1981)
1923-1924	William Lineham Logan (1898-1987)
1924-1929	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (1892-1981)
1930	Lewis Emmett Lynd (1876-1961)
1930-1931	Tordur “Theodore” Sigurdson (1896-?)
1931-1933	Harold Preston Moffat (1906-1998)
1933-1935	Robert Stanley “Stan” McGill (1909-1994)
1935-1936	Keith Ian Sanburn Smith (c1908-1972)
1936-1938	Henry Joseph Grenon (1881-1981)
1938-1942	Leslie Irving Spear (1906-1973)
1942-1943	Nora Edith Sankey (1916-1996)
1943-1945	Helen Margaret Murchie Dickie (1912-1993)
1945-1948	Chester MacMillan Fraser (1904-1975)
1948-1949	Alice Marie Rousseau Perras (1918-1983)
1949-1951	Martin Stamler (?-2007)
1951-1952	Abiah Davies Morgan (1899-1967)
1952-1953	Calvin Robertson Sumerville
1953-1956	Teresa Moloney (1899-1983)
1956-1959	Nicholas Yarish (1924-2012)
1959-1963	Benjamin J. T. F. “Ben” Ward
1963 onward	See Erickson Collegiate

Principals (Erickson School / Erickson Elementary)

Period	Principal
1963-1965	Lorne A. Mackedenski
1965-1966	?
1966-1967	Walter Yanchycki
1967-2018	?

Teachers (Erickson School / Erickson Collegiate)

Period	Teachers
1906	Dorothy Hanson (grades 1-2)
1907	Mabel Hanson (grades 1-4)
1908	Martha McBain (grades 1-6)
1909	Martha McBain (grades 1-6)
1910	Edna Schrear (grades 1-6)
1911	Phoebe Black (grades 1-7)
1912	Nellie Cameron (grades 1-6)
1913	(Spring only): Belle E. Hanson (grades 1-6)
1913-1914	Belle E. Hanson (grades 1-6, 1913), Lydia Wikdahn (grades 1-6, 1913), Nesta Wood (grades 1-6, 1914)
1914-1915	Nesta Wood (grades 1-6)
1915-1916	G. M. Anderson (grades 1-7, 1916), W. R. R. Simmons (grades 1-7, 1915)
1916-1917	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 1-6)
1917-1918	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 1-8), C. W. Johnson (grades 1-2, 1918), Benjamin Franklin Privat (grades 1-8, 1918; grades 3-8, 1918)
1918-1919	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 3-8, 1919), Nina Marion McMorran Anderson (grades 1-2, 1919), C. W. Johnson (grades 1-2, 1918), Benjamin Franklin Privat (grades 3-8, 1918)
1919-1920	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 4-8), M. Jean Frame (grades 1-3)
1920-1921	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 4-8), M. Jean Frame (grades 1-3, 1920), Olive E. Robinson (grades 1-3, 1921)
1921-1922	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 6-9), Elizabeth I. Craig (grades 1-2), Olive E. Robinson (grades 3-5)
1922-1923	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 8-10), Delmar Kathleen Erickson (grades 4-6, wife of J. A. Barry), Esther Victoria Lofquist (grades 1-3), Jessie May Smith (grades 4-6, 1923)
1923-1924	William Lineham Logan (grades 8-11), Esther Victoria Lofquist (grades 1-3), Jessie May Smith (grades 4-6)
1924-1925	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 8-10), Esther Victoria Lofquist (grades 1-3), Jessie May Smith (grades 4-6)
1925-1926	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 9-11), Esther Victoria Lofquist (grades 1-3), Jessie May Smith (grades 4-8)
1926-1927	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 9-11), Viola C. Delgatty (grades 1-3), Janet H. MacMorran (grades 4-7)
1927-1928	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 9-11), Annie Christine Victoria Carlson (grades 3-5), Viola C. Delgatty (grades 6-8), Mary Emily Merrell (grades 1-2)
1928-1929	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 9-11), Annie Christine Victoria Carlson (grades 3-5), Mary Emily Merrell (grades 1-2), Florence Jean Pedersen (grades 6-8)
1929-1930	Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (grades 9-11, 1929), Lewis Emmett Lynd (grades 9-11, 1930), Rita L. McBratney (grades 3-5), Mary Emily Merrell (grades 1-2, 1929), Florence Jean Pedersen (grades 6-8), Ilene M. Thomson (grades 1-2, 1930)
1930-1931	Rita L. McBratney (grades 3-5), Florence Jean Pedersen (grades 6-8) Tordur “Theodore” Sigurdson (grades 9-11), Ilene M. Thomson (grades 1-2)
1931-1932	Laura Ruth Cassady (grades 1-2, 1921; grades 1-3), Rita L. McBratney (grades 4-5, 1931), Harold Preston Moffat (grades 9-11), Florence Jean Pedersen (grades 3-5), ? (grades 6-8)
1932-1933	Laura Ruth Cassady (grades 1-2), Ethel Ruth Jury (grades 3-5), Harold Preston Moffat (grades 9-11), Hazel Anne Robinson (grades 6-8)
1933-1934	Laura Ruth Cassady (grades 1-2), James Irving Bateman (grades 6-8), Ethel Ruth Jury (grades 3-5), Robert Stanley “Stan” McGill (grades 9-11)
1934-1935	Laura Ruth Cassady (grades 1-2), James Irving Bateman (grades 6-8), Ethel Ruth Jury (grades 3-5), Robert Stanley “Stan” McGill (grades 9-11)
1935-1936	Laura Ruth Cassady (grades 1-2), Elsie Ida Nora Hall (grades 3-5), Douglas Gordon Pomeroy (grades 6-8), Keith Ian Sanburn Smith (grades 9-11)
1936-1937	Laura Ruth Cassady (grades 1-5; 1936-1937; grades 3-5, 1937), Henry Joseph Grenon (grades 9-11), Elsie Ida Nora Hall (grades 6-8), Barbara Mary Welman (grades 1-2, 1937)
1937-1938	Eva Monica Anderson (grades 6-8), Elizabeth “Beth” Copley (grades 1-2), Henry Joseph Grenon (grades 9-11), Freda Marion Martin (grades 1-5, 1937; grades 3-5)
1938-1939	Eva Monica Anderson (grades 6-8), Elizabeth “Beth” Copley (grades 1-2), Freda Marion Martin (grades 3-5), Leslie Irving Spear (grades 9-11)
1939-1940	Wilda Roberta Anderson (grades 3-5), Elizabeth “Beth” Copley (grades 1-2), Edith Margaret Miller (grades 6-8), Leslie Irving Spear (grades 9-11)
1940-1941	Wilda Roberta Anderson (grades 5-8), Elizabeth “Beth” Copley (grades 1-4), Edith Margaret Miller (grades 6-8), Leslie Irving Spear (grades 11-12), Duncan Hector Stewart (grades 9-10)
1941-1942	Elsie Ida Nora Hall (grades 1-4), V. Miller (grades 1-4, 1942 substitute), Mary Ella Mae Thoren (grades 1-4, 1942), Evangeline Marie “Eva” McBain (grades 5-8), Ada Pearl Wareham (grades 9-10), Leslie Irving Spear (grades 11-12), Mary Ella Mae Thoren (grades 1-4, 1942)
1942-1943	Anna Fjola Gilason (grades 1-4), Dorothy Mable Harvey Hart (grades 5-8), Nora Edith Sankey (grades 9-11)
1943-1944	Helen Margaret Murchie Dickie (grades 9-11), Barbara M. Miller (grades 1-4), Sophie Roselene Smaha (grades 5-8), E. Wendell (grades 9-11, 1943)
1944-1945	Helen Margaret Murchie Dickie (grades 9-11), Thelma E. Lee (grades 5-8), Barbara M. Miller (grades 1-4)
1945-1946	Chester MacMillan [McMillan] Fraser (grades 9-11), Florence Margaret Frost (grades 3-5), Gwynneth Margaret Grieve (grades 1-2), Helen R. McMillan Hall (grades 6-8)
1946-1947	Chester MacMillan [McMillan] Fraser (grades 9-11), Florence Margaret Frost (grades 1-2, 1946; grades 3-5), Helen R. McMillan Hall (grades 6-8), Pearl M. Nelson (grades 6-8, 1947), Stella Paulson (grades 3-5, 1946), Muriel Alice Paynter (grades 1-2)
1947-1948	Evelyn Dorothy Denhard (grades 1-2), Chester MacMillan [McMillan] Fraser (grades 9-11, 1947; grades 11-12), Ruth Amanda Mills (grades 9-10, 1948), Kathleen Violet Harkins Sample (grades 9-10, 1947), Alma Clara Schiebe (grades 6-8), Alice Emma Schultz (grades 3-5)
1948-1949	Evelyn Dorothy Denhard (grades 1-2), V. Miller (grades 3-5, 1948), Alice Marie Rousseau Perras (grades 9-12, 1948; grades 11-12), Wilfred Birnie Reid (grades 6-8), Alice Emma Schultz (grades 3-5), Martin Stamler (grades 9-10)
1949-1950	Shirley Jean Cormack (grades 3-5, 1949), Robert Melville “Mel” Gunson (grades 9-10), Shirley Agnes Livingston (grades 1-2), Alice Emma Schultz (grades 4-5, 1950), Martin Stamler (grades 11-12), David Glen Stewart (grades 6-8), ? (grade 3, 1950)
1950-1951	Dennis David Clym (grades 5-6), Shirley Jean Cormack (grades 2-3), Margaret Peggy Kruger (grades 9-10), Shirley Agnes Livingston (grades 1-2), Elizabeth Pedersen (grades 3-4), Alice Emma Schultz (grades 7-8), Martin Stamler (grades 11-12)
1951-1952	Dennis David Clym (grades 5-6), Bohdan Hanuschak (grades 9-10), Abiah Davies Morgan (grades 11-12), Elinora Adelaide Morgan (grades 7-8), Elizabeth Pedersen (grades 3-4), Nidia Sophie Stechkewich (grades 1-2)
1952-1953	Dennis David Clym (grades 7-8), James L. Emery (grades 9 & 11), Lawrence Bernhard Friesen (grades 9 & 11), Phyllis Christine Jasper (grades 1-2), Elizabeth Pedersen (grades 3-4, 1952), Julius Skublen (grades 5-6), Ivy E. Soderstrom (grades 3-4), Calvin Robertson Somerville (grades 10 & 12)
1953-1954	Dennis David Clym (grades 7-8), Morris Paul Hykaway (grade 12), Neil McTavish (grade 9), Teresa Moloney (grades 10-11), Audrey Jacqueline Sanderson (grades 1-2), Gladys Ruth Wickdahl (grades 3-4), Olga Elizabeth Zemliak (grades 5-6)
1954-1955	Andrew Alexiuk (grades 7-8, 1955), Dennis David Clym (grades 7-8, 1954; grades 9-10, 1955), Morris Paul Hykaway (grade 12), Thomas Adam Kalischak (grades 9-10, 1954), Teresa Moloney (grade 11), Audrey Jacqueline Sanderson (grades 1-2), Gladys Ruth Wickdahl (grades 3-4), Olga Elizabeth Zemliak (grades 5-6)
1955-1956	Andrew Alexiuk (grades 7-8), Dennis David Clym (grade 9), Irene Delores Cruickshank (grades 3-4), Morris Paul Hykaway (grade 12), Teresa Moloney (grades 10-11), Edith Anne Pettitt (grades 1-2), Olga Elizabeth Zemliak (grades 5-6
1956-1957	Andrew Alexiuk (grades 7-9), Agnes Sherrard Crickard (grade 11), Irene Delores Cruickshank (grades 3-4), Frances Beryl Hanna (grades 9-10), Edith Anne Pettitt (grades 1-2), Anne Prosak (grades 5-6), Nicholas Yarish (grade 12)
1957-1958	Andrew Alexiuk (grades 7-8), Edith Anne Pettitt Alexiuk (grades 1-2), Yvonne R. Copps (grade 11), Irene Hrushowy (grade 9), Joseph “Joe” Korzeniowski (grades 5-6), Shirley McIntyre (grades 3-4), John Osborn Wilson (grade 10), Nicholas Yarish (grade 12)
1958-1959	Edith Anne Pettitt Alexiuk (grades 1-2), Yvonne R. Copps (grade 11), Shiela Yeo Cross (grades 5-6), Irene Hrushowy (grade 9), Shirley McIntyre (grades 3-4), John Osborn Wilson (grade 10), Orville E. Weselowski (grades 7-8), Nicholas Yarish (grade 12)
1959-1960	Wilda Roberta Carlson (grade 10), Mary Emily Gusdal (grades 1-2), Elizabeth Joan Kingdon (grades 3-4), Mavis Ione Johnston (grades 7-8), Margie McKenzie (grade 9), William J. “Bill” Makowski (grades 5-6), Benjamin J. T. F. “Ben” Ward (grade 12), John Osborn Wilson (grade 11)
1960-1961	Wilda Roberta Carlson (grade 10), Mary Emily Gusdal (grades 1-2), Elizabeth Joan Kingdon (grades 3-4), Mavis Ione Johnston (grades 7-8, 1960; grade 8, 1961), Gertrud Ruth Leitner (grade 9), Lorne A. Mackedenski (grade 7, 1961), William J. “Bill” Makowski (grades 5-6), Benjamin J. T. F. “Ben” Ward (grade 12), John Osborn Wilson (grade 11)
1961-1962	Wilda Roberta Carlson (grade 10), Mary Emily Gusdal (grade 1), Mildred Mary Jacob (grades 2-3), Mavis Ione Johnston (grades 7-8), Gertrud Ruth Leitner (grade 9), Lorne A. Mackedenski (grade 5), William J. “Bill” Makowski (grade 6), Margaret Jean Spurway (grades 3-4), Benjamin J. T. F. “Ben” Ward (grades 11-12), ? (grade 1)
1962-1963	Wilda Roberta Carlson (grade 10), Aime Louis Gobin (grade 9), Mary Emily Gusdal (grade 1), Mildred Mary Jacob (grade 2), Mavis Ione Johnston (grades 7-8), Lorne A. Mackedenski (grades 4-5), William J. “Bill” Makowski (grades 6-7), Margaret Jean Spurway (grade 3), Benjamin J. T. F. “Ben” Ward (grades 11-12), John Osborn Wilson (grade 11)
1963-1964	Mary Emily Gusdal (grade 1), Edith Margaret Kingdon (grade 3), Mildred Mary Jacob (grades 1-2), Lorne A. Mackedenski (grades 7-8), William J. “Bill” Makowski (grades 6-7), Margaret Jean Spurway (grade 4), Myrna Arlene Watkins (grade 5), ? (grades 9-12)
1964-1965	Mary Emily Gusdal (grades ?), Marian Humphreys (grade ?), Edith Margaret Kingdon (grade ?), Lorne A. Mackedenski (grade ?), William J. “Bill” Makowski (grade ?), Lillian Monro (grade ?), Sharon Templeton (grade ?), Walter Yanchycki (grade ?)
1965-1966	? (grades 1-8)

Teachers (Erickson School / Erickson Elementary)

Period	Teachers
1966-1967	Miss P. Anderson (grade 2), Mr. W. Copeland (grade 6), Mary Gusdal (grade 1), W. Kartianson (Kindergarten), Edith Margaret Kingdon (grade 3), Lorne A. Mackedenski (grade 8), Mrs. L. Munroe (Advanced), Miss C. Oman (grade 4), Mrs. R. Robinson (Intermediate), Mr. A. Tokaryk (grade 7), Walter Yanchycki (grade 5)
1967-2018	?

Photos & Coordinates

Erickson School (no date) by W. C. Hartley Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 105. Postcard view of Erickson School (no date) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2016-0072 Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.49725, W99.91131 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

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.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Erickson School District No. 1366 Daily Registers, GR2063, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Erickson Consolidated School District No. 2405 Daily Registers, GR2063, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Erickson Collegiate Daily Registers, GR2063, Archives of Manitoba.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

“Erickson prepared for transferred students,” Brandon Sun, 9 August 1964, page 20.

“School opens Sept. 1,” Rossburn Review, 25 August 1966, page 1.

“Erickson,” Rossburn Review, 25 August 1966, page 8.

“Erickson school opening,” Rossburn Review, 25 August 1966, page 8.

Forest to Field - Centennial History of Rural Municipality of Clanwilliam and Village of Erickson, Manitoba, Canada, RM of Clanwilliam History Book Committee.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 7 March 2021

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