The Evergreen School District was established in January 1912 and the first log schoolhouse was built 1½ miles south of Badger in what would later become the Rural Municipality of Piney. In 1925, it was replaced by a new, wood-frame school in Badger. The school became part of the Piney Municipal School District in 1936. It operated until low student enrollment forced its closure, in 1961. The building was sold and moved off the site. A teacherage, constructed during the 1950s, remains for use as a summer home.
The teachers who worked at Evergreen School through the years were Miss Graham (1913-1914), Robert G. Knight (1914-1915), Miss Allen (1915-1917), Miss E. Dixon (1917-1919), Samuel Stewart Bryan (1920), Clara Peterson (1920-1921), Eva Golden (1922-1924), Bernice Graham (1924-1926), Miss Hopkins (1926-1927), Miss Sume (1927-1928), Miss Junt (1928-1929), Phyllis Elizabeth Giles (1929-1930), May Emes (1931-1935), Lillian Anderson (1935-1936), Gertrude Barnes (1936-1938), Olga Danylchuk Beyak (1938-1940), Mary Bulstein (1940-1941), Rose Williams (1941-1942), Jerry MacDougall (1944-1945), M. Hollaway (1945-1946), Grace Mills (1946-1947), Patricia Bybush (1947-1948), Sophie Konowalchuk (1948-1949), Rae Wylie (1949-1950), Donna Milton (1950-1951), Margaret Neumann (1951-1952), Mike Andrusiak (1952-1953), Leonard Klassen (1955-1956), Walter Bugera (1956-1959), and Anthony Mallenuik (1959-1961).
Former teacherage of Evergreen School (June 2021)
Source: Samantha SilvesterSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.18963, W95.96209
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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.
Pine Valley Echoes: A History of Badger, Menisino and Piney by Piney Area History Book Committee, 1988. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.P55Pin]
We thank Doris Hovorka (Sprague and District Historical Museum), Samantha Silvester, and Nathan Kramer for providing information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 December 2022
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