Historic Sites of Manitoba: Forest Home School No. 2321 (Riverdale Colony, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

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The Forest Home School was established in January 1950 on the northeast quarter-section of 4-14-12 West of the Principal Meridian, located on the Riverdale Hutterite Colony in what is now the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone. It was designated as a Special School by the Manitoba Department of Education and, in February 1968, the district joined the Pine Creek School Division.

Principals

Period	Principal
1997	Barbara Karaz
1997-2016	?
2016-2018	Randy Chambers

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1950-1951	Matilda McColl
1951-1952	Matilda McColl
1952-1953	Matilda McColl
1953-1954	Matilda McColl
1954-1955	Matilda McColl
1955-1956	Matilda McColl
1956-1957	Maureen V. Benson (grades 1-3), Helen Viola Izzard (grades 1-9)
1957-1958	Shirley Selkirk (grades 1-3), Catherine Morrison Boughton Sly (grades 4-8, daughter of M. E. Boughton)
1958-1959	Esther Grace Patterson (grades 1-3), Catherine Morrison Boughton Sly (grades 4-9)
1959-1960	Esther Grace Patterson (grades 1-4, 1959-1960; grades 1-9, 1960), Catherine Morrison Boughton Sly (grades 4-8)
1960-1961	Esther Grace Patterson (grades 1-8)
1961-1962	Esther Grace Patterson (grades 1-8)
1962-1963	Esther Grace Patterson (grades 1-8)
1963-1964	Esther Grace Patterson (grades 1-8)
1964-1965	Terence Milton Napper, Catherine Morrison Boughton Sly (substitute, 1965)
1965-1966	Phyllis Meloney (grades 1-8)
1966-1967	Janet Lorena Vogt Teichrib, Esther Grace Patterson (substitute, 1966)
1967-1968	Karolyn Homoki, Dianne Decrosse
1968-1969	Arthur Neilson (grades 4-9), Martha Elizabeth Neilson (grades 1-3)
1969-1970	Arthur Neilson (grades 4-9), Martha Elizabeth Neilson (grades 1-3)
1970-1971	Thelma Roberta Carefoot (grades 1-3), Arthur Neilson (grades 4-8)
1971-1972	Thelma Roberta Carefoot (grades 1-3), Arthur Neilson (grades 4-8)
1972-1973	Thelma Roberta Carefoot (grades 1-3), Arthur Neilson (grades 4-8)
1973-1974	Thelma Roberta Carefoot (grades 4-8), Marlene Sandra Wetherill (grades 1-3)
1974-1975	Thelma Roberta Carefoot (grades 1-8)
1975-1976	Thelma Roberta Carefoot (grades 1-8)
1976-1977	Thelma Roberta Carefoot (grades 1-8)
1977-2016	?
2016-2017	Mary Hofer, Marilyn Hofer, Tammy Kruse (resource)
2017-2018	Mary Hofer, Marilyn Hofer, Tammy Kruse (resource)

Photos & Coordinates

Blueprints of Forest Home School and planned expansion (1964) Source: Archives of Manitoba, E 0166, GR1206, File 2321 - Forest Home School District - Permanent File. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.16477, W99.05045 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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 [Catherine Morrison Sly (c1897-1981)], Winnipeg Free Press, 27 May 1981, page 57.

“Pine Creek School Division No. 30,” Winnipeg Free Press, 18 June 1997, page 36.

Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 2321 - Forest Home, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.

Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 2321 - Forest Home School District - Permanent File, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Forest Home School District No. 2321 Daily Registers, GR3152, Archives of Manitoba.

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

Forest Home School, Pine Creek School Division.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 14 May 2021

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