Historic Sites of Manitoba: Fyrer School No. 1676 (RM of Armstrong)

The Fyrer School District was established in April 1913 and a one-room schoolhouse built and furnished during the fall of 1914 at the cost of just over $1,000, with lumber purchased from the Dominion Lumber Company and lead carpentry skills rendered by A. Nepiuk. It operated upon the southwest corner of SW31-21-3E near Silver in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong. A teacherage was also added to the school grounds some time before the districts closure. In 1966, the district was dissolved and its area became part of the Arborg Consolidated School District and later the Evergreen School Division.

Among the teachers of Fyrer School were J. Maydanyk (1915), John [Siracki] Sieracki (1915-1916, 1921-1922), Victor Steinberg (1917), A. Humeny (1917), John Frank Boitson (1917-1918), Michael D. Seneshen (1918-1919), Joseph Mcksymyk (1919-1920, 1922-1923), Katherine V. “Kate” Stadnek (1920-1921), Pauline Braschuk (1923-1924, 1925, 1933-1935), Mary [Podolack] Podolick (1924, 1927-1930), Harry Greene (1925), Theresa [Teresa] Demchuk (1925-1926), Colin Doroschuk (1926-1927), Stephen E. Radomsky (1930-1931), Natalie Lubiniecki (1931-1932), J. M. O’Keefe (1932), ? (1935-1936), Mary Palmer (1936-1937), Michael Richard Firman (1937-1941), Peter Budzinsky (1941-1948), Eugene V. Doroschuk (1948-1949). Shirley Geraldine Solar (1949-1950), Stanley Sigmund Nowicki? (1950-1951), Anthony Joseph Besarabowicz (1951-1956), Agatha Bock (1956-1958), Shirley Joan Wishnoski (1958-1959), Edward Lawrence Melnyk (1959-1960), and ? (1960-1966).

Fyrer School (no date) by H. D. Cumming Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 15. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.84616, W97.17967 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Cummin’s Rural Directory Map for Manitoba published by the Cummins Map Company, 404 Chambers of Commerce, Winnipeg, 1923. [Copies held by Edward M. Ledohowski and Gordon Goldsborough]

Arborg topographic map, 62I/14, Edition 1, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].

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, Fyrer School District No. 1676 - Daily Registers, GR6124, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Fyrer School District No. 1676 - Minute Book, GR6189, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Fyrer School District No. 1676 - Annual Financial Reports, GR6263, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Fyrer School District No. 1676 - Cash Book [and District Census Returns], GR6226, Archives of Manitoba.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 23 November 2019

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