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When settlers began arriving in what is now the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne in the early 1890s, schools were built to accommodate their children. As many as 27 schools existed at one time, but some closed as farms on marginal land were abandoned. The remaining ones were eventually consolidated into Glenella Municipal School No. 1006 in the village of Glenella. In 1966, the Glenella school district became part of the Turtle River School Division No. 32. A monument in Glenella, in the present-day Rural Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne, commemorates the students and teachers who passed through local schools between 1892 and 1990. The bell on its top was donated by Christ the King Roman Catholic Church at Glenella.
Period
Principal
1915-1916
William Skidmore (c1885-?)
1916-1917
H. L. French
1917-1918
William R. Layer
1918-1922
?
1922-1926
P. A. Murphy
1926-1927
B. F. McLeod
1927-1928
William Hasselfield
1928-1930
Charles Lyon Maris (1902-1977)
1930-1934
Victor Wellington Jenkins (1884-1950)
1934-1938
?
1938-1941
Mac Lane Turner (1915-1956)
1941-1947
Cecil Victor Gunn (1894-1981)
1947-1948
N. Kelly
1948-1953
Douglas Alexander Thomson (c1919-1965)
1953-1954
Frank Veregin (1931-2001)
1954-1955
George W. Fellowes
1955-1958
Joseph R. “Joe” Minarik (1930-1995)
1958-1959
William Sul
1959-1960
J. Shewchuk
1960-1961
1961-1963
N. Constantinesco
1963-1964
R. K. Bell
1964-1965
D. M. Leswick
1965-1968
A. M. Marciski
1968-1983
Harvey Lloyd Walker (1942-2010)
1983-1984
?
1984-1985
Marjorie Marciski
Among the early teachers of Glenella School was Oscar Andrew Wurster (c1912).
School Year
Teachers
1978-1979
Marjorie Marciski, Joan McDonald, Sharon Sawchuk, Diane Sharpe, Irene Sulik
1979-1980
?
1980-1981
Betty Aitken, Ruth Emisch, Marjorie Marciski, Joan McDonald, Sharon Sawchuk, Irene Sulik
1981-1982
?
1982-1983
Betty Aitken, Carol Bulas, Marjorie Marciski, Joan McDonald, Sharon Sawchuk, Irene Sulik
1983-1984
?
1984-1985
Betty Aitken, Carol Bulas, Joan McDonald, Sharon Sawchuk, Irene Sulik, Harvey L. Walker
“Junior room” of Glenella Municipal School No. 1006, the second school at the site, built in 1915 (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 39.
The second Glenella School, now a seniors’ centre (May 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
“Senior room” of Glenella Municipal School No. 1006, the third school at the site,
built in 1921 (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 39.
The third Glenella School building (circa 1990)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 443.
The third Glenella School, built in 1921, now used for storage at N50.55371, W99.18943 (August 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Glenella Schools commemorative monument (May 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.55740, W99.19266
denoted by symbol on the map above
School
Period of Operation
Location(s)
1916-1967
SW21-20-13W
1909-1957
SE9-20-12W
1914-1955
SW34-19-13W
1903-1955
NE15-18-14W
1917-1967
NW22-15-12W
Davey School
1915-1926
NW25-19-11W
Elkwood School
1912-1959
NE24-20-11W
1917-1962
NE34-18-11W
Ferguson School
1916-1936
SE19-19-11W
1899-1917
SW34-18-12W
1892-1967
SE30-18-14W &
NE19-18-14WGlenella Municipal School
1899-present
4 sites
1900-1961
SE2-19-13W &
SE10-19-13W1933-1966
SE15-18-11W
Grass River Colony School
1968-present
SE19-18-12W
1902-1966
NE6-18-11W
1917-1959
SE20-20-12W
1917-1965
NW34-18-12W
1914-1935
SE30-20-11W
1904-1966
NW19-18-12W
1902-1930
SE20-19-12W
1893-1967
SW2-18-12W
1893-1967
NE30-17-13W &
NE19-17-13W1893-1967
NW32-17-14W
1919-1936
21-20-11W
Rocklands School
1914-1941
SE6-20-11W
1896-1968
SE13-18-13W &
NW26-17-13W
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.
“Add one position in Turtle R.,” Dauphin Herald, 6 September 1978, page 2.
“Teachers begin year in Turtle River S.D.,” Dauphin Herald, 10 September 1980, page 24.
“Teachers ready in Turtle River,” Dauphin Herald, 1 September 1982, page 18.
“Teachers in Turtle River schools,” Dauphin Herald, 9 October 1984, page 30.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Allan Drysdale.
Page revised: 6 April 2024
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