The Glenmona School District was established formally in April 1909 and, as of 1910, a one-room schoolhouse operated at SE30-21-10W in what is now the Rural Municipality of Alonsa. In 1936, it became part of the Alonsa School District and, in 1959, the Turtle River School Division. The school closed in 1966. At the time of a 2021 site visit, a modern residence stood at former school site.
Among the teachers of Glenmona School were Elizabeth Wellwood (1910-1914, 1918), Clara Smith (1916), Mary Love (1917), Edith Sands (1918), Alice Smith (1919), Linda Sands (1919), William Cox (1919), Edith Sands (1919), John Mowat (1920), Ida Armit (1920), Douglas Fyles (1921-1922), William Olson (1922-1923), Arleen Donald (1923-1926), Wilhelmina Martin (1926), Jean Reid (1927), Lillian Betsworth (1927-1928), Eugenia Tkachyk (1928-1930), Jenny Gemmill (1930-1933), Mabel Fletcher (1933-1937), Leona Williams (1937-1938), Esther Patricia Pettapiece (1938-1940), Helen F. Brown (1940), Louise Cotton (1940-1941), Helen Moran (1941-1942), Edith Sands (1942-1943), Bill Christie (1943-1944), Wilda Watson (1944-1945), Mrs. C. M. Attenborrow (1946-1948), Beatrice M. Shotbolt (1948-1949), Betty Ann Cason (1949-1950), Beatrice Robb (1950-1951), Leo P. Barkman (1951-1952), Walter Nakoneshny (1952-1953), Norma Willd (1953-1954), John Suprowich (1954-1955), Walter Shura (1955-1956), Ruth Jelfs (1957-1958), and Leona E. Thwaites (1958-1965).
Glenmona School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 127.
The former Glenmona School site (August 2021)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Location (lat/long): N50.81520, W98.83330
denoted by symbol on the map above
Alonsa West topographic map, 62J/15 West, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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.
Many Trails to Manitou - Wapah by Village History Committee, Alonsa, 1993, pages 280-281.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 August 2021
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