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The original Grosse Isle School District was established in August 1891 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW4-13-1E. In May 1919, it became part of the Grosse Isle Consolidated School District based in Grosse Isle, in the Rural Municipality of Rosser, combining the original Grosse Isle District No. 698 with that of Kensington School No. 787. The new consolidated district was re-designated Grosse Isle School No. 1975, and district ratepayers approved a new $18,000 school site, structure, and furnishings in August 1919. The new schoolhouse, built on designs of Winnipeg architect J. H. G. Russell, was officially opened on 22 October 1920, with noted guests in attendance including Professor Perry from the University of Manitoba, Rev. Tomkins of St. John’s Cathedral, Canon Alexander Matheson of St. John’s College, and MLA Arthur John Lobb.
Period
Principal
1920-1921
Kathleen Mary Matheson (1864-1947)
1921-1922
E. Alice Robinson (?-?)
1922-1924
Clara M. Allingham
1924-1927
Miss Margaret E. Wilson
1927-1928
Elsie K. Gardner
1928-1929
John Blain Stewart (1882-?)
1929-1932
Miss S. Eggertson
1932-1933
Florence Irene Robinson Hayter (1901-1948)
1933-1934
Margaret Scott Fraser
1934-1936
Marguerite Andres Oastler
1936-1937
Louise McPhedran
1937-1939
Florence Anne Simpson
1939-1940
John Archibald “Archie” Carmichael (1916-2001)
1940-1941
Ruth Annie Fairlie Henderson (1904-1992)
1941-1943
George Lecoq (1905-2000)
1943-1944
Wilma Brusch
1944-1946
Wilham Humkewich
1946-1948
Alexander Russell “Alex” Paterson (1882-1958)
1948-1948
Evelyn Marie Lord
1949-1949
Marjorie Ann Dewar (1916-2011)
1949-1950
Caroline Cumming (1885-1979)
1950-1951
Miss Lina Tillie Kuzyk
1951-1961
William John “Bill” Dutka (?-2008)
1961-1968
?
1968-1981
William M. A. Campbell
1981-1982
Marie Isabel Cosens (acting)
School Year
Teachers
1920-1921
Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-5), Kathleen Mary Matheson (grades 6-10)
1921-1922
Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-3), Rita L. McBratney (grades 4-7), E. Alice Robinson (grades 9-11)
1922-1923
Clara M. Allingham (grades 8-11), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-3), Rita L. McBratney (grades 4-7)
1923-1924
Clara M. Allingham (grades 8-11), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-3), Rita L. McBratney (grades 4-7)
1924-1925
Constance E. Chambers (grades 4-6), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-3), Margaret E. Wilson (grades 7-11)
1925-1926
Constance E. Chambers (grades 5-8), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4), Margaret E. Wilson (grades 9-11)
1926-1927
Miss S. Eggertson (grades 5-8), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4), Margaret E. Wilson (grades 9-11)
1927-1928
Lena M. Copeland (grades 5-8), Elsie K. Gardener (grades 9-11), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4)
1928-1929
Lena M. Copeland (grades 5-8), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4), John Blain Stewart (grades 9-11)
1929-1930
Miss S. Eggertson (grades 9-11), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4), Gladys M. Whitmore (grades 5-8)
1930-1931
Miss S. Eggertson (grades 9-11), Laura Lovatt (grades 5-8), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4)
1931-1932
Miss S. Eggertson (grades 9-11), Laura Lovatt (grades 5-8), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4)
1932-1933
Laura Lovatt (grades 5-8), Katherine Mary Madill (grades 1-4), Florence Irene Robinson (grades 9-11)
1933-1934
Margaret Scott Fraser (grades 7-11), Edith Winnifred Tait (grades 1-6)
1934-1935
Marguerite Andrews Oastler (grades 7-11), Edith Winnifred Tait (grades 1-6)
1935-1936
Marguerite Andrews Oastler (grades 7-11), Edith Winnifred Tait (grades 1-6)
1936-1937
Louise McPhedran (grades 7-11), Edith Winnifred Tait (grades 1-6)
1937-1938
Florence Anne Simpson (grades 7-12), Edith Winnifred Tait (grades 1-6)
1938-1939
Kathleen Ellen Avery (grades 1-6), Florence Anne Simpson (grades 7-12)
1939-1940
Frances Eliza Campbell (grades 1-6), John Archibald “Archie” Carmichael (grades 7-12)
1940-1941
Frances Eliza Campbell (grades 1-6), Ruth Annie Fairlie Henderson (grades 7-12)
1941-1942
George Lecog (grades 7-11), Margaret Helen Martin (grades 1-6, 1941), Christine Mary Tyler (grades 1-6, 1942)
1942-1943
George Lecog (grades 7-11), Christine Mary Tyler (grades 1-6)
1943-1944
Wilma Brusch (grades 7-11), Christine Mary Tyler (grades 1-6)
1944-1945
Wilham Humkewich (grades 7-11), Bernadette Perron (grades 1-6)
1945-1946
Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-6), Wilham Humkewich (grades 7-11)
1946-1947
Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-6), Alexander Russell “Alex” Paterson (grades 7-11)
1947-1948
Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-4), Alexander Russell “Alex” Paterson (grades 9-11), Hazel Lillian Marie Taylor (grades 5-8)
1948-1949
Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-4), Marjorie Ann Dewar (grades 9-11, 1949), Lillian Evelyn Reid (grades 5-8), Evelyn Marie Lord (grades 9-11, 1948)
1949-1950
Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-4), Isabel Anne Cheyne (grades 5-8), Caroline Cumming (grades 9-11), C. Hall (grades 9-11, substitute), K. W. J. Pomeroy (grades 9-11, substitute), E. Mankor? (grades 9-11, substitute)
1950-1951
Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-4), Isabel Anne Cheyne (grades 5-8), Lina Tillie Kuzyk (grades 9-11)
1951-1952
Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-4), Isabel Anne Cheyne (grades 5-8), William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11)
1952-1953
Hazel Blanche Aldcroft (grades 5-8, 1952) Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-4), William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Jean Veronica King (grades 5-8, 1952), Beatrice May Siska (grades 5-8, 1953)
1953-1954
Lillian Euphemia Campbell (grades 1-4), William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Margaret Jane Viola Gemmill (grades 5-8)
1954-1955
William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Donna Vivian Hogg (grades 1-4), Roy Raymond Sontag (grades 5-8)
1955-1956
William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Donna Vivian Hogg (grades 1-4), Roy Raymond Sontag (grades 5-8)
1956-1957
William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Roy Raymond Sontag (grades 5-8), Gwendolyn Esther “Gwen” Thomas (grades 1-4)
1957-1958
William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Joyce Arlene Sandmoen (grades 1-4), Roy Raymond Sontag (grades 5-8)
1958-1959
William John “Bill” Dutka (senior grade/grades), Ella L. J. McLaren (grades 1-4), Eleanor Jean Vanwyck (grades 5-8)
1959-1960
William John “Bill” Dutka (senior grade/grades), Ella L. J. McLaren (grades 1-4), Eleanor Jean Vanwyck Bond (grades 5-8)
1960-1961
William John “Bill” Dutka (grade 11), Dorothy Laser (grades 1-4), Rhonda Eileen Cruickshank (grades 9-10), ? (grades 5-8)
1961-1962
Dorothy Ruth Riddell (grades 1-4), ? (other grades)
1962-1963
Dorothy Ruth Riddell (grades 1-4), ? (other grades)
1963-1964
Dorothy Ruth Riddell (grades 1-4), Harry Frank Tiessen (grades 5-8), ? (other grades)
1964-1965
Dorothy Jean Palmer (grades 7-8), Dorothy Ruth Riddell (grades 1-3), Beatrice May Siska (grades 4-6)
1965-1966
Ned Michael Derkach (grades 7-8), Dorothy Ruth Riddell Gross (grades 1-3), Beatrice May Siska (grades 4-6)
1966-1967
Ned Michael Derkach (grades 7-8), Carole Rumak (grades 4-6), Meryl Yvonne Sheldon (grades 1-3)
1967-1968
Brenda Jean Buchanan (grades 1-3), Ned Michael Derkach (grades 7-8), Merle Irene McKinnon (grades 4-6)
1968-1969
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Carole Dorothy Grant (grade 5), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 6), Harold Reginald Syrett (grade 7), ? (grades 1-4)
1969-1970
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Joan Dianne Carlson (grade 5), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 6), Harold Reginald Syrett (grade 7)
1970-1971
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Barbara Jean Cannons (grade 5), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 6), Nancy Marie Roshon (grade 7)
1971-1972
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 7), Marion Irene Cramer (grade 5), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 6)
1972-1973
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 7), Janet Victoria McComb (grade 5), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 6)
1973-1974
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 7), Janet Victoria McComb (grade 5), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 6)
1974-1975
William M. A. Campbell (grades 7-8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 6), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 5)
1975-1976
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 7), Janet Victoria McComb (grade 6), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 5)
1976-1977
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 7), Audrey Helen Watson (grade 6), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 5)
1977-1978
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 7), Audrey Helen Watson (grade 6), Edna Shirley Noren (grade 5)
1978-1979
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 7), Audrey Helen Watson (grade 6), Edna Shirley Noren (grades 4-5)
1979-1980
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 7), Audrey Helen Watson (grades 5-6)
1980-1981
William M. A. Campbell (grade 8), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 6-7), Audrey Helen Watson (grade 5)
1981-1982
William M. A. Campbell (grades 7-8, 1981), Marie Isabel Cosens (grade 6), Donna Amy Friesen (grade 5), Nancy Lynn Lillebo (grades ?), E. Masters (grades 7-8, 1982), Audrey Helen Watson (grades 7-8, 1981)
Among the other teachers at Grosse Isle School were Muriel E. Johnston (1913), John M. Lewis (1913), Ethel J. Angst (1914-1915), Pauline C. Whitmore (1915-1916), M. McDonald (1916), Margaret L. Frayne (1916-1919), Themla Coleman (1919), and Pauline Johnson (1919-1920).
The newly constructed Grosse Isle Consolidated School (1921)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, George Harris Fonds, Acc. 1979-141, P7447, Album 2, Page 28.
Grosse Isle School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 70.
Grosse Isle School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 70.
Grosse Isle School commemorative monument (August 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Grosse Isle School commemorative monument (May 2023)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Entrance to Grosse Isle School (May 2023)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.06315, W97.44509
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Voting in Rosser,” Manitoba Free Press, 18 July 1919, page 13.
“Notice - Rural Municipality of Rosser,” Manitoba Free Press, 26 July 1919, page 17.
“Tenders [Grosse Isle School],” Winnipeg Tribune, 25 August 1919, page 13.
“Tenders for school vans,” Manitoba Free Press, 12 May 1920, page 18.
“Formal opening of Grosse Isle Consolidated School,” Manitoba Free Press, 28 October 1920, page 8.
Manitoba School Records Collection, GR0474, Grosse Isle School District No. 689 Daily Registers, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, GR0474, Grosse Isle School District No. 1975 Daily Registers, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (Schedule: E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
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.
We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 October 2023
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