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The Gypsumville School District was established in March 1912 and a school operated in Gypsumville, in what later became the Rural Municipality of Grahamdale. In August 1916, a $1,500 debenture was approved by district ratepayers to fund a schoolhouse.
It was desigated a Remote School District in March 1959 and, in the summer of 1979, became Gypsumville School District No. 2461.
Period
Principal
1950-1951
S. Sigurdson
1951-1952
Marion Adelaide Mackrell
1952-1953
George Underwood
1953-1954
J. C. Campeau
1954-1955
Steve Yaseyko
1955-1956
A. H. Sveistrup
1956-1958
Kenneth Hulldason
1958-1959
J. Kerbrat
1959-1960
William Sul
1960-1963
Abram Enns
1963-1964
William Badiuk
1964-1967
G. D. McCurdy
1967-1969
H. C. Smith
1969-1970
K. Gunn-Walbery
1970-1971
D. Ahmad
1971-1972
R. D. Lahti
1972-1973
Thomas Trottier
?-?
Garry Henry Doyle (1934-2014)
Among the teachers of Gypsumville School was Edgar Thomas Hegan Mackrell (c1916).
The original Gypsumville School (no date) by J. H. Plewes
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 3.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.77076, W98.63505
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Gypsumville School No. 1312 / Portage Bay School No. 1312 (RM of Grahamdale)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Corporate Security registered documents (ATG 0089), #55 School District of Gypsumville, GR12576, 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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 September 2023
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