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The Hamiota School District was formally established in April 1892 and a school building was erected that year on the southeast corner of the farm of James Stewart in the Rural Municipality of Hamiota. In 1899, it was replaced by a two-classroom brick structure with a basement in Hamiota. The original school building was moved into the village and used as a private residence, later occupied by Mayor E. P. Venables. In 1908, two more classrooms were added to its southeast side, on a design by Winnipeg architect S. Frank Peters. The school was one of the first in Manitoba to participate in the consolidation movement when, in June 1912, it joined to Kerr School No. 220 and Chumah School No. 401 to form Hamiota Consolidated School No. 692. A second addition to the school, on the north side, was made in 1914. By the 1950s, it had four classrooms on each of two storeys. It was demolished in 1957 and replaced by the present structure nearby.
Period
Principal
1902-1907
Stephen Windsor
1907-1913
Washburn Van Dusen (1869-?)
1913-1914
Thomas Addison Neelin (1882-1970)
1914-1915
Sarah Ann Sproat (1885-1976)
1915-1919
Charles T. Cresswell (1872-1961)
1919-1921
William Edgar Rogers (1889-1979)
1921-1925
Johann Gestur Johannsson (1886-1978)
1925-1927
Harold Ludlow Albright (1888-1955)
1927-1950
George Henry Ruttan (1880-1960)
1950-1951
Sidney George Denham (1909-1989)
1951-1954
Joseph William Butcher (1906-1997)
1954-1956
John Chalaturnyk (1915-2001)
1956-1963
Frank Lorne McKinnon (1934-2015)
1963-1973
A. William Robertson
Period
Principal
1988-?
Allan Robertson
Period
Vice-Principal
1988-?
Dick Prawdzik
Carol Smith
School Year
Teachers
1892-1893
?-?
Dr. J. H. Fraser
?-1906
?
1906-1907
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Miss Ada Venables
1907-1908
Miss F. M. Cochrane, ?
1908-1909
Miss F. M. Cochrane, ?
1909-1910
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1910-1911
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1911-1912
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1912-1913
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1913-1914
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1914-1915
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1915-1916
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1916-1917
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1917-1918
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1918-1919
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Miss G. Houck, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1919-1920
Miss F. M. Cochrane, Elsie Graham, Miss Gladys Houck, J. McFarland, L. Ripley, Sarah Ann Sproat
1920-1921
Lillian Helen Arnold, G. Atkens, E. Rita Hawthorne, E. Pearl Latimer, Flossie R. Lind, Margaret McClumb, Mary A. McConnell, Vera P. McKenzie
1921-1922
M. E. Andrew, Lillian Helen Arnold, Laura Hainstock, Ada Pauline Herkes, Mabel Muldoon, Jessie Rogers, Lois Spooner
1922-1923
Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1923-1924
Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1924-1925
Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1925-1926
Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1926-1927
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1927-1928
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1928-1929
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1929-1930
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1930-1931
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1931-1932
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1932-1933
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1933-1934
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1934-1935
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1935-1936
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1936-1937
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1937-1938
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1938-1939
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1939-1940
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1940-1941
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1941-1942
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1942-1943
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1943-1944
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1944-1945
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1945-1946
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1946-1947
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1947-1948
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1948-1949
Douglas Bridge, Miss J. B. Cummings, Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss N. Fraser, Miss M. E. Jones, Miss A. Lavery, Miss O. Smith
1949-1950
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1950-1951
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1951-1952
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1952-1953
Mrs. Gladys Fraser (grades 3 and 4), Mrs. A. Giesbrecht (collegiate), Mrs. J. Johnston (collegiate), Miss V. Jones (grades 2 and 3), Miss J. Leifer (grade 1), Miss E. Morton (grades 5 and 6), Miss V. Motherall (grades 7 and 8)
1953-1954
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1954-1955
Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1955-1956
?
1956-1957
?
1957-1958
?
1958-1959
?
1959-1960
?
1960-1961
?
1961-1962
Mrs. Louise Baillie, Miss Terry Fulton, Mrs. Agnes Pateman, Mrs. Doris Rampling, Mr. P. I. Robinson
Among the other teachers of Hamiota School were Lillian Lawson, Bert Reid, L. Norris, A. C. Courtney, J. E. Simmon, H. A. Garland, K. M. Lewis, E. Cowan, K. Cameron, L. Ripley, J. N. McFarland, B. Coates, C. Q. Atkins, E. Graham, E. P. Latimer, V. P. McKenzie, R. Hawthorne, F. A. Lind, M. A. McConnell, M. McClumb, M. E. Andrew, M. Muldoon, L. Arnold, L. Hainstock, J. A. Rogers, M. Mair, A. L. Loundry, A. Mellar, F. Wilson, E. Hawthorne, Miss M. E. Usher, L. Nicol, M. E. Geddes, E. M. Burkholder, Beatrice Alice Hume, Rose Jane Vasey (wife of Frederick James Westcott), J. H. Woodhill, O. M. Horn, E. Steele, L. Hodges, K. Condell, T. Moloney, E. J. Mollerd, F. Turner, N. M. Molson, Weston Sweet, L. Hodges, E. E. Nelson, J. M. Howlett, I. Wilkinson, R. J. Fraser, L. A. Glinz, L. King, L. McDonald, O. M. Eby, J. M. Brown, K. Walley, D. B. Fraser, M. Lund, J. McCrindle, Russel H. Hayter, W. C. Campbell, R. Bundy, G. Pollard, A. Small, M. McCrindle, V. Howe, P. Haedisty, V. Murray, E. Brook, A. Dunn, V. Jeffrey, I. Birney, O. Smith, F. Francis, L. Kirk, N. Fraser, J. Cummings, L. Ellerington, D. Bridge, E. Jones, R. E. Rathwell, W. Bamford, E. J. Black, R. Stacey, A. C. Thompson, A. E. Lawson, Leonard H. Goldsborough, M. C. Brown, V. Jones, C. E. Morton, H. W. Savage, J. L. Hamilton, J. E. Leifer, V. A. Motherall, L. Giesbrecht, S. I. Coulter, M. Hazelwood, A. K. Butcher, H. E. Irwin, G. Scott, Miss Mary Babuik, and Harriet Henrietta “Etta” Crewson.
The four-classroom Hamiota School before its expansion (circa 1912)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2017-0012
The eight-classroom Hamiota School (no date) by G. W. Bartlett
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 109.
Postcard view of the eight-classroom Hamiota School (no date)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2024-0057
Hamiota School (May 2021)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.18246, W100.59877
denoted by symbol on the map above
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
“Wanted, contracts,” Manitoba Free Press, 10 June 1908, page 2.
“Hamiota, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 1916, Archives of Manitoba.
“Teachers at the convention,” Brandon Sun, 15 October 1920, page 6.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
The History of Hamiota by the Hamiota Women’s Institute, circa 1949.
A History of Hamiota Village and Municipalty by Hamiota Women’s Institute, 1953.
“Council reports,” Birtle Eyewitness, 3 October 1961, page 10.
“Current comments,” Hamiota Echo, 18 April 1962, page 2.
“Current comments,” Hamiota Echo, 29 June 1966, page 2.
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.
Obituary [Rose Jane Westcott], Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 1985, page 31.
“Trustees conduct regular meeting,” Hamiota Echo, 13 September 1988, page 7.
We thank Len Goldsborough, Nathan Kramer, and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 October 2023
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