The Hazel Grove School District was established formally in January 1894 although a petition for its creation had suggested the name of Orrs School District. Approved as Hazel Grove, a schoolhouse was built at this site in 1894 in what is now the Municipality of North Cypress-Langford, and a porch was added in 1909. In June 1916, the district was consolidated into the Wellwood Consolidated School and this school ceased operation. In 1949, the building was sold and moved away.
Among the teachers at Hazel Grove School were Libbie A. Macdonald (Spring 1894), Maud Mawhinney? (Fall 1894), R. D. Ferguson (Spring 1895 - pt Fall 1896), Lewis? Hicks (pt Fall 1896), W. S. Francis (Spring 1897 - Fall 1898), Nellie Connor (Spring 1899 - Spring 1900), Mabel Hawkens (Fall 1900), Mabel Haney (pt Spring 1901, pt Fall 1901), M. C. Andrew (pt Spring 1901), E. McGill (pt Fall 1901), records not available (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Lottie J. Chapman (Spring-Fall 1905), Esther J. Oxenham (Spring 1906 - Spring 1908), Grace McMaster (Fall 1908 - Fall 1910), Elizabeth Dougall (Spring-Fall 1911), Myrtle Cornish (Spring 1912 - Fall 1914), Hazel Arretta Vandecar (Spring 1915), and Mattie C. Halliday (Fall 1915 - Spring 1916).
Hazel Grove School commemorative monument (May 2013)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.01956, W99.29375
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Hazel Grove School District No. 798, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Allan Drysdale, Gordon Goldsborough, and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 21 December 2023
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