Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hazelridge School No. 1583 (Hazelridge, RM of Springfield)

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The Hazelridge School District was organized formally in September 1911. By mid-1912, it had become Hazelridge Consolidated School by consolidation with Klondyke School No. 1139. A two-classroom school building was constructed at Hazelridge in the Municipality of Springfield. By 1935 or 1936, the capacity of the school had been exceeded so a separate high school building was built on the same property. In 1948, the main school building underwent a significant renovation; its exterior was covered with insul-bric and, on the inside, an oil-burning furnace and a washroom with chemical toilets were added. Continued overcrowding in the 1950s necessitated the use of the nearby Orange Hall as a classroom for students in grades 9 and 10.

By 1961, the former high school building was being used for storage. It was sold to a local person and converted into a workshop. By 2020, the building had deteriorated to such an extent that it was demolished. The foundation was covered over so nothing remained visible at the time of a 2024 site visit.

In 1965, Hazelridge School became part of the Transcona-Springfield School Division. In August 1965, construction a new four-classroom school building began and students from the old two-room schoolhouse moved into it on 17 January 1966. The old building was sold to the Ridgeland Hutterite Colony and later demolished. The new school was opened officially on 29 April 1966 at a ceremony attended by School Board Chair Arthur C. Lazier, Rev. A. Friebert, historian Mrs. James Crossman, Department of Education Deputy Minister Robert William “Bob” Lightly, and guest speaker Rhoda May Gibbs Small, along with school trustees J. M. Cook, T. Lefco, S. Hnatishin, H. Lamont, and J. Solar.

At present (2024), Hazelridge School hosts classes from Kindergarten to grade 5.

Principals

Period	Principal
1914	Henry Herbert McKeen (1861-1947)
1914-1916	Archibald Macdonald Headlam (1872-1943)
1916	Evelyn R. Perkins (acting)
1916-1917	Archibald Macdonald Headlam (1872-1943)
1917-1920	Anastasia Brissette McKinnon (1883-1962)
1920-1921	Florence Mattatall
1921-1922	Mary Ethel Simms (c1895-1947)
1923-1926	Dorothy Marguerite Jefferson (1898-1986)
1926-1930	Mary Marguerite Rodger “Marge” Andrews (1901-1955)
1930-1931	Dorothy Ellen Swinburne Levine (c1905-1971)
1931-1937	Rhoda May Gibbs Small (1908-2003)
1937-1939	Frederick Adam Hodgkinson (1912-2004)
1939-1943	Rhoda May Gibbs Small (1908-2003)
1943-1945	Michalina “Minnie” Karasiewich [Karasewich] Lanoway (1914-2006)
1945-1946	Monica Youle Connors Mortemore (1917-1990)
1946	Elizabeth Johanonna Penner
1946-1950	William John “Bill” Dutka (?-2008)
1950-1952	Stanley “Stan” Gertz
1952-1954	Ralph Ernest Mayes (1891-1969)
1954-1955	Nastia Kolodzinski “Nettie” Stadnyk (?-2017)
1955-1956	Fred Daciw
1956-1957	John Alexander Campbell
1959-1963	Mildred Cecile Burek
1963-1966	Theodore Orest “Ted” Jaremy (1943-1988)
1966-1970	Norman Joseph “Joe” Golebioski
1970-1971	Wilbert Thompson Heather
1971-1975	Norman Joseph “Joe” Golebioski
1975-1979	Clare Atkins
1979-1981	Paul Moreau
1981-?	John Maslechko
?-1992	?
1992-?	Gwen McFadyen

Principals (Hazelridge High School)

Period	Principal
1959-1960	Frank John Gustaw
1960-1961	Ernest Pankratz
1961 onwards	See Springfield Collegiate

Teachers

Among the early teachers at Hazelridge School were D. Alfred Patterson (1912-1913) and J. Turner (1913).

Period	Principal
1913-1914	Henry Herbert McKeen (grades 3-10, 1914), Jessie Nellie Turner (grades 1-2, 1914), ? (1913)
1914-1915	Nellie Garrioch (grades 1-3), Archibald Macdonald Headlam (grades 4-10)
1915-1916	Archibald Macdonald Headlam (grades 5-9), Miss Nichols (grades 1-4, 1916 substitute), Evelyn R. Perkins (grades 1-4; grades 5-9, 1916 substitute)
1916-1917	Jessie Clark (grades 1-3), Archibald Macdonald Headlam (grades 4-10)
1917-1918	Anastasia Brissette (grades 4-10), Fern A. Jackson (grades 1-3), Margaret Munroe (grades 1-3, 1918)
1918-1919	Anastasia Brissette (grades 4-10), Margaret Munroe (grades 1-3)
1919-1920	Anastasia Brissette (grades 4-9), Margaret Munroe (grades 1-4, 1919), Nora B. Sinclair (grades 1-4, 1920)
1920-1921	Florence Mattatall (grades 4-10), M. I. Millidge (grades 1-4)
1921-1922	Annie Greene (grades 1-4), Mary Ethel Simms (grades 5-9)
1922-1923	Annie Greene (grades 1-4), Dorothy Marguerite Jefferson (grades 5-9, 1923), Mary Ethel Simms (grades 5-9, 1922)
1923-1924	Annie Greene (grades 1-4), Dorothy Marguerite Jefferson (grades 4-10)
1924-1925	Dorothy Marguerite Jefferson (grades 7-10), ? (grades 1-6)
1925-1926	Dorothy Marguerite Jefferson (grades 7-10), V. R. Power (grades 4-7), ? (grades 1-3)
1926-1927	Mary Marguerite “Marge” Rodger (grades 9-11), ? (grades 1-8)
1927-1928	Jessie McMichael Clark (grades 1-3), Sigridur Eggertson (grades 4-8), Mary Marguerite “Marge” Rodger (grades 9-11)
1928-1929	Mary Marguerite Rodger “Marge” Andrews (grades 9-11), Sigridur Eggertson (grades 4-8), Eva Margaret MacKay (grades 1-3)
1929-1930	Mary Marguerite Rodger “Marge” Andrews (grades 9-11), Nellie May Flemming (grades 4-8), Eva Margaret MacKay (grades 1-3)
1930-1931	Lily Annie Gillespie (grades 4-8), Reta Evelyn McRuer (grades 1-4), Dorothy Ellen Swinburne (grades 9-11)
1931-1932	Nellie May Flemming (grades 5-8), Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11), Florence Jean Lamb Millidge (grades 1-4)
1932-1933	Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11), Marion Wallace Hamilton (grades 1-4), Florence Jean Lamb Millidge (grades 5-8)
1933-1934	Elizabeth Jane Dougall (grades 1-4), Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11), Florence Jean Lamb Millidge (grades 5-8)
1934-1935	Dorothy Anne Carter (grades 1-4), Margaret Hazel Galbraith (grades 5-8), Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11)
1935-1936	Jean Campbell (grades 5-8), Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11), Gladys Julia Smith (grades 1-4)
1936-1937	Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11), Margaret Helen Jasper (grades 1-4), ? (grades 5-8)
1937-1938	Frederick Adam Hodgkinson (grades 9-11), Margaret Helen Jasper (grades 1-4), Mary Nazeravich (grades 5-8)
1938-1939	Frederick Adam Hodgkinson (grades 9-11), Valerie Karpetz (grades 5-8), Mary Nazeravich (grades 1-4)
1939-1940	Olive Cornell Christopherson (grades 5-8), Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11), Mary Nazeravich (grades 1-4)
1940-1941	Olive Cornell Christopherson (grades 5-8), Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11), Mary Nazeravich (grades 1-4)
1941-1942	Margaret Georgina Alexander (grades 5-8), Edith Isabel Burnett (grades 1-4), Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11)
1942-1943	Margaret Georgina Alexander (grades 5-8), Annie Davidowski (grades 1-4), Violet T. Haier (grades 5-8, 1943), Rhoda May Gibbs (grades 9-11)
1943-1944	Edith Ruth Hodgkinson (grades 1-4), Michalina “Minnie” Karasiewich [Karasewich] (grades 9-11), Eleanor Summerton (grades 5-8)
1944-1945	Michalina “Minnie” Karasiewich [Karasewich] (grades 9-11), Irene Rosemary Feher (grades 5-8), ? (grades 1-4)
1945-1946	Catherine Fairlie Dowie (grades 1-4), Monica Youle Connors Mortemore (grades 9-11), Elizabeth Johanonna Penner (grades 9-11, 1946), Katherine Unruh (grades 5-8)
1946-1947	Catherine Fairlie Dowie (grades 1-4), William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Elva Merle Westhook (grades 5-8)
1947-1948	William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Mary Rose Nazeravich (grades 1-4), Elva Merle Westhook (grades 5-8)
1948-1949	William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Mary Rose Nazeravich (grades 1-4), Elva Merle Westhook (grades 5-8)
1949-1950	William John “Bill” Dutka (grades 9-11), Nellie Claudia Kutcy (grades 1-4), Helen Rose Osiowy (grades 5-8)
1950-1951	Evelyn Dorothy Denhard (grades 1-4), William Alexander Ellison (grades 5-8, 1951), Stanley “Stan” Gertz (grades 9-11), Elizabeth A. McShane (grades 5-8, 1950)
1951-1952	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Evelyn Dorothy Denhard (grades 1-4), Stanley “Stan” Gertz (grades 9-11)
1952-1953	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Evelyn Dorothy Denhard (grades 1-4), Ralph Ernest Mayes (grades 9-11)
1953-1954	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Elizabeth Victoria Masiowsky (grades 1-4), Ralph Ernest Mayes (grades 9-11)
1954-1955	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Elizabeth Victoria Masiowsky (grades 1-4), Nettie Kolodzinski Stadnyk (grades 9-11)
1955-1956	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Fredrick “Fred” Daciw (grades 9-11), Emily Kirner (grades 1-4)
1956-1957	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), John Alexander Campbell (grades 9-11), Phyllis Zemliak (grades 1-4)
1957-1958	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Frank John Gustaw (grades 9-11), Lydia Shirley Krizak (grades 1-4)
1958-1959	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Harry Chuckry (grades 9-10), Frank John Gustaw (grade 11), Lydia Shirley Krizak (grades 1-4)
1959-1960	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Susan Lillian Lentowicz (grades 1-4)
1960-1961	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Susan Lillian Lentowicz (grades 1-4)
1961-1962	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Susan Lillian Lentowicz (grades 1-4)
1962-1963	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 5-8), Erna Catherine Kyliuk (grades 1-4)
1963-1964	Theodore Orest “Ted” Jaremy (grades 5-8), Joan Edith Shelfontuk (grades 1-4)
1964-1965	Arthur Henry Bueckert (grades 4-6, 1964), Theodore Orest “Ted” Jaremy (grades 7-8, 1964; grades 6-8, 1965), Emily Minnie Koskie (grades 3-5, 1965), Sharon Louise Paschke (grades 1-3)
1965-1966	Norman Joseph “Joe” Golebioski (grades 5-6), Theodore Orest “Ted” Jaremy (grades 7-8), Emily Minnie Koske (grades 3-4), Sharon Louise Paschke (grades 1-3)
1966-1967	Irene Emily Eckhardt (grades 1-2), Norman Joseph “Joe” Golebioski (grades 7-8), Carol Marjorie Waldon (grades 3-4), Edith Margaret Williams (grades 5-6)
1967-1968	Mildred Cecile Burek (grades 6-7), Irene Emily Eckhardt Capka (grades 1-2), Norman Joseph “Joe” Golebioski (grades 7-8), Carol Marjorie Waldon (grades 3-4), Edith Margaret Williams (grades 5-6)
1960-1992	?
1992-?	Gwen McFadyen

Teachers (Hazelridge High School)

Period	Teachers
1959-1960	Harry Chuckry (grades 9-10), Frank John Gustaw (grade 11)
1960-1961	Frank Miksienko (grades 9-10), Ernest Pankratz (grade 11)
After 1961	See Springfield Collegiate

Photos & Coordinates

Hazelridge School (no date) by R. Goulet Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 143. The former Hazelridge High School building (no date) Source: Tighe McManus Hazelridge School (November 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, File 96 Hazelridge. Hazelridge School (October 2024) Source: Jean McManus Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.96265, W96.71749 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Klondyke School No. 1139 (RM of Springfield)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hazelridge Orange Hall (Hazelridge, RM of Springfield)

Sources:

Dugald East topographic map, 62H/15, Edition 2, Series A743 [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.

“Hazelridge notes,” Manitoba Free Press, 20 January 1916, page 2.