Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hodgson School No. 2044 / Hodgson Pioneers Monument (Hodgson, RM of Fisher)

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The Hodgson School District was organized formally in August 1920 and a schoolhouse operated in Hodgson in what later became the Rural Municipality of Fisher. By the late 1950s it was a two-classroom building, with grades 1-2 in one room and grades 3-5 in the other. A separate one-room building to the north hosted classes in grades 6-8. Typically, the teacher in grades 6-8 was also Principal of the entire facility. After the school closed in the late 1970s, the two-room building was used as a community centre. Its catchment area became part of the Lakeshore School Division.

A monument in front of the Hodgson Community Hall summarizes some local history. The community is named for Henry R. Hodgson, the first postmaster for an office opened in 1912. The area flourish with the arrival of the Canadian Northern Railway in 1914 and eventually had several stores, restaurants, livery stables, hotels, a dance hall and theatre, curling and skating rinks, a pool hall, police station (opened in 1919), churches (Anglican opened 1919-1920), blacksmith shops, a barber shop, butcher shop, and saw mill. A road reached the community in 1937. Manitoba Natural Resources opened an office here in the 1940s and a grain elevator was constructed in 1949. Hydro electricity reached it in 1952, and Legion Hall No. 158 opened in 1958.

Principals

Period	Principal
1948	Aime Guilbert
1949	Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1949-1950	Benny Zenon Orlins (?-1996)
1950-1951	Daisy Margaret Melanson
1951-1953	Joseph Grodecki (1925-2011)
1953	Maurice Kohut (1926-2020)
1954	Francis Grey
1954-1958	William Glitnak
1958-1959	Haraldur Asgeir Johannes “Harvey” Benson (1924-2021)
1959-1960	Henry B. Esau
1960-1962	Henry Allan Wiebe
1962-1963	Ernie George Dyck
1963-1964	Abram Peters
1964-1965	Monroe Dean Doerksen
1965-1966	Patricia Benson
1966-1967	Olga Grouch
1967-1968	Percy Lawrence Fuz
1968-1969	Mr. A. H. Ali

Teachers

Period	Teachers
1920-1921	?
1921-1922	?
1922-1923	?
1923-1924	Josephine Gladys Dunphy
1924-1925	William Kristjanson, L. G. Francis
1925-1926	Ervyn Milne “Erv” Houck, Stanley C. Bott
1926-1927	Montague Shore
1927-1928	Montague Shore
1928-1929	?
1929-1930	H. R. McCaw
1930-1931	Katherine Jean Fulton
1931-1932	Katherine Jean Fulton
1932-1933	Ernest Lorne Moffat
1933-1934	Edward Marshall Maguire
1934-1935	Olga Elsie Uhrynuik
1935-1936	Olga Elsie Uhrynuik
1936-1937	Daniel Malofie
1937-1938	Daniel Malofie
1938-1939	Daniel Malofie
1939-1940	Daniel Malofie
1940-1941	Paul Harry Rudiak, John M. Parsey
1941-1942	Stephanie Winifred Malkowich
1942-1943	Sheila Joyce Hodkinson
1943-1944	Judy L. Lucko, Marjorie Anne Walker, Eugenie Packulak McIvor
1944-1945	Eugenie Packulak McIvor
1945-1946	Eugenie Packulak McIvor
1946-1947	Josephine L. Lupkowski
1947-1948	Kathleen Evelyn Torsky
1948-1949	Aime Guilbert (grades 4-9, 1948), Robert Cameron Mulligan (grades 4-9, 1949), Kathleen Esther Thorpe (grades 1-3)
1949-1950	Rose Danylo (grades 1-3), Benny Zenon Orlins (grades 4-9)
1950-1951	Daisy Margaret Melanson (grades 4-9), Jean Elizabeth Young (grades 1-3)
1951-1952	Joseph Grodecki (grades 8-10), Daisy Margaret Melanson (grades 4-7), Marie J. Melanson (grades 1-3), Jean S. Williamson (grades 1-3, 1951)
1952-1953	Helen A. Giesbrecht (grades 1-4), Joseph Grodecki (grades 9-11), William K. “Bill” Schellenberg (grades 5-8)
1953-1954	Anne Antonchuk (grades 1-4), Francis Grey (grades 9-11, 1954), Joseph Grodecki (grades 9-11, 1953), M. Kohut (grades 9-11, 1953), Philip (Filko) “Phil” Kozokowsky (grades 5-8)
1954-1955	William Glitnak (grades 9-11), Philip (Filko) “Phil” Kozokowsky (grades 5-8), Helen Pankratz (grades 1-4)
1955-1956	William Glitnak (grades 9-12), William “Bill” Kartushyn (grades 3-4), Henry Andrew Michalow (grades 5-8), Shirley Anne Reid (grades 1-2)
1956-1957	William Glitnak (grades 9-12), Michael Kartushyn (grades 6-8), William “Bill” Kartushyn (grades 3-5), Daisy Margaret Melanson (grades 1-2), Lorette Tinguely (grades 1-2, 1956)
1957-1958	William Glitnak (grades 9-11), William “Bill” Kartushyn (grades 6-8), Daisy Margaret Melanson (grades 1-2), Anne Wallack (grades 3-5)
1958-1959	Harvey Benson (grades 9-11), Daisy Margaret Melanson (grades 1-2), Gilbert “Gil” Reimer (grades 5-8), Judy Ward (kindergarten - grade 2)
1959-1960	Henry B. Esau (grades 6-8), Betty Goertzen (grades 3-5), Nellie Hnatiuk (kindergarten - grade 3)
1960-1961	Betty Goertzen (grades 3-5), Josephine Sinclair (grades 1-2, 1961), Nellie Smith (grades 1-2), Henry Allan Wiebe (grades 6-8)
1961-1962	Hilda Dyck (grades 3-5), Anna Steinunn (kindergarten - grade 2), Henry Allan Wiebe (grades 6-8)
1962-1963	Ernie George Dyck (grades 6-8), Tina Dyck (grades 3-5), Denise Evelyn Payment (grades 1-2)
1963-1964	Florence Dora Lisowik (grades 3-5), Barbara Lillian Truthwaite (grades 1-2), Abram Peters (grades 6-8)
1964-1965	Monroe Dean Doerksen (grades 4-8), Florence Dora Lisowik (grades 3-5, 1964), Barbara Lillian Truthwaite (grades 1-3), ? (grades 3-5, 1966)
1965-1966	Mary Andres (grades 1-2), Patricia Benson (grades 5-8), Concepcion A. Flores (grades 3-4)
1966-1967	Mary Andres (grades 1-2), Shirley Ann Falk (grades 3-4), Olga Grouch (grades 5-8)
1967-1968	Mary Andres (grades 1-2), Percy Lawrence Fuz (grades 5-8), Barbara Lillian Truthwaite (grades 3-4)
1968-1969	Mr. A. H. Ali (grades 4-5), Josephine Marie Laurans (grades 1-3)
1969-1970	Josephine Marie Laurans (grades 1-3)
1970-1971	Vera Irene Wylychenko (grades 1-2)
1971-1972	Vera Irene Wylychenko (grades 1-3)
1972-1973	Vera Irene Wylychenko (grades 1-3)
1973-1974	Vera Irene Wylychenko (grades 1-4)
1974-1975	Vera Irene Wylychenko (grades 1-3)
1975-1976	Vera Irene Wylychenko (grades 1-3)
1976-1977	Vera Irene Wylychenko (grades 1-3)
1977-1978	Vera Irene Wylychenko (grades 1-3)

Photos & Coordinates

Hodgson pioneers monument in front of the former Hodgson School (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.21437, W97.57196 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hodgsonville School No. 1835 (RM of Fisher)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hodgson School No. 1706 / Corona School No. 1706 (RM of Springfield)

Sources:

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.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Hodgson School District No. 2044 Daily Registers, GR11220, Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Henry Esau for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 18 September 2021

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