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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.
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
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
1927-1928
1928-1929
?
1929-1930
H. R. McCaw
1930-1931
Katherine Jean Fulton
1931-1932
Katherine Jean Fulton
1932-1933
Ernest Lorne Moffat
1933-1934
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 Stuart 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)
Hodgson pioneers monument in front of the former Hodgson School (October 2011)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite 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)
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: 30 June 2024
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