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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
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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