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The James Valley School District was established formally in July 1919 from areas previously part of the Elmbank School District No. 1016 and Norway School District No. 1536 and a one-room schoolhouse was located in NE14-10-3W at the James Valley Hutterite Colony in the Rural Municipality of Cartier. The school district was reorganized into the White Horse Plain School Division in April 1967 which, in 2001 was consolidated into the Prairie Rose School Division.
A new two-room was built in 1972, itself measuring approximately 70 feet by 30 feet. That structure was replaced in 2013 with the construction of a 200 feet by 80 feet structure.
Period
Principal
1953-1956
Laura M. Fitzpatrick
1957-1965
none
1965-1966
Gerald Alexander Shabaga
Among the early teachers of James Valley School were Miss Zoe Block (Fall 1919 - Fall 1920), Joseph Murphy (January-February 1921), William Rea (February 1921 - Spring 1925 & Fall 1929 - Spring 1931), Clemence Aquin (Fall 1925 - Spring 1929), Lloyd Arthur McDermott (Fall 1931 - Spring 1938), Casimir Hollinger (Fall 1938 - Spring 1939), Stanley Arthur Kitcher (Fall 1939 - Spring 1940), Cecil W. Swanton (Fall 1940 - Spring 1941), Noble Edward Swanton (Fall 1941 - Spring 1942), and Laura M. Fitzpatrick (Fall 1942 - Spring 1953).
Period
Teachers
1953-1954
Idola Ann Bernardin (grades 1-3), Laura M. Fitzpatrick (grades 4-9)
1954-1955
Dora Blatz (grades 1-3), Laura M. Fitzpatrick (grades 4-8)
1955-1956
Laura M. Fitzpatrick (grades 4-9), Linda Schulz (grades 1-3)
1956-1957
Laura M. Fitzpatrick (grades 4-10, August-December; grades 1-10, December-June), Miss E. Monkman (grades 1-3, August-December)
1957-1965
See below
1965-1966
Leona Florence Painchaud (grades 1-3), Gerald Alexander Shabaga (grades 5-9)
Later teachers included Laura M. Fitzpatrick (Fall 1957 - Spring 1959), G. Labun (Fall 1959 - Spring 1960), Edith Mae Weidman Denby (Fall 1960 - Spring 1961), Shirley A. Rasmussen (Fall 1961 - Spring 1962), Elsie Carolyn Settee (Fall 1962 - Spring 1963), Phyllis Sylvia Clink (Fall 1963 - Spring 1964), Gerald Alexander Shabaga (Fall 1964 - Spring 1965), Fall 1965 - Spring 1966 (see above), Gerald Alexander Shabaga (Fall 1966 - Spring 1967), and Malcolm A. Watson (Fall 1967 - Spring 1968).
James Valley School (no date) by E. D. Parker
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
A 0233, GR8461, C131-3, page 75.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.83786, W97.75845
denoted by symbol on the map above
School District Formation Files (E 0027), James Valley School District No. 2000, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), James Valley School District No. 2000 - Daily Registers, GR11575, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
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.
Treasures of Time II: The Rural Municipality of Cartier, 1985-2014. Rural Municipality of Cartier, 2015.
We thank Gordon Goldsborough for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 22 January 2022
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