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The Langruth School District No. 1550 was established formally in October 1910, but it was short-lived, being consolidated early the next year, into the Langruth Consolidated School District, through its merger with Poplar Leaf School District No. 1303. Prior to consolidation, available records suggest Langruth School No. 1550 did not operate its own classroom nor employ a teacher of their own.
Langruth Consolidated School District No. 1303 was formed in May 1911, and a modest wood frame school building was erected in the village of Langruth, in what is now the Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone. During the balance of the 1911-1912 school year, students attended Poplar Leaf School before the Langruth Consolidated School opened for the autumn of 1912. That wood frame school saw primary use as school for the 1912-1913 school year, after which it was replaced by September 1913 with the brick schoolhouse. As of the late 1980s, that wooden building was still standing, and being used as a storage building.
The brick structure that replaced it was actively utilized until 1953, when it was replaced by a new two-storey wood frame building beside it. In 1960, high school grades were migrated to the newly built Langruth Collegiate on a nearby site along Highway #50 and the original school was used for elementary classes.
When the high school closed, students from the elementary school were moved in. The former elementary school sat empty for some time, then was renovated by the Sandy Lake First Nation for use as apartments for their school teachers. The building was later closed due to violation of health standards and has been sitting vacant for some years.
A monument on the grounds of the present Langruth Elementary School, topped by the former school bell and dedicated on 30 June 1984, commemorates rural schools that were consolidated with it through the years: Airedale School No. 1492, Amana School No. 928, Big Point School No. 962, Hecland School No. 1277, Hollywood School No. 1279, Lakeside School No. 225, Langruth School No. 1550, Marshland School No. 1278, and North Lakeland School No. 754.
Period
Principal
1920
Hilda Blanch Dalton
1920-1921
H. E. Bowen
1921-1923
James Thomas Hulme (1864-1938)
1923-1924
George Robert Farrar Prowse (1860-1946)
1924-1925
Mrs. G. Thorleifson
1925-1927
L. Thorleifson
1927-1928
Albert Wallace Craigie (1891-1964)
1928-1931
Bruce W. Cowan
1931
Annie Segall
1931-1935
Glenn Homer Turner (1912-1987)
1935-1938
Cameron Laird Connell (1913-2010)
1938-1939
Allan Thomas Fallis (1911-1971)
1940
Henry Benjamin Bees (c1886-1968)
1940-1944
Benjamin Foreman (c1898-1981)
1944-1949
William Vladimir “Bill” Domitrack (1908-1978)
1949
Frank E. Lewis
1949
George Isaac Herman Garrett (1884-1977)
1950
Ethel Wood
1950-1955
Gerald Lionel Kuran (?-?)
1955-1956
Florence Grace Chappell (1912-1967)
1956-1957
Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1957-1958
Victoria Olive Crealock Hall (1901-1971)
Among the other teachers of Langruth School was Arthur John Charles Starr (?-?).
School Year
Teachers
1911-1912
1912-1913
L. S?. Mason (pt Fall), Joseph S. Falconer (pt Fall - June)
1913-1914
William J. Edwards
1914-1915
George Isaac Herman Garrett (grades 1-8)
1915-1916
George Isaac Herman Garrett (grades 1-8)
1916-1917
Mrs. G. Thorleifson (grades 1-9)
1917-1918
Mrs. G. Thorleifson (grades 1-10)
1918-1919
Mrs. G. Thorleifson (grades 1-10)
1919-1920
Hilda Blanch Dalton (grades 1-10, September-January; grades 6-11, January-June), Edith Blanche Starratt (grades 1-6, January-June)
1920-1921
H. E. Bowen (grades 6-11), Mildred Reid (grades 1-5)
1921-1922
Edna C. Dick (grades 1-5, August-December), James Thomas Hulme (grades 6-11), Hilda B. Johannson (grades 1-5, January-June)
1922-1923
James Thomas Hulme (grades 9-11), Hilda B. Johannson (grades 5-8), Gladys Isabelle Sleigh (grades 1-4)
1923-1924
George Robert Farrar Prowse (grades 6-11), Gladys Isabelle Sleigh (grades 1-5)
1924-1925
Irene J. McGregor (grades 1-4), Mrs. G. Thorleifson (grades 5-10)
1925-1926
Mary Edith Milton (grades 1-3), L. Thorleifson (grades 4-9, September-December; grades 5-10, January-June)
1926-1927
Mary Edith Milton (grades 1-3), L. Thorleifson (grades 4-10)
1927-1928
Albert Wallace Craigie (grades 9-11), Mary Edith Milton (grades 1-3), L. Thorleifson (grades 4-8)
1928-1929
Bruce W. Cowan (grades 4-9, November-June), Mary Edith Milton Palmer (grades 1-3), Frederick. C. Sanderson (grades 4-9, September-November)
1929-1930
Bruce W. Cowan (grades 4-9), Elsie Greer (grades 1-3)
1930-1931
Bruce W. Cowan (grades 4-9, August-April), Elsie Greer (grades 1-3), Annie Segall (grades 4-9, April-June)
1931-1932
Glenn Homer Turner (grades 4-10), Linnie Young Wilson (grades 1-3)
1932-1933
Glenn Homer Turner (grades 4-9), Linnie Young Wilson (grades 1-3)
1933-1934
Muriel Genevieve Cunningham (grades 5-8), Glenn Homer Turner (grades 9-11), Linnie Young Wilson (grades 1-4)
1934-1935
Muriel Genevieve Cunningham (grades 5-8), Glenn Homer Turner (grades 9-11), Linnie Young Wilson (grades 1-4)
1935-1936
Cameron Laird Connell (grades 9-11), Emma Serbin (grades 1-4), Alfred Leslie Singleton (grades 5-8)
1936-1937
Cameron Laird Connell (grades 9-11), Ruth Annie Fairlie (grades 5-8), Emma Serbin (grades 1-4)
1937-1938
Cameron Laird Connell (grades 9-11), Ruth Annie Fairlie (grades 5-8), Lillian Townley McAdam (grades 1-4)
1938-1939
Margaret Ilene Connell (grades 1-4), Allan Thomas Fallis (grades 9-11), Mina Elaine Wardrop (grades 5-8)
1939-1940
Henry Benjamin Bees (grades 9-11, January-June), Margaret Ilene Connell (grades 1-4), Allan Thomas Fallis (grades 9-11, September-December), Mina Elaine Wardrop (grades 5-8)
1940-1941
Benjamin Foreman (grades 9-11), Hildda Isobel Garland (grades 1-4), Sigrun Anna Johannsson (grades 5-8)
1941-1942
Benjamin Foreman (grades 9-11), Margaret Eliza Lloyd (grades 1-4), Flora Mathison (grades 5-8)
1942-1943
Benjamin Foreman (grades 9-11), Lilja Maria Guttormsson (grades 4-8), Margaret Eliza Lloyd (grades 1-4)
1943-1944
Jean Alexandra Campbell (grades 5-8), Benjamin Foreman (grades 9-11), Elsie May Stowe (gtrades 1-4)
1944-1945
Mary McL. Cooke (grades 1-4), William Vladimir Domitrack (grades 9-11), Velma Ruth Schott (grades 5-8)
1945-1946
William Vladimir Domitrack (grades 9-11), Helga Jackson (grades 1-4), Velma Ruth Schott (grades 5-8)
1946-1947
Lawrence Paul Beally (grades 5-8, October-June), William Vladimir Domitrack (grades 9-11), Helga Jackson (grades 1-4), M. G. Pippy (grades 5-8, September)
1947-1948
William Vladimir Domitrack (grades 9-11), Polly Filewich (grades 3-5), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Anne Paziuk (grades 6-8)
1948-1949
Vera Ellen Clarke (grades 6-8), William Vladimir Domitrack (grades 9-11), Beatrice Mae McDonald (grades 3-5), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2)
1949-1950
Vera Ellen Clarke (grades 6-8), George Isaac Herman Garrett (grades 9-11, November-December), Frank E. Lewis (grades 9-11, August-November), Beatrice Mae McDonald (grades 3-5), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Ethel Wood (grades 9-11, January-June)
1950-1951
Marion Joyce Anderson (grades 6-8, April-June), Vera Ellen Clarke Hanneson (grades 6-8, August-March), Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Gerald Lionel Kuran (grades 9-11, August-October; grades 10-11, October-June), Margaret MacKay (grade 9, October-June), Beatrice Mae McDonald (grades 3-5)
1951-1952
Robert Leonard Duane Duff (grades 6-8), Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Beatrice Mae McDonald Kuran (grades 4-5), Gerald Lionel Kuran (grade 11), Margaret MacKay (grades 9-10)
1952-1953
Nina Gurowka (grades 3-5, April-June), Vera Ellen Clarke Hanneson (grades 6-8, January-June), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Margaret “P” Krueger (grades 9-10), Beatrice Mae McDonald Kuran (grades 3-5, September-April), Gerald Lionel Kuran (grade 11), Mrs. H. Thompson (grades 6-8, September-December)
1953-1954
Elizabeth Ann Baker (grades 5-6), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Gerald Lionel Kuran (grades 9-11), Catherine Louise “Cathy” Marchant (grades 3-4), Wilmer John Shynkaruk (grades 7-8)
1954-1955
Barbara Anne Bosworth (grades 5-6), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Gerald Lionel Kuran (grades 9-11), Catherine Louise “Cathy” Marchant (grades 3-4), Wilmer John Shynkaruk (grades 7-8)
1955-1956
Florence Grace Chappell (grades 11-12), Vera G. Doell (grades 3-4, August-December), Victoria Olive Crealock Hall (grades 9-10), Barbara Anne Bosworth Jackson (grades 5-6, August-October; grades 5-7, October-December; grades 4-6, January-June), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Haldor Marvin “Hal” Sveistrup (grades 7-8, August-October; grades 8-9, October-December; grades 7-8, January-June)
1956-1957
Victoria Olive Crealock Hall (grades 9-10), Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Robert Cameron Mulligan (grades 11-12), Elizabeth J. Shura (grades 4-5), Haldor Marvin “Hal” Sveistrup (grades 6-8)
1957-1958
Victoria Olive Crealock Hall (grades 11-12), Vera Ellen Clarke Hanneson (grades 3-5), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Raymond James McNeill (grade 10), Annette Turko (grades 6-8), Margaret C. Wilson (grade 9)
Period
Principal
1958-60
Victoria Olive Crealock Hall (1901-1971)
After 1960
School Year
Teachers
1958-1959
Gerald L. Duneault (grade 9), Victoria Olive Crealock Hall (grades 11-12), Henry Wiebe (grade 10)
1959-1960
David William Bertram (grade 9), Victoria Olive Crealock Hall (grades 11-12), Henry Wiebe (grade 10)
After 1960
Period
Principal
1958-1971
Raymond James “Ray” McNeill (1915-1984)
After 1971
School Year
Teachers
1958-1959
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 3-5), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Raymond James McNeill (grades 6-8)
1959-1960
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 4-6), Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Raymond James McNeill (grades 7-8)
1960-1961
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 4-6), Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Raymond James McNeill (grades 7-8)
1961-1962
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 4-6), Helga Jackson (grades 1-3, August-December; grades 2-3, January-June), Raymond James McNeill (grades 7-8), Betty Oliver (grades 1-2, January-June)
1962-1963
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 3-5, September-April), Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Raymond James McNeill (grades 6-8), Betty Oliver (grades 3-5, April-June)
1963-1964
Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Raymond James McNeill (grades 6-8), Helga Elizabeth Sigurdson (grades 4-5)
1964-1965
Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Helga Elizabeth Sigurdson Lasson (grades 3-5), Raymond James McNeill (grades 6-8)
1965-1966
Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Helga Elizabeth Sigurdson Lasson (grades 3-5), Raymond James McNeill (grades 6-8)
1966-1967
Helga Jackson (grades 1-3), Elizabeth Nettie Johnson (grades 3-5), Raymond James McNeill (grades 6-8)
1967-1968
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 5-6), Helga Jackson (grades 1-2), Elizabeth Nettie Johnson (grades 3-4), Raymond James McNeill (grades 7-8)
1968-1969
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 5-6), Elizabeth Nettie Johnson (grades 3-4), Iona Ann Eileen Lasson (grades 1-2), Raymond James McNeill (grades 7-8)
1969-1970
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 5-6), Elizabeth Nettie Johnson (grades 3-4), Iona Ann Eileen Lasson (grades 1-2), Raymond James McNeill (grades 7-8)
1970-1971
Vera Ellen Hanneson (grades 5-6), Elizabeth Nettie Johnson (grades 3-4), Iona Ann Eileen Lasson (grades 1-2), Raymond James McNeill (grades 7-8)
After 1971
The first Langruth Consolidated School (no date) by J. B. Morrison
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 94.
The first Langruth School building (circa 1990)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 546.
The second Langruth Consolidated School, with the earlier school building visible to the left (no date) by J. B. Morrison
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 94.
The second Langruth Consolidated School (circa 1913)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspector Photos GR2664, C65.
Students and horse-drawn vans beside the second Langruth School (circa 1914)
Source: Education Department Report, 1914, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Langruth Elementary School (November 1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission,
File 85B - Langruth Elementary School.
The second Langruth School building (no date)
Source: Ed Arndt
The second Langruth School building (no date)
Source: Ed Arndt
The third Langruth School building (circa 1990)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 545.
The third Langruth School, later used as a teachers’ residence by the Sandy Lake First Nation, now closed (April 2012)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The third Langruth School (May 2022)
Source: Alisa Kehler
Monument for the Langruth School, topped by its bell, in front of Langruth Elementary School (April 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.38819, W98.67490
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Langruth Collegiate / Langruth School / Langruth Elementary School (Langruth, Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)
Personal Memoirs: Memories of Teaching at Langruth School (1951-1952) by Duane Duff
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
A Tribute to Soldiers and Pioneers of the Langruth District, T. W. Taylor Company Limited, pages 116-117, 1950.
“Langruth news,” Portage la Prairie Leader, 3 September 1953, page 11.
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Langruth School District No. 1303 - Daily Registers, GR3152, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Marshland School District No. 1278 Daily Registers, GR3152, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Departmental Bulletin - Vol. 3 No. 1 - September 1913 [Langruth Consolidated School], Forest School District No. 202 - Daily Registers, GR2085, Archives of Manitoba.
Schools in Manitoba - Volume 2, Langruth Elementary School - File 85B, Local Government Boundaries Commission, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
“Langruth Principal is retiring,” MacGregor Herald, 30 June 1976, page 1.
Obituary [Hal Sveistrup], BrockieDonovan Funeral Services.
We thank Philip Thordarson, Ed Arndt, and Alisa Kehler for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 7 September 2024
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