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Known as the Walkley School District when it was established formally in May 1904, named for early resident and postmaster James E. Walkley (1861-1945), it was renamed Lilydale in 1919. A one-room, wood frame schoolhouse operated at the southeast corner of NE9-14-6E in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements. In 1966, the school closed and the district was dissolved, its catchment area becoming part of the Happy Thought Consolidated School District.
The teachers of Lilydale School were Louis Hessling (1905), Vivian H. Durdew (1906), Louise C. Anderson (1906), Dorothy K. Lysoe (1907), Agnew McLemmand (1908), Annie McDonald (1908), Alice S. Price (1908-1909), Mabel I. Leslie (1910-1912), Mary I. Harper (1912-1913), Helen M. Hedley (1913-1916), Margaret Young (1917), Stella Stevenson (1917-1918), Ruth E. Oberg (1918), B. Larter (1919), Lavina Morgan (1920), Ella M. Jackson (1921), Jennie Moore (1921), Margaret Polson (1922), Handel Gealy (1922), Leah Sorritch (1923, 1924-1925), Thelma L. Coleman (1924), Mary Gryniuk (1925-1928), Alice Henrietta Clouston (1928-1930), Edith Elizabeth Bonner (1930-1932), Hannah Laurine Glover (1932-1933), Tina Semenko (1933-1934), Verna Helen Gunter (1934-1937), Lorna Leslie Duxbury (1937-1938), Anne Justine Kopack (1938-1940), Margaret M. L. Pollock (1940-1941), Demeter Lysack (1941-1942), Sophie Gerylo (1942-1945), Mr. Stanley Dudek (1945-1946), Fred Klym (1947), Irene Boyko (1947-1948), Miss Helen Yurkewich (1948-1949), Miss Eileen Stetman (1949-1950), Mr. P. Mikolayinko (1950), Mabel Belle Smithers (1951), Meroslava Beck (1951-1953), Kathleen Rose Litkowick (1953-1954), Laura J. Thorarinson (1954-1956), Elizabeth Phyllis Anderson (1956-1957), Miss Christine Chubey (1957-1958), Janet L. Sararas (1958-1959), Irene Lobodowsky (1959-1960), Victoria Tachinski (1960-1961), Albert Stamler (1961-1963), Helen Sum (1963-1964), and Jean Ann Smerchanski (1964-1966).
Lilydale School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 91.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.17432, W96.70372
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Pioneer and daughter died in hospital same day,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 September 1945, page 11.
School District Formation Files [Lilydale School District No. 1285], GR1688, E0027, 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.
East Side of the Red, 1884-1984 by St. Clements Historical Committee, 1984.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 April 2021
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