Historic Sites of Manitoba: Lundar Consolidated School No. 1670 (Lundar, RM of Coldwell)

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The Lundar School District was established formally in February 1913 but it existed for only a few months before becoming the Lundar Consolidated School District. It operated a school in Lundar in the Rural Municipality of Coldwell. After the original school building was destroyed by fire on 8 July 1947, a new school opened in the fall of 1949, expanded with an addition on the back in December 1956.

Principals

Period	Principal
1913-1915	Raymond George Pannell (1894-1936)
1915-1916	Gudmundur Olafur Thorsteinson (1888-1934)
1916-1918	?
1918-1919	Elin Salome Halldorson (1887-1970)
1919-1920	Ivah B. Smith
1920-1922	Hjortur Jonas Leo (1875-1931)
1922-1923	Mary Hazel Dunseith (1900-1983)
1923-1924	Omar Ernest Campbell (1868-1936)
1924-1925	Leonard Krueger (c1898-1991)
1925-1928	Kristjan Bergthor Sigurdsson (1899-?)
1928-1929	Gordon Thomas MacDonell (1908-2004)
1929-1930	Kenneth Donald Bruce (1892-1968)
1930-1931	William Fogel (1903-1991)
1931-1933	Florence Mae Shirtliffe (1903-2006)
1933-1934	Nita Romanche [Romanczycz] (1910-1993)
1934-1935	Max Manishen
1935-1940	Benjamin Franklin Olson (1898-1981)
1940-1941	J. A. Carmichael
1941-1955	K. Felix Sigurdson
1955-1956	Bodvar Jon Skuli Bodvarson (1911-1972)
1956-1973	George Schroeder

Teachers

Among the other teachers at Lundar School were E. Salome Halldorson (1918-1919) and Benno Richard Klaassen (?-1979).

Photos & Coordinates

The original Lundar School (no date) by M. Hall-Jones Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 14. The original Lundar School being destroyed by fire (July 1947) Source: Judy Gleich The second Lundar School, opened in 1949 (no date) Source: Judy Gleich Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.69347, W98.03401 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Dehowa School No. 1451 (Poplarfield, RM of Fisher)

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Lundar topographic map, 62J/9, Edition 1, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].

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.

Wagons to Wings: History of Lundar and Districts, 1872-1980 by Lundar and District Historical Society, c1980.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

We thank Linda Collette, Nathan Kramer, and Judy Gleich for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 4 December 2022

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