Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maple School / Maple Creek School (Miami Colony, Rural Municipality of Thompson)

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The Maple Creek School was opened in 1968 as a independent private school at Miami Colony within the Rural Municipality of Thompson. More commonly known as Maple School (during the 1970s), by 1969 it joined the Midland School Division where it remained and later reverted to its primary Maple Creek School name. In 2001, it was consolidated into the Prairie Rose School Division.

Principals

Period

Principal

1970-1977

Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (1922-2016)

1977-1978

Ramsay Ramroop Gopaul

1978-1979

Neil Robert Martin

Teachers

Period

Teachers

1968-1969

Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (grades 1-8)

1969-1970

Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (grades 1-9)

1970-1971

Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (grades 3-9), Maureen Mavis Sjoberg (grades 1-2)

1971-1972

Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (grades 3-8), Karen Anne Ruth Roberts (grades 1-2)

1972-1973

Robert Moors Johnston (grades 4-8), Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (kindergarten & grades 1-3)

1973-1974

Neil David Campbell (grades 4-9), Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (grades 1-3)

1974-1975

Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (grades 1-3), John Stephen Schellenberg (grades 4-9)

1975-1976

Donald Garth Leary (grades 4-8), Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (kindergarten & grades 1-3)

1976-1977

Donald Garth Leary (grades 4-9), Thelma Marion Phillips Millar (grades 1-3)

1977-1978

Ramsay Ramroop Gopaul (grades 1-4), Neil Robert Martin (grades 5-9)

1978-1979

Margaret Rose Lesniewski (grades 1-4), Neil Robert Martin (grades 5-9)

1979-1980

Margaret Rose Lesniewski (kindergarten & grades 1-9)

1980-1981

Margaret Rose Lesniewski (kindergarten & grades 1-7)

Photos & Coordinates

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.29033, W98.21298
denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maple School No. 584 (Municipality of WestLake-Gladstone)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Norway School No. 1536 / Norway School No. 2 / Maple School No. 2313 / Waldheim School (Waldheim Colony, Municipality of Cartier)

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Maple Creek School No. 2275 (RM of Lac du Bonnet)

Sources:

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.

This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 6 March 2025

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