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The Rosamond School District was established formally in May 1905 and the first schoolhouse in McCreary had a single classroom located at SE4-21-15 west of the Principal Meridian in what would become the Municipality of McCreary. In 1917, a larger school building was constructed at the site and the original one was moved elsewhere to be used as a movie house and hardware store before being dismantled. The new two-storey Rosamond building had two classrooms on its main floor, with cloakrooms and an assembly area. There were two classrooms on the second floor and a small laboratory.
In 1936, it became McCreary Municipal School No. 1348. A new four-classroom elementary school was constructed beside it in 1952 and both structures were used until being closed in 1979, although senior students had moved out in 1959 when a five-classroom collegiate was built at another site. The two buildings were demolished by 1983. The old school bell (restored in 1987) tops a stone monument that was unveiled at the original site on 31 July 1994, along with a plaque listing other rural schools that operated in the McCreary region:
School
Period of Operation
Location(s)
1916-1967
SW21-20-13W
1917-1964
NE28-20-14W
1922-1965
SE33-21-15W
1914-1956
SE34-19-13W
1895-1921
NE17-21-15W
1913-1960
SE12-21-15W
1901-1966
NW23-19-14W
1917-1940
SE8-21-13W
1919-1933
NW31-21-13W
1899-1962
SW27-20-15W
1898-1966
NE34-20-15W and SE3-20-15W
1941-1962
SE24-20-15W
1905-1959
SW18-21-16W
1918-1962
NE29-21-14W
1911-1964
SW6-20-14W
Period
Principal
1915
John R. Reid
1916-1917
Flora May Thompson (1891-1964)
1917-1918
Marguerite Willard Robertson (1892-1987)
1918-1919
Clara Ellen Fletcher Dodd (1898-?)
1919-1923
Robert Cameron Mulligan (1889-1976)
1923-1925
Harvey Richard Brown (1895-1962)
1925-1926
George Gilbert Perry (1892-1971)
1926-1931
David Smith Tod (1870-1937)
1931-1935
Earl Duncan McKellar (1902-1984)
1935-1953
William Meldrum (1884-1959)
1953-1956
Harry Piniuta (1910-1990)
1956-1958
William Meldrum (1884-1959)
1958-1960
Ray E. Lavack
1960-1961
John Peter Tutkaluke (1914-1994)
1961-1962
A. H. Butler
1962-1963
George Papas
1963-1964
Oliver Glen Olmstead (?-1997)
1964-1965
Michael “Mike” Posmituck (1918-1996)
1965-1969
?
1969-1979
John Hildebrand
Among the early teachers of Rosamond School were no classes (Spring 1905 - Spring 1906), Clara S. Love (Fall 1906 - pt Spring 1907), Hattie M. Mathews (pt Spring 1907 - Spring 1908), Harold O. Leach (Fall 1908 - Spring 1909), Julienne Dandin? (Fall 1909 - Spring 1910), Fred. E. Palmiter [Palmatier?] (Fall 1910), A. Merkley (Spring-Fall 1911), did not operate? (Spring 1912), Frederic [Frederick] Roy Watson (Fall 1912 - Spring 1913), Arthur L. Cornwell (Fall 1913), and Blanche Alley (Spring 1914), and John R. Reid (Fall 1914 - Spring 1915).
During the 1950s, other McCreary School teachers included M. Morton, S. Rehaluk, B. Soucy, L. Sumner, M. Thierry, and M. Thompson. Among the later teachers of McCreary School was Leonard George “Len” Tyerman.
School Year
Teachers
1915-1916
John R. Reid (grades 3-8, August-December), Flora May Thompson (grades 3-8, January-June), Marie Louise Trottier (grades 1-2)
1916-1917
Blanche Campbell (grades 1-2), Flora May Thompson (grades 4-9)
1917-1918
Bernie Hey? (grades 1-4, February-June), Muriel Porter (grades 1-3, August-December; grades 1-4, January), Marguerite Willard Robertson (grades 4-9), Vera Williams (grades 1-4)
1918-1919
Annie Alexandra Campbell (grades 1-4), Clara Ellen Fletcher (grades 5-10)
1919-1920
Annie Alexandra Campbell (grades 1-3), Clara Ellen Fletcher (grades 4-6), Robert Cameron Mulligan (grades 7-11)
1920-1921
Annie Alexandra Campbell (grades 1-3, August-December; grade 1, January-June), Robert Cameron Mulligan (grades 7-11, August-December; grades 8-11, January-June), Elsie Snyder (grades 4-6, August-December; grades 5-7, January-June), Sarah Pearl Strong (grades 2-4, January-June)
1921-1922
Annie Alexandra Campbell (grades 1-2), Clarence John “Clare” Gillespie (grades 5-7), Robert Cameron Mulligan (grades 8-11), Sarah Pearl Strong (grades 3-5)
1922-1923
Clarence John “Clare” Gillespie (grades 5-7), Helen R. Hayden (grades 3-4), Janet Mary McDonald (grades 1-2), Robert Cameron Mulligan (grades 8-11)
1923-1924
Harvey Richard Brown (grades 8-11), Helen R. Hayden (grades 3-4), Jeanette M. Riddell (grades 1-2), Mary Elizabeth Usher (grades 5-7)
1924-1925
Harvey Richard Brown (grades 8-11), Helen R. Hayden (grades 3-4), Jeanette M. Riddell (grades 1-2), Mary Elizabeth Usher (grades 5-7)
1925-1926
Katherine Ruth Betts (grades 3-5, January-June), Phyllis M. Frank (grades 5-7, September-December; grades 6-8, January-June), Helen R. Hayden (grades 3-4, September-December), George Gilbert Perry (grades 8-11, September-December; grades 9-11, January-June), Muriel Kathleen Steen (grades 1-2)
1926-1927
(school closed first two weeks of January due to scarlet fever outbreak) Katherine Ruth Betts (grades 3-5), Christine Shewfelt (grades 5-8), Muriel Kathleen Steen (grades 1-2), David Smith Tod (grades 9-11)
1927-1928
Katherine Ruth Betts (grades 3-5), Christine Shewfelt (grades 6-8), Muriel Kathleen Steen (grades 1-2), David Smith Tod (grades 9-11)
1928-1929
Katherine Ruth Betts (grades 3-5), Isabelle Holmfrida Biggs (grades 1-2), Christine Shewfelt (grades 6-8), David Smith Tod (grades 9-11)
1929-1930
Bernice Clare Gorby (grades 3-5), Christine Shewfelt (grades 6-8), Eleanore Steen (grades 1-2), David Smith Tod (grades 9-11)
1930-1931
Bernice Clare Goreby (grades 3-5), Christine Shewfelt (grades 6-8), Eleanore Steen (grades 1-2), David Smith Tod (grades 9-11)
1931-1932
Marion Elizabeth Delmage (grades 1-2), Earl Duncan McKellar (grades 9-11), Kathleen Rosamond O’Neill (grades 3-5), Christine Shewfelt (grades 6-8)
1932-1933
Marion Elizabeth Delmage (grades 1-2), Earl Duncan McKellar (grades 9-11), Kathleen Rosamond O’Neill (grades 3-5), Christine Shewfelt (grades 6-8)
1933-1934
Marion Elizabeth Delmage (grades 1-2), Earl Duncan McKellar (grades 9-11), Christine Shewfelt (grades 6-8), Etheldreda Mary “Ethel” Tucker (grades 3-4)
1934-1935
Marion Elizabeth Delmage (grades 1-2), Earl Duncan McKellar (grades 9-11), Christine Shewfelt (grades 5-8), Etheldreda Mary “Ethel” Tucker (grades 3-4)
1935-1936
Marion Elizabeth Delmage (grades 1-2), William Meldrum (grades 9-11), Christine Shewfelt (grades 7-8), Margaret Elizabeth Tedford (grades 5-6), Etheldreda Mary “Ethel” Tucker (grades 3-4)
1936-1937
Marion Elizabeth Delmage (grades 1-2), John Francis Ennis (grades 7-8), William Meldrum (grades 9-11), Margaret Elizabeth Tedford (grades 5-6), Etheldreda Mary “Ethel” Tucker (grades 3-4)
1937-1938
Viola Barbara Copeland (grades 5-6), Marion Elizabeth Delmage (grades 1-2), Violet Mary Edwards (grades 3-4), John Francis Ennis (grades 7-8), William Meldrum (grades 9-11)
1938-1939
Viola Barbara Copeland (grades 5-6), Violet Mary Edwards (grades 3-4), John Francis Ennis (grades 7-8), Roderick Louis MacDonald (grade 11), William Meldrum (grades 9-10), Margaret Elizabeth Telford (grades 1-2)
1939-1940
Violet Mary Edwards (grades 3-4), John Francis Ennis (grades 7-8), Agnes Grace Little (grades 9-10), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Grace Melissa Shepherd (grades 1-2), Viola Barbara Copeland Stinson (grades 5-6)
1940-1941
L. Bourbonnais (grades 7-8, September-December), Salome Irene Carriere (grades 3-4, January-June), June Stanton Dale (grades 5-6), Violet Mary Edwards (grades 3-4, September-December; grades 7-8, January-June), Agnes Grace Little (grades 9-10), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Grace Melissa Shepherd (grades 1-2)
1941-1942
Lillian Mae Brister (grades 9-10), Laura Kathleen Brock (grades 1-2, January-June), Etheldreda Mary Tucker “Ethel” Ennis (grades 5-6), Dorothy Eleanor Hartley (grades 1-2, September-December), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), June Staunton Dale (grades 3-4)
1942-1943
John Francis Ennis (grades 6-8, September-December; grades 5-8, January-June), Renee Anna Fox (grades 1-2), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Edith Laura Thompson (grades 3-5, Septmeber-December; grades 3-4, January-June), Laurie Elizabeth Bush Tegelberg (grades 9-10)
1943-1944
Shirley Esther Cooper (grades 9-10), John Francis Ennis (grades 6-8), Etheldreda Mary Tucker “Ethel” Ennis (grades 3-5), Annie Sims (grades 1-2), William Meldrum (grades 11-12)
1944-1945
Jessie Evelyn Bryer (grade 2), Jean Dickie (grade 1), Etheldreda Mary Tucker “Ethel” Ennis (grades 3-5), John Francis Ennis (grades 6-8), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Annie Sims (grades 9-10)
1945-1946
Jessie Evelyn Bryer (grades 2-3), Jean Dickie (grade 1), Jennie Gowansky (grade 1 substitute, Fall), Etheldreda Mary Tucker “Ethel” Ennis (grades 3-5), John Francis Ennis (grades 6-8), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Annie Sims (grades 9-10)
1946-1947
Eileen Margaret English (grades 3-5), Marjorie Ethel Johnson (grade 1), Hymie Kliman (grades 10-11), William Meldrum (grades 9 & 12), Juliet L. Noiseux (grades 2-3), Michael Posmituck (grades 6-8)
1947-1948
Lois Elizabeth Blair (grades 9-10), Olga Code (grades 1-2), Norma Jean Houston (grades 4-5), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Juliet L. Noiseux (grades 2-3, September-December), Michael Posmituck (grades 6-8), Isabel Barbara Wilson (grades 2-3, January-June)
1948-1949
Lois Elizabeth Blair (grades 9-10), Lois M. Collins (grades 4-5), Cecile Bertha Legault (grades 1-2), Therese Lavoie (grades 2-3), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Michael Posmituck (grades 6-8)
1949-1950
Lois M. Collins (grades 4-5), Joyce M. Cooke (grades 9-10), Elisabeth Ann Lysack (grades 2-3), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Michael Posmituck (grades 6-8), Bernice Marie Saucy (grades 1-2)
1950-1951
Alberta Luella Hendy (grade 2), Ernest J. Jackson (grades 9-10), Mildred Alice Lloyd (grade 3), Elisabeth Ann Lysack (grades 5-6), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Leona Irene Poole (grades 4-5), Michael Posmituck (grades 7-8), Bernice Marie Saucy (grade 1)
1951-1952
Helene Doreen Bryan (grade 2, September-December), Olga Code (grades 5-6), Alberta Luella Hendy (grade 1), Mildred Alice Lloyd (grade 3), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Margaret Ruth Mooney (grades 9-10), Leona Irene Poole (grades 4-5), Michael Posmituck (grades 7-8), Ethel Pearl Rinn (grade 2, January-June)
1952-1953
Morris Paul Hykawy (grades 9 & 12, September-October; grade 9, November-June), Mildred Alice Lloyd (grade 3), William Meldrum (grades 10-11), Leona Irene Poole (grades 4-5), Michael Posmituck (grades 7-8), Ethel Pearl Rinn (grade 2), Viviane Louise Roy (grades 5-6), Annette Mary Turko (grade 1)
1953-1954
Mary Elspeth Getz (grade 9), Ruth Irene Heimann (grade 3, ?-June), Mildred Alice Lloyd (grade 3, September-December & January-?), Mrs. M. Marieske? (grades 5-6, January-?), Margaret Alice Morton (grades 5-6, September-December), Harry Piniuta (grades 11-12), Leona Irene Poole (grades 4-5), Michael Posmituck (grades 7-8), Ethel Pearl Rinn (grade 2), Annette Mary Turko (grade 1), John Osborn Wilson (grade 10)
1954-1955
Anita M. Delveaux (grade 1), Mildred L. Galanchuk (grade 9, September-December), Theresa S. Hall (grade 9, January-June), Sylvia Kehalyk (grades 5-6), Harry Piniuta (grades 11-12), Leona Irene Poole (grades 4-5), Michael “Mike” Posmituck (grades 7-8), Ethel Pearl Rinn (grade 2), Margaret Louise Summer (grade 3), John Osborn Wilson (grade 10)
1955-1956
John Howard Henderson (grade 9), Harry Piniuta (grades 11-12), Leona Irene Poole (grades 4-5), Michael “Mike” Posmituck (grades 7-8), Sylvia Jeanette Rehaluk (grade 6), Ethel Pearl Rinn (grade 2), Margaret Louise Summer (grade 3-4), Marion Jean Thomson (grade 1), John Osborn Wilson (grade 10)
1956-1957
Rose Marie Perrault Le Bas (grades 5-6), Irene Gladys Graham (grade 1), Margaret Graves (grades 4-5), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Olivier Bernard Muloin (grade 10), Leona Irene Poole Murphy (grades 3-4), Michael “Mike” Posmituck (grades 7-8), Ethel Pearl Rinn (grade 2), Marlene Y. Theirry (grade 9)
1957-1958
Florence Grace Chappell (grade 9), Etheldreda Mary Tucker “Ethel” Ennis (grades 4-5), Margaret Graves (grades 3-4), William Meldrum (grades 11-12), Olivier Bernard Muloin (grade 10), Leona Irene Poole Murphy (grades 5-6), Michael “Mike” Posmituck (grades 7-8), Ethel Pearl Rinn (grade 2), Elizabeth J. Shura (grade 1)
1958-1959
Clarence John Bender (grade 9), Olga Code (grade 1), Etheldreda Mary Tucker “Ethel” Ennis (grades 4-5), Ruth Evelyn Hoehn (grades 5-6), Ray E. Lavack (grades 11-12), Leona Irene Poole Murphy (grade 3), Michael “Mike” Posmituck (grades 7-8), Ethel Pearl Rinn (grade 2), John S. Schellenberg (grade 10)
1959-1960
Elizabeth (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1960-1961
Elizabeth (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1961-1962
Elizabeth (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1962-1963
Elizabeth (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1963-1964
Elizabeth (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1964-1965
Elizabeth (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1965-1966
Elizabeth (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1966-1967
Elizabeth (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue
1967-1976
Elizabeth Armstrong, Lois Arthur, H. Bunka, B. Chorneyko, G. Christie, Olga Code, E. Dunning, E. M. (Dreda) Ennis, M. Hanau, G. Haverstick, I. Jarko, J. Lindsay, R. Lofgren, S. Majury, V. Marciski, M. Mellquist, L. Oke, L. Paterson, J. Perchaluk, S. Savard, R. Slade, B. Smith, L. Sodomlak, C. Spewak, C. Stewart, L. Stewart, E. (Cantin) Tardiff, M. Totte
1976-1979
Elizabeth Armstrong, Lois Arthur, Floyd Clark, Olga Code, Gloria Haverstick, David Katsma, Viola Marciski, Linda Paterson, M. Totte
Rosamond School (no date) by C. K. Rogers
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 102.
McCreary schools commemorative monument beside a model of Rosamond School (June 2013)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.77291, W99.49713
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: McCreary Collegiate / McCreary School (Third Avenue, McCreary, Municipality of McCreary)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: McCreery School No. 797 (Municipality of Norfolk-Treherne)
“The local round,” Dauphin Herald, 20 October 1938, page 9.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
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.
“Add one position in Turtle R.,” Dauphin Herald, 6 September 1978, page 2.
McCreary: Milestones and Memories by McCreary History Book Committee, 1987, pages 139-147.
Obituary [Alberta Louella Hendy], Winnipeg Free Press, 12 December 1989, page 36.
Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques and Manitoba Community Commemorative Plaques, Fiscal Year 1994-1995, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship, page 33.
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, Rosamond School District No. 1348, GR6770, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, McCreary School District No. 1348, GR6770, Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 June 2024
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