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The Mowat School District was organized formally in April 1903 and a one-room, wood frame building was erected the next year at SW7-29-18W in the Rural Municipality of Mossey River. A larger schoolhouse replaced the original one sometime in the 1920s. It was destroyed by fire in January 1951 and was replaced later that fall. The district joined the Dauphin-Ochre River school area in 1967 and closed in June 1968, with remaining students bused to Dauphin. The building is no longer present at the site, having been moved to the village of Sifton in 1969 and used for a short time as a pool hall, after which it was vacant. A sign commemorates the school at its former site.
Period
Principal
1921
Clarence Wilbert Fines (1902-1994)
1922
Reta Victoria Breakey
1922-1923
Anna Terry
1923-1926
Dwight John Adolphus Dahlgren (1901-1992)
1926
Louis Erwin “Lewis” Gendron (1896-1973)
1926-1927
William Fogel
1927-1928
Norman Ernest Wright (1906-1957)
1928-1929
David Kidd
1929-1930
Muriel Amelia Robertson Redpath (1906-1984)
1930
Bill Davidson
1930-1931
William John Schultz (1899-1988)
Period
Teachers
1920-1921
Clarence Wilbert Fines (grades 1-6, 1920; grades 4-8, 1921), ? (grades 1-3, 1921)
1921-1922
Reta Victoria Breakey (grades 1-3, 1921; grades 4-8, 1922), Kathleen Kenner (grades 1-3, 1922), ? (grades 4-8, 1921)
The other teachers of Mowat School included George E. Basham (1904-1905), Miss Hill (1905), Mr. Barrett (1905), Bob Frame (1905-1906), F. H. Whole (1906-1908), Mrs. Emma Rice (1908-1910), Miss Marcroft (1910-1911), Alvin Swanton (1911-1912), James “Jim” Lintick (1913-1915), Grace Beach (1916-1917), John Mayne (1917-1918), Miss Kenner (1918), Fred Jarvis (1919-1920), Mr. Pepper (1920-1922), Rita Breakey (1922-1923, 1926-1927), Clarence David “Casey” Voigt (1923-1926), Ethel Whitney (1927-1929), Emma Serbin (1929), Mary Reid (1930-1931), Edith Watson (1932-1933), Anna Campbell (1934), Evelyn Davidson (1934-1939), Elsie Burton (1939-1942), Mrs. Mary Shannon (1942), Mrs. Ruth Galbraith (1943-1944), Mrs. Alice Drebnisky (1945), Nick Stokotelny (1946), Mrs. Garlinsky (1947-1948), Mrs. Muriel Waters (1949-1950), Wally Homeniuk (1950-1951), Rose Berezowicki (1951), Mrs. Beulah Waldack (1952-1954), Jean Zaplitney (1954-1955), Stella Orisko (1955-1957), Betty Fleming (1957-1959), Barry Knight (1959-1960), and Mrs. Ethel Stanley (1960-1968).
The second Mowat School building (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 81.
Mowat School commemorative sign (May 2012)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.46320, W100.01725
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Mossey River Schools Monument (Fork River, RM of Mossey River)
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.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Pioneers of the Mowat School District No. 1232, 1904-1968 [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.M73 P10, circa 1968]
Memoirs “From the Past”: Rural Municipality of Mossey River, Mossey River History Book Committee, 1999. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.M69 Mem]
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 October 2019
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