Historic Sites of Manitoba: Napinka School No. 829 (Napinka, Municipality of Brenda-Waskada)

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Napinka School No. 829 was established formally in September 1894 and a school building was erected at Napinka in what is now the Municipality of Brenda-Waskada. Construction of the structure is unusual in that it is made locally acquired field stones, assembled under the supervision of stonemason I. J. Phinney. Classrooms on the main floor accommodated students in the lower grades while high school students and a library were situated in the basement.

In 1959, the school became Napinka Consolidated School No. 2369 when it was consolidated with Menota School No. 519 and Tremblay School No. 707. Students from other rural schools in the vicinity came here as they closed in the 1960s. In 1968, the school became part of the Antler River School Division.

The building, a municipally designated heritage site as of 1994, is now used as a drop-in centre for seniors.

Principals

Period	Principal
1901-1902	Edward Hayes
1902-1903	W. G. Sandercock
1903-1904	James Andrew McKaughan (1877-1968)
1904-1909	James Boyd Morrison (1872-1941)
1909-1911	Angus McNevin (1862-1923)
1911-1912	?
1912-1914	Victor Wellington Jenkins (1884-?)
1914-1915	Emma Laura Suttis (1881-1971)
1915-1918	James Ogel Beckstead (1883-1985)
1918-1919	George Patrick Stevens (c1888-1988)
1919-1932	Harold Edwin Richard Murphy (1894-1975)
1932-1933	George Edgar Haywood (c1902-1985)
1933-1934	J. E. Wellwood
1934-1936	John Macgregor Wilkie (1904-1991)
1936-1938	M. S. Blanchard
1938-1940	Andrew M. Young
1940-1942	Percival Henry “Percy” Ford (1911-1971)
1942-1944	Archibald George Hickling (1910-1968)
1944-1948	?
1948-1949	Frank E. Lewis
1949-1951	James Maxwell Taylor
1951-1953	Janet Louisa May More (1896-1986)
1953-1954	Steven Saul Rifkin (c1931-2021)
1954-1955	Marion J. Staple
1955-1958	Olafia Jonina Jonsson Melan (1887-1966)
1958-1959	J. L. Horky
1959-1961	N. Hlysky
1961-1962	Frank Veregin (1931-2001)
1962-1963	R. Smith
1963-1967	Anton “Tony” Rittaler (1917-2008)

Teachers

Among the other teachers of Napinka School were Marshall Hall-Jones and W. G. Bolton.

Photos & Coordinates

Napinka School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 7. Napinka School (1968) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Napinka 7. The former Napinka School building (circa 1986) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 183. The former Napinka School building (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough The former Napinka School building (September 2021) Source: Rose Kuzina Rear of the former Napinka School building (September 2021) Source: Rose Kuzina Basement of the former Napinka School building (September 2021) Source: Rose Kuzina Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.32460, W100.84462 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites

Sources:

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.

Napinka School, Souris Street, Napinka, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.

We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 29 January 2022

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