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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.
Period
Principal
1896-1897
Andrew Earnest Slater (1861-1939)
1897
Rufus Redmond Earle (1873-1949)
1898-1900
Andrew Earnest Slater (1861-1939)
1901
J. H. Cunningham
1901
Marshall Hall-Jones (1865-1927)
1902
Edward Hayes
1902-1903
W. G. Sandercock
1903-1904
James Andrew McKaughan (1877-1968)
1904-1910
James Boyd Morrison (1872-1941)
1910-1911
Angus McNevin (1862-1923)
1911
Lenore Kaulbach
1912
John Simpson
1912-1914
Victor Wellington Jenkins (1884-1950)
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. Ed 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
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)
School Year
Teachers
1894
Ida Crowell
1895
Louise Bodkin
1896
Annie B. Jamieson (junior grades), Andrew Earnest Slater (senior grades)
1897
Rufus Redmond Earle (senior grades, Fall), Andrew Earnest Slater (senior grades, Spring), Mary E. Hawthorne (junior grades)
1898
Mary E. Hawthorne (junior grades), Andrew Earnest Slater (senior grades)
1899
Emily Fraser (junior grades, Fall), Mary E. Hawthorne (junior grades, Spring), Andrew Earnest Slater (senior grades)
1900
Mary E. Hawthorne (junior grades), Andrew Earnest Slater (senior grades)
1901
J. H. Cunningham (senior grades, Spring), Marshall Hall-Jones (senior grades, Fall), Mary E. Hawthorne (junior grades)
1902
records not available
1903
records not available
1904
records not available
1905
Etta Hawthorne, Rossie M. McKee, James Boyd Morrison (senior grades)
1906
Etta Hawthorne, Nellie C. Kelty (Fall), Rossie M. McKee (Spring), James Boyd Morrison (senior grades)
1907
Etta Hawthorne (pt Spring), Nellie C. Kelty (pt Spring), Margaret McIsaac, Elizabeth McFeteridge (Fall), James Boyd Morrison (senior grades)
1908
Margaret McIsaac (Spring), Elizabeth McFeteridge, Ruby E. Moffatt (Fall), James Boyd Morrison (senior grades)
1909
Mary E. Bodkin (Fall), Elizabeth McFeteridge (Spring), Ruby E. Moffatt (Spring), James Boyd Morrison (senior grades), Arthur Wade (Fall)
1910
Mary E. Bodkin, Angus McNevin (senior grades, Fall), James Boyd Morrison (senior grades, Spring), Arthur Wade (Spring), Laura A. M. Wallace (Fall)
1911
Mary E. Bodkin, Lenore Kaulbach (senior grades, Fall), Angus McNevin (senior grades, Spring), Laura A. M. Wallace
1912
(January-June only): Mary E. Bodkin, John Simpson (senior grades), Annie Swanson
1912-1913
Victor Wellington Jenkins (senior grades), Frances [Francis?] C. Lander, Annie Swanson
1914-1915
Frances [Francis?] C. Lander, Emma Laura Suttis (senior grades), Annie Swanson
1915-1916
Francis C. Lander, Annie Swanson
1916-1917
Al Stevens
1917-1918
M. Muldoon, Al Stevens
1918-1919
M. Muldoon, H. B. Norton, Miss Phepackey, Al Stevens
1919-1920
M. Muldoon, Al Stevens
1920-1921
Kathleen Cameron, Miss K. Newcombe, M. Singleton
1921-1922
Kathleen Cameron, Jean Guthrie, Miss K. Newcombe, M. Singleton
1922-1923
Kathleen Cameron, Jean Guthrie, Miss K. Newcombe, M. Singleton
1923-1924
Kathleen Cameron, Miss K. Newcombe, M. Singleton
1924-1925
Miss K. Newcombe,
1925-1926
Miss K. Newcombe,
1926-1927
Freda A. Chapman (grades 4-5), Mabel A. I. De Witt (grades 1-3), Mae Noble Lee (grades 6-8), Harold Edwin Richard Murphy (grades 9-10)
1927-1928
E. M. Dewitt, A. Logan
1928-1929
E. M. Dewitt, A. Logan
1929-1930
Mildred Burnett, E. M. Dewitt, Willemina Yuill
1930-1931
Mildred Burnett, E. M. Dewitt, Willemina Yuill
1931-1932
Mildred Burnett, E. M. Dewitt, Willemina Yuill
1932-1933
E. M. Dewitt
1933-1934
E. M. Dewitt
1934-1935
E. M. Dewitt
1935-1936
E. M. Dewitt
1936-1937
E. M. Dewitt
Among the other teachers of Napinka School was William George “Bill” Bolton.
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 KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.32460, W100.84462
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
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.
Our First Century, Town of Melita and Municipality of Arthur: 1884-1984 by Melita-Arthur History Committee, 1983, pages 250-253.
Bridging Brenda: The History of Brenda Municipality and Area, Volume 1 by Brenda History Committee, 1990, pages 114-116.
Napinka School, Souris Street, Napinka, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Rose Kuzina, Darryl Toews, and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 January 2025
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