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The former Ninga School building in Ninga, in the Rural Municipality of Turtle Mountain, was built in 1929 to replace an older building erected in 1908, designed by Winnipeg architect G. G. Teeter, that had been destroyed by fire. After the school closed in 1973, the building was renovated into a private residence.
Period
Principal
1900
Robert Leslie
1900-1903
James Alfred Laird (1873-1908)
1904
?
1905-1908
Elbridge Doty Parker (1884-1981)
1908
Winfred Elmore Marsh (1872-1932)
1909
?
1910
George Cecil Speers (1886-1958)
1911
Archibald James McIntyre (1886-?)
1912
William John Rose (1885-1968)
1912-1913
A. J. [C.? F.?] Matthias
1913-1915
James Ogel Beckstead (1883-1985)
1915-1916
George James Elliott (1869-1948)
1916
Alex Russell
1917
Wilfred Almon Rideout (1878-1949)
1917-1918
S. Christie Atkinson
1918-1919
Edith Ann Fingland (1877-1957)
1919-1921
Olive Marion Evelyn Crookshanks (1892-1984)
1921-1925
Anna S. MacKenzie
1925-1926
Alfred Blakely Gillespie (1870-1939)
1926-1929
George Boyer Poole (1880-1958)
1929
Eleanor M. Pellisson?
1930-1938
Allan Alexander “Andy” Anderson (1892-1981)
1938-1941
Robert John Coates (1908-1990)
1941
Frank Benbow Fox (1890-1964)
1941-1943
Iris Ada Caroline Diamond (1905-1990)
1943-1944
Nora Edith Sankey (1916-1996)
1944-1945
John S. Schellenberg (1899-1977)
1945-1949
John Franklin Morrison (1910-1984)
1949-1955
Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (1907-1985)
1955-1956
Douglas Gordon Pomeroy (1911-1968)
1956
J. B. Norrie
1956-1957
Ralph Ernest Mayes (1891-1969)
1957-1958
Alexander “Alex” Korzeniowski
1958-1960
Peter Stobbe
1960-1961
A. Frances Jacques
1961-1963
Brian Bryce Tannahill
1963-1964
Bernard Roland “Ben” Siemens
1964-1965
Ronald Peter Chay
1965-1966
Alfred Stephan Klassen
1966-1968
Eleanor Jean Cochrane
1968-?
?
?-1973
Alice Isabel McKnight
Period
Teachers
1898
Martha “Mattie” Cross (all grades)
1899
Martha “Mattie” Cross (all grades)
1900
Martha “Mattie” Cross (all grades, spring; junior grades, fall), James Alfred Laird (senior grades, fall), Robert Leslie (senior grades, fall)
1901
Martha “Mattie” Cross (junior grades), James Alfred Laird (senior grades)
1902
James Alfred Laird (senior grades), Edith Mills (junior grades, spring), Beatrice E. Stuart (junior grades, fall)
1903
James Alfred Laird (senior grades), Beatrice E. Stuart (junior grades, spring), ? (junior grades, fall)
1904
Bertha F. Emmons (junior grades), ? (senior grades)
1905
Laura M. Greenway (junior grades), Elbridge Doty Parker (senior grades)
1906
Laura M. Greenway (junior grades), Elbridge Doty Parker (senior grades)
1907
Elbridge Doty Parker (grades 4-8), Allie L. Wilson (grades 1-4)
1908
Winfred Elmore Marsh (grades 4-8, fall), Elbridge Doty Parker (grades 4-8, spring), Annie Penman (grades 1-4, fall), Allie L. Wilson (grades 1-4, spring)
1909
Laura A. Manz (grades 1-3, spring; grades 4-6, fall), Laurinda Mae Martin (grades 1-3, fall), ? (grades 4-6, spring), ? (senior grades)
1910
Laura A. Manz (grades 4-6), Laurinda Mae Martin (grades 1-3), George Cecil Speers (grades 7-10)
1911
A. J. McIntyre (grades 7-10), Laura A. Manz (grades 4-6, spring), Alice H. Potter (grades 4-6, fall), ? (grades 1-3)
1912
Spring only: Alice H. Potter (grades 4-6), W. J. Rose (grades 8-10), ? (grades 1-3)
1912-1913
Elsie MacGregor (grades 4-6, 1913), A. J. [C.? F.?] Matthias (grades 7-11), Alice H. Potter (grades 4-6, 1912), ? (grades 1-3)
1913-1914
Elsie MacGregor (grades 4-7), ? (grades 1-3, 8-11)
1914-1915
James Ogel Beckstead (grades 8-11), Elsie MacGregor (grades 4-7),? (grades 1-3)
1915-1916
George James Elliott (grades 8-11), Elsie MacGregor (grades 4-7), Grace E. Oke (grades 1-3)
1916-1917
Elsie MacGregor (grades 4-7), Grace E. Oke (grades 1-3), Wilfred Almon Rideout (grades 8-11, 1917), Alex Russell (grades 8-11, 1916)
1917-1918
Iva Angers (grades 1-3), S. Christie Atkinson (grades 8-11), Elsie MacGregor (grades 4-7)
1918-1919
S. Christie Atkinson (grades 8-11, 1918), Edith Ann Fingland (grades 8-11, 1919), Elsie MacGregor (grades 4-7), ? (grades 1-3)
1919-1920
Olive Evelyn Crookshanks (grades 8-11), Sadie E. Forbes (grades 1-3, 1920), Enid B. Steel (grades 1-3, 1919), ? (grades 4-7)
1920-1921
? (all grades)
1921-1922
Ida G.[J.?] Finnen (grades 5-7), Margaret L. Stoddart (grades 1-4), ? (senior grades)
1922-1923
? (all grades)
1923-1924
Jean L. Babb (grades 5-8), ? (grades 1-4, senior grades)
1924-1925
Jean L. Babb (grades 5-8), ? (grades 1-4, senior grades)
1925-1926
Jean L. Babb (grades 5-8), ? (grades 1-4, senior grades)
1926-1927
Laura M. Fisher (grades 5-8), ? (grades 1-4, senior grades)
1927-1928
Laura M. Fisher (grades 5-8), ? (grades 1-4, senior grades)
1928-1929
Annie Wilhelmina Campbell (grades 1-4), Laura M. Fisher (grades 5-8), George Boyer Poole (grades 9-11)
1929-1930
Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11, 1930), Ruth Mildred Bates (grades 5-8), Annie Wilhelmina Campbell (grades 1-4), Eleanor M. Pellisson? (grades 9-11, 1929)
1930-1931
Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11), Ruth Mildred Bates (grades 5-8), Mildred Camilla Smith (grades 1-4)
1931-1932
Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11), Ruth Mildred Bates (grades 5-8), Mildred Camilla Smith (grades 1-4)
1932-1933
Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11), Ruth Mildred Bates (grades 5-8), Mildred Camilla Smith (grades 1-4)
1933-1934
Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11), Ruth Mildred Bates (grades 5-8), Mildred Camilla Smith (grades 1-4)
1934-1935
Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11), Ruth Mildred Bates (grades 5-8), Mildred Camilla Smith (grades 1-4)
1935-1936
Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11), Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), E. P. Grierson (grades 5-8, 1935 substitute), Mildred Camilla Smith (grades 1-4)
1936-1937
Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11), Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Mildred Camilla Smith (grades 1-4)
1937-1938
Margaret G. Allison (grades 1-4), Allan Alexander Anderson (grades 9-11), Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Mildred Camilla Smith (grades 1-4, 1937)
1938-1939
Margaret G. Allison (grades 1-4), Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), ? (grades 9-11)
1939-1940
Margaret G. Allison (grades 1-4), Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Robert John Coates (grades 9-11)
1940-1941
Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Robert John Coates (grades 9-11), Frank Benbow Fox (grades 9-11, 1941), Shirley Marguerite Tod (grades 1-4)
1941-1942
Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Eunice Merle Fowler (grades 1-4, 1942), Jessie McDonald (grades 1-4, 1941), ? (grades 9-11)
1942-1943
Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Eunice Merle Fowler (grades 1-4, 1942), Jessie McDonald (grades 1-4, 1941), Nettie Louisa Ryan (grades 1-4, 1943), ? (grades 9-11)
1943-1944
Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Nora Edith Sankey (grades 9-11), Myra Inez Vig (grades 1-4)
1944-1945
Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Reta Marjorie MacDougall (grades 1-4), John S. Schellenberg (grades 9-11)
1945-1946
Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Reta Marjorie MacDougall (grades 1-4), John Franklin Morrison (grades 9-11)
1946-1947
Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Reta Marjorie MacDougall (grades 1-4), John Franklin Morrison (grades 9-11)
1947-1948
Kathleen Chapman (grades 5-8), Agnes Irene Snyder (grades 1-4), ? (grades 9-11)
1948-1949
Agnes Irene Snyder (grades 1-4), Dorothy Alice McShane (grades 5-8), ? (grades 9-11)
1949-1950
Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (grades 9-10), Ileen Ruth Lockhart (grades 5-8), Agnes Irene Snyder (grades 1-4)
1950-1951
Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (grades 9-11), Ethel Florence Bridgeman (grades 1-4, 1951), Doris Horosko (grades 1-4, 1950), Phyllis Margaret Lundgren (grades 5-8)
1951-1952
Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (grades 9-11), Bernice Joyce Flatt (grades 1-4), Phyllis Margaret Lundgren (grades 5-8)
1952-1953
Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (grades 9-11), Bernice Joyce Flatt (grades 1-4), Cora Margaret Smith Privat (grades 5-8)
1953-1954
Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (grades 9-11), Elizabeth Joyce Cairns (grades 1-4), Gladys Mary McKnight (grades 1-4, 1954), Cora Margaret Smith Privat (grades 5-8)
1954-1955
Robert Octavius Picken “Barney” Bolton (grades 9-11), Cora Margaret Smith Privat (grades 5-8), Dorothy Aileen Riddell (grades 1-4)
1955-1956
Douglas Gordon Pomeroy (grades 9-11), Dorothy Aileen Riddell (grades 1-4), Eva Beatrice May Dundas Hysop Smith (grades 5-8)
1956-1957
Gerald R. Brown (grades 5-8), J. B. Norrie (grades 9-11, 1956), Ralph Ernest Mayes (grades 9-11), Dorothy Aileen Riddell (grades 1-4)
1957-1958
Gerald R. Brown (grades 5-8), Alexander “Alex” Korzeniowski (grades 9-11), Dorothy Aileen Riddell (grades 1-4)
1958-1959
Helen I. Fast (grades 1-4), A. Frances Jacques (grades 5-8), Dorothy Aileen Riddell (grades 5-8, 1958 substitute), Peter Stobbe (grades 9-11)
1959-1960
Lila E. Garrett (grades 1-4), A. Frances Jacques (grades 5-8), Peter Stobbe (grades 9-11)
1960-1961
Patsy Karen “Pat” Coates (grades 1-4), A. Frances Jacques (grades 5-8)
1961-1962
Patsy Karen “Pat” Coates (grades 1-4), Brian Bryce Tannahill (grades 5-8)
1962-1963
Phyllis Vera Maloney (grades 1-4), Brian Bryce Tannahill (grades 5-8)
1963-1964
Phyllis Vera Maloney (grades 1-4), Bernard Roland “Ben” Siemens (grades 5-8)
1964-1965
Ronald Peter Chat (grades 5-8), Lyla Marlene Kenter (grades 1-4)
1965-1966
Lyla Marlene Kenter (grades 1-4), Alfred Stephan Klassen (grades 5-8)
1966-1967
Eleanor Jean Cochrane (grades 5-8), Lyla Marlene Kenter (grades 1-4)
1967-1968
Eleanor Jean Cochrane (grades 5-8), Alice Isabel McKnight (grades 1-4)
1968-1969
Alice Isabel McKnight (grades ?), ? (other grades)
1969-1970
Alice Isabel McKnight (grades ?), ? (other grades)
1970-1971
Alice Isabel McKnight (grades ?), ? (other grades)
1971-1972
Alice Isabel McKnight (grades ?), ? (other grades)
1972-1973
Joan Ferguson (junior grades), Alice Isabel McKnight (senior grades)
Among the other teachers of Ninga School were Ada Ram, Miss Shortreed, and Dorothy Teeter.
Ninga School, new and old (no date) by W. J. Parr
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 70.
Ninga School No. 485 (c1908)
Source: Education Department Report, 1908.
The former Ninga School building (circa 1986)
Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 1379.
The former Ninga School building (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
The former Ninga School building (August 2019)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.23019, W99.88936
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800-1950 by Robert G. Hill, Toronto.
Reflections: Turtle Mountain Municipality and Killarney, 1882-1982, pages 111-112.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Ninga School District No. 485 - Register of Attendance, GR4072, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Ninga School District No. 485 - Daily Registers, GR4072, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Bobbi Jo Panciera and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 17 November 2024
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