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The North Polsen School District was established in February 1910 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW15-18-1E in the Rural Municipality of Armstrong. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its area became part of the Lakeshore School Division. The former school building was sold and only some concrete remnants remain at the site.
School Year
Teachers
1920-1921
J. Bruce Day (grades 2-7, 1921), Jan Geneja (grades 2-7, 1920), D. M. Hawryluk (grades 1-2, 1920), Norman D. Lysle Robb (grades 1-2, 1921)
1921-1922
J. Bruce Day (grades 3-7, 1921), A. M. Humeny (grades 1-2, 1922), Norman D. Lysle Robb (grades 1-2, 1921), M. M. Russin (grades 3-7, 1922)
1922-1923
S. H. Bilinsky (grades 1-6, 1923), D. Fyles (grades 1-2, 1923), N. A. George (grades 3-8, 1922 substitute), G. H. Grescoe (grades 3-8, 1923), M. B. Pearl Sparling (grades 3-8)
1923-1924
D. Fyles (grades 1-2), G. H. Grescoe (grades 3-6)
1924-1925
Gordon M. Stinson (grades 1-2), John M. Hawryluk (grades 3-6)
1925-1926
Mabel Nelson (grades 3-7), S. Spicer (grades 1-2)
1926-1927
H. Fjeldsted (grades 1-2, 1926), Grace Kasper (grades 3-8, 1927), M. McNevin (grades 3-8, 1927), Mabel Nelson (grades 3-8, 1926), Nellie Tosh (grades 1-2, 1927)
1927-1928
Ivy Hinchliffe (grades 1-3), Anne Saunders (grades 4-8)
1928-1929
Catherine J. Fisher (grades 1-3, 1928), Hermine Lucille Hinds (grades 1-3, 1929), Evangeline Swales Martin (grades 1-3, 1928), ? (senior grades)
1929-1930
Margaret Frances Jackson (grades 1-2, 1929; grades 1-2, 5-6, 1930), Edith May Rust (grades 4-5, 7-8, 1930)
1930-1931
Myrtle Gladys Brooks (grades 1-3), Edith May Rust (grades 3-8)
1931-1932
Myrtle Gladys Brooks (grades 1-3), Edith May Rust (grades 3-8)
1932-1933
Edith May Rust (grades 3-9), Kathleen Pearl Rust (grades 1-3)
1933-1934
Edith May Rust (grades 4-8), Kathleen Pearl Rust (grades 1-4)
1934-1935
Edith May Rust (grades 4-8), Meta Marion Kelly (grades 1-4)
1935-1936
Lillian F. Howe (grades 1-4), Meta Marion Kelly (grades 4-8)
1936-1937
Lillian F. Howe (grades 1-4), Meta Marion Kelly (grades 4-8)
1937-1938
Tom Chesley (grades 1-3), ? (grades 4-8)
Among the other teachers who worked at North Polsen School through the years were Bessie Slyzuk (1919), E. Rust, M. Brooks, M. Kelly, K. Rust, Anthony B. Romanov (1912), Michael Karalash (1914), W. J. Magwood (1914-1915), D. E. Dragan (1915), Claire M. Mallinsou (1916), Joseph A. Graban (1916-1917), N. J. Walcyk (1917), Bessie P. Slyziuk (1917-1918), A. R. Hawryluk (1919), John A. Mazur (1919-1920), Tom Chesley (1938-1943), Helen Katherine Romaniuk Klowak (1943-1944, 1955-1962), Lena Leochko (1944-1945), Mary Kolach (1945-1947), Margaret Martha Glowachuk (1947-1948), John Mueller (1948-1955), Vera Heykin Shupenia (1962-1964, 1964-1966), Peter J. Blahey (1964), and Harry Kosowan (1966-1967).
North Polsen School (1950s-1960s) by George O. Hinds
Source: George Hinds Archive
Former site of North Polsen School (June 2019)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.53699, W97.39053
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: South Polsen School No. 1523 (RM of Rockwood)
Gimli West topographic map, 62I/11 West, Edition 2 ASE, 1958, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
Rural Manitoba by George O. Hinds.
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.
The Interlake Beckoned: A History of Inwood and Surrounding Districts by Inwood History Book Committee, 1980. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.I59 Int]
Manitoba School Records Collection, Polsen School District #1523 - Daily Registers, GR11220, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 1 December 2023
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