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The Oak Creek School District was established formally in February 1883 and a schoolhouse operated at 9-7-15 West of the Principal Meridian in what is now the Rural Municipality of Glenboro-South Cypress. In May 1914, the district was consolidated into the Stockton Consolidated School District No. 1748.
Among the teachers of Oak Creek School were William R. Babington (1883), W. Livingstone (1884), John F. Fisher (Spring 1885), None (Fall 1885), James Scott (Spring 1886), ? (Fall 1886), Lena B. Freeman (Spring-Fall 1887), Fletcher S. Andrews (Spring 1888), Jessie Kinley (Fall 1888), Kate K. Freeman (Spring-Fall 1889), E. Fallie? (Spring 1890), A. G. Snyder (Fall 1890), Mary C. McNab (Spring 1891 - Fall 1893), Lizzie Tran? (Spring 1894 - Spring 1895), W. P. Clare (Fall 1895), Fred W. Dykes (Spring-Fall 1896 & Fall 1898 - Spring 1899), R. M. Dalway? (Spring-Fall 1897), William? J. Barker (Spring 1898), Ena Young (Fall 1899 - Fall 1901), records unavailable (Spring 1902 - Fall 1904), Florence F. Axford (Spring 1905, pt Fall 1905), F. Humphries (pt Fall 1905), John A. McDougall (Spring 1906 - Spring 1907), Edgar A. W. Sullivan (Fall 1907 - Spring 1909), S. Frederickson (Fall 1908), Ethel Rule? (Spring 1909), Rosie Cole (Fall 1909 - Spring 1910), Elizabeth Burns (Fall 1910 - Spring 1911), Addie S. Henry (Fall 1911), Myrtle Moon? (Spring 1913 - Spring 1913), Olive Gowanlock (Fall 1913), and Marjorie H. Forbes (Spring 1914).
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.56150, W99.43967
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Oak Creek School / Oakburn School No. 255 (RM of Yellowhead)
Board of Education registers (A 0050), GR7643, Archives of Manitoba.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Board of Education meeting minutes and office files (A 0052), GR1622, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Oak Creek School District No. 254, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
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.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 19 November 2022
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