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The Patapun School District was established formally in July 1912 and a one-room schoolhouse operated on the bank of the Red River on Lot 212 in the Parish of St. Peters, in the Rural Municipality of St. Clements. In 1960, its catchment area was merged into the Happy Thought Consolidated School District No. 1452. The former school building was sold.
Among the teachers of Patapun School were Mary Louisa Kendall (1912-1913), Edith A. Fingland (1913-1914), R. H. Smith (1914), R. D. Askin (1915), Margaret Eaton (1915-1916), Margarel A. Dixon (1917-1918), Agnes R. Connelly (1918), Alfred Cook (1919-1922), William Tinnuf (1925), Lavina Williams (1925-1926), Edith Emma Irene Ablett (1926-1927), James Thomas Kulma (1927-1928), Thomas R. K. Tozer (1928-1930), Gwendoline Jessie Carter (1930-1934), Viola Melinda Grace Frost (1935-1936), Laura Mary Louise Randall (1936-1938), Jessie Dorothy Angus (1939-1940), Mabel Irene Fletcher (1940-1942), Elizabeth Gwendoline McKenzie (1943), Solvig Nelson (1943-1944), Marion M. Sawchuk (1944-1945), Stephanie Nychek (1945-1947), Stephanie Molitowsky (1947-1950), Evelyn Veronica Antonick (1951), Mary Jane Komodowski (1951-1952, 1953-1954), Stephie Stella Tarnowski (1952-1953), Mary Jane Levin (1954-1955), and Sophie Klim (1956-1960).
Patapun School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 7.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.06295, W96.96318
denoted by symbol on the map above
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.
East Side of the Red: 1884-1984 by St. Clements Historical Committee, pages 271-272.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 November 2024
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