The Peguis School District was established in June 1907 and a one-room schoolhouse operated on Lot 86 in the Parish of St. Peter, in the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews. With growing student enrollment in the district, a second building was constructed in the southern part of the area, and named Margaret Hayworth School. The school closed in 1967 and the building was sold several times then eventually torn down.
Among the teachers who worked at Peguis School through the years were Mary I. Currie (1907-1908), Gwen Overton (1908), George Branigan (1909-1910), K. W. Smith (1909-1910), Frank A. Eagerly (1910-1912), Alex Cowan (1912-1920, 1921-1923), Anna Steele (1920-1921), Irene Spratt (1920-1921), H. G. Nordin (1923-1925), Ethel Neilson (1925-1926), M. Blight (1925-1927), H. Dalgren (1926-1927), Rose Shline (1927-1928), F. C. Saunders (1927-1928), B. Frank Privat (1928-1929), J. B. Peterkin (1929-1930),o D. Fyles (1930-1934), John E. Harriot (1934-1938), Miss Stone (1938-1939), I. Dawson (1939-1940), T. Oliver (1939-1940), Edna M. Allen (1939-1940), Gordon R. Fines (1940-1941), G. M. Woolsey (1941-1942), G. McKenzie (1941-1942), M. Barnett (1942-1944), Lorna Orvis (1944-1945), L. Reil (1944-1945), E. E. Reimer (1945-1946), Paul Sigurdson (1946-1947), V. M. McKay (1946-1947), M. D. Cathers (1947-1948), Miss Sawchuk (1948-1949), Anna McNally (1949-1950), J. Freison (1950-1951), Miss Boresky (1951-1952), Miss Brodie (1951-1952), Mrs. Wakeman (1951-1952), E. Evans (1952-1953), M. Milne (1952-1953), Miss E. McKay (1952-1953), P. G. Kehler (1952-1953), G. McKenzie (1953-1956), Mrs. Southern (1957), G. Wakeman (1957-1959), Miss A. Mizgiel (1959-1962), L. Dronzek (1962-1964), Leonard Dueck (1964-1966), and Ian Barron (1966-1967).
Peguis School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 115.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.21833, W96.83620
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Margaret Hayworth School No. 1426 (RM of St. Andrews)
Cummin’s Rural Directory Map for Manitoba published by the Cummins Map Company, 404 Chambers of Commerce, Winnipeg, 1923. [Copies held by Edward M. Ledohowski and Gordon Goldsborough]
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.
Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Gary 1880-1981 - R.M. of St. Andrews by the Municipality of St. Andrews, 1982.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 1 April 2021
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