The Progress School District was organized formally in October 1924 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NE2-24-3E in the Rural Municipality of Bifrost. In 1966, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Riverton Consolidated School District and later the Evergreen School Division.
Among the teachers at Progress School were Mary P. Gregor Boyko (Fall 1939 - Spring 1941), ? (Fall 1941 - Spring 1943), Stefie J. Yaremkewich (Fall 1943 - Spring 1944), ? (Fall 1944 - Spring 1945), Olive D. Lupyrypa (Fall 1945 - Spring 1946), Rose C. Polka (Fall 1946 - Spring 1948), Julia Wasylkowski (Fall 1948 - Spring 1949), Doris Boyko (Fall 1949 - Spring 1950), Mary Welchinski (Fall 1950 - Spring 1951), Stanley Dave Bonkowski (Fall 1951 - Spring 1952), Rosemarie Unger (Fall 1952 - Spring 1953), Michael Sadoway (Fall 1953 - Spring 1956), Arthur S. Oliynek (Fall 1956 - Spring 1957), Leslie Kornik (Fall 1957 - Spring 1958), Melita Armbrust (Fall 1958 - Spring 1959), Margaret Wishnowski (Fall 1959 - Spring 1961), Carmel Peter Korotash (Fall 1961 - Spring 1964), Peter Kroeker Friesen (Fall 1964 - Spring 1965), and Carol Louise Moffat (Fall 1965 - Spring 1966).
The original Progress School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 97.
The second Progress School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 97.
Site of Progress School (October 2015)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N51.05254, W97.06262
denoted by symbol on the map above
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Progress School District No. 2115, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Progress School District No. 2115 - Daily Registers, GR6124, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Progress School District No. 2115 - Minute Book, GR6189, Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Progress School District No. 2115 - Cash Book, GR6226, 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 Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 9 December 2023
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