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The Richard School District was established formally in June 1900 and a school operated in Somerset. In 1959, the district was consolidated with Bertram School No. 2097 and Harmer School No. 415 to form the Richard Consolidated School District No. 1092. Later, it became part of the Mountain School Division.
Period
Principal
1926-1930
Esther Agnes Bayer Sparling (1896-1984)
1930-1931
P. A. Frossais
1931-1934
Elzear Joseph Lavoie (1905-1938)
1934-1939
J. A. Dansereau
1939-1945
Henry Joseph Grenon (1881-1981)
1945-1947
Aline A. Hebert
1947-1949
Douglas Gordon Pomeroy (1911-1968)
1949-1952
Joseph Antonin “Tony” Duhamel (1919-2003)
1952-1955
Sister Mary Alexandre
1955-1961
Sister May Rose-Elaine
1961-1962
Helene Rousseau [Sister Pauline-Antoinette] (1927-2024)
School Year
Teachers
1916-1917
Miss Leger, N. M. McM?, Miss Roy
Among the other teachers of Richard School were Mansell Allan Davis (1906) and Renée-France Labossière.
Richard School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 56.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.41468, W98.66200
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Somerset School (775 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg)
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
School District Formation Files [Richard School District No. 1092], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.
“Aerial view of Somerset, 17 May 1944,” Charles J. Gingras collection #158, 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.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Joen Hadfield for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 November 2024
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