The Riga School District was established in August 1915 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at NW11-32-21W in the Rural Municipality of Mountain.
Among the teachers of Riga School were Israel B. Zahl (1918-1919), James Cunningham (1919-1920), Miss R. Baru (1920), Kenneth Rogers (1920-1921), Ada Love (1921-1922), Arnie Laird (1922-1923), Hugh Forbes (1923-1924), David E. Jackson (1924-1926), William A. Ellison (1926-1927), Hugh R. McCaw (1927-1928), Jacob Arbuckle (1928-1930), Nicholas Kotyk (1930-1932), Homer Eshoo (1932-1933), Michael Kotyluk (1933-1935), William Kolisnyk (1935-1936), Michael P. Fedorchuk (1936-1939), Dmetro W. Basarab (1939-1941, 1943-1945), Michael S. Shewchuk (1941-1942), Isadore Syrnick (1942-1943), Walter E. Yury (1945-1947), Alex Harapiak (1947-1948), Nestor Cwihun (1948-1949), Hellar Kuzyk (1949-1950), Orest Ziolkoski (1950-1951), Melvin Boszyko (1951-1952), Alex Fedirchuk (1952-1953), Nettie Kuchma (1953-1954), Anne Muchumanski (1954-1955), and Neil Marmach (1955-1956).
The school closed in 1956 and remaining students went to Pine River School. The building was sold at auction and moved away. In 1967, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Duck Mountain School Division.
Riga School and teacherage (no date) by J. S. Peach
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-3, page 38.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.73349, W100.33458
denoted by symbol on the map above
Garland West topographic map, 62N/9 West, Edition 1, Series A743 [Archives of Manitoba].
In Memory of our Pioneers: History of Garland and District, 1874-1985 by Garland History Book Committee, 1989, pages 160-164.
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.
Page revised: 27 April 2026
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