Historic Sites of Manitoba: River Ranch School No. 1361 (Municipality of Emerson-Franklin)

The River Ranch School District was organized formally in March 1906 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW25-3-5-E in the Rural Municipality of Franklin. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Boundary School Division.

Among the teachers of River Ranch School were Florence McBain (1909), C. E. Younghusband (1909), Peter Humeniuk (1915-1916), Harry Weinberg (1920-1921), W. J. Masciuck (1921-1922), J. W. Meloski (1922-1923), William Tanchak (1923 and night school), John P. Tanchak (1924-1925 and night school; 1928-1931), Theodore “Theo” Evonchuk (1925-1926 and night school), Nicholas Andrusko (1926), Vladimir E. Perich (1927), Michael Doroschuk (1927-1928), Mary Nazeravitch (1932-1933), Effie Koroluk (1933-1934), Kenneth Oatway “Ken” MacKenzie (1934-1935), Helen Mary Tanchak (1935-1937), Elmer Atkinson Preston (1938-1939), Manuel Peter Tanchak (1939-1941), Mary P. Paley (1941-1942), Olga Salamandyk (1942-1943, 1947-1949), Margaret Guenther (1943-1944), Agnes Margaret Braun (1944-1945), William Kowalchuk (1945-1946), Meroslaw Lakusta (1946-1947), Nicholas Kowal (1949), Kathleen Manchulenko (1949-1950), Peter Chyzyk (1950-1951), Helen Maksimichuk (1951-1952), Maurice Kohut (1952-1953), Stella Mandziuck Kohut (1953-1954, 1958-1959), Andre Forest (1955), William Stepaniuk (1955-1957), Elsie Buck (1957-1958), Doris Paley (1959-1960), Allan Robert Andruschak (1960-1961), George Joseph MacDonald (1961-1962), Eleanor Karalash (1961), Wasyl Sokolyk (1962-1963), Diane Shirley Bodnarchuk (1963-1964), Clara Anne Lambert (1964-1965), Ronald Mihaychuk (1965-1966), and Mary Anne Chubey (1966-1967).

River Ranch School (no date) by A. A. Herriot Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 104. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.23739, W96.80202 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

School District Formation Files [River Ranch School District No. 1361], GR1688, E0027, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, River Ranch School District No. 1361 Daily Registers, GR2088, 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: 1 February 2023

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