The Sapton School District was established in March 1895 and two, one-room schoolhouses operated at NE16-12-6E in the Rural Municipality of Springfield. In 1965, the district was dissolved and its catchment area became part of the Hazelridge Consolidated School District No. 1583 and later the Transcona-Springfield School Division.
Among the teachers who worked at Sapton School were Paulin Thadeus Andree (1913), Marie Lozinski (1933-1934, grades 1-4), Anne Kravetz (1939-1940, grades 1-4), S. L. Theriault (1948-1949, grades 1-8), Louis Pokrant (grades 1959-1962, grades 1-8), Walter C. Bilych (?-?), Vic Woyna (?-?), and Ed Nazarko (?-?).
A pair of commemorative signs remain at the former school site, one of them installed in 2020 by local resident Joe Nieckarz. The buried concrete foundations for the former school and teacherage are indicated by discolouration of grass over them. The site owners have found a discarded stove and several metalf rames from old school benches in the nearby woods.
Sapton School buildings (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 18.
Sapton School buildings and teacherage (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 18.
Sapton School commemorative signs (June 2019)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Sapton School commemorative sign (October 2024)
Source: Jean McManus
Outline of school's concrete foundation in the grass (October 2024)
Source: Jean McManusSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.01753, W96.70657
denoted by symbol on the map above
Selkirk topographic map, 62I/2, Edition 2, Series A743 [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.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Sapton School District No. 894 Daily Registers, GR9480, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer, Rose Kuzina, and Jean McManus for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 6 November 2024
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