The Shanawan School District was established formally in July 1908 and a one-room schoolhouse operated here, at NE27-7-1E, in the Rural Municipality of Macdonald.
Among the teachers of Shanawan School were Miss Stella Kelly (1909), Miss Kathleen Wooster, Ralph R. Mallock, Miss Troman, Miss Hazel Manwaring, Miss Florence Young, Miss Fannie O’Brien, Miss Aikenhead, Miss Christiansen, Miss Wilson, Miss Johnson, Miss Cavanaugh (1917), Miss Silver (1919), Miss O. Swanton (1919), Miss Loyden Johnston, Miss Winnifred Puttee, Miss Anna Horrocks, Miss Florence Kellett (1921), Miss Gertrude Mabley (1922), Miss Edith Campbell (1923), Miss Edith McLean (1923-1924), Miss Eunice Linton (1924-1926), Miss Daisy Rhind (1926-1927), Mrs. G. H. Thompson (1927-1928), Miss Nettie Babiak (1928-1930), Miss Alice Wheatland (1930-1931), Miss Margaret Junkin (1931-1935), Miss Adelene Manness (1935-1937), Miss Lydia Dyck (1937-1938), Anthony Pasieczka (1938-1940), Miss Irene McMahon (1940-1941), Miss Eleonore Neufeld (1941-1943), Miss Helen Derksen (1943-1944), Miss Freda Lang (1944-1945), and Miss Adina Goertzen (1949-1950).
The school closed in June 1950. Its district was dissolved in 1953 and the students went to Macdonald Consolidated School No. 2401. A sign, erected by the municipality in September 2014, commemorates the school.
Aerial photograph of the Shanawan School site in the centre of view (May 1950)
Source: Manitoba Air Photo Library, A12455-343.
Shanawan School (no date) by E. D. Parker
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 123.
Shanawan School commemorative sign (September 2014)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Shanawan School commemorative sign (August 2024)
Source: Rose KuzinaSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.59901, W97.36790
denoted by symbol on the map above
Down Memory Lane: A History of Domain Community, 1876-1967 by Domain Women's Institute, c1967, pages 103-107.
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.
Financial support for research reported on this page was provided by the Manitoba Heritage Grants Program (grant 12F-C101, 2012-2013).
We thank Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 19 January 2025
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