Historic Sites of Manitoba: Ste. Rose du Lac School No. 835 (Ste. Rose du Lac, Municipality of Ste. Rose)

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The Ste. Rose du Lac School District was organized formally in January 1895 and a school building was erected in Ste. Rose du Lac in what is now the Municipality of Ste. Rose. The present structure dates from September 1918. In 1960, it became Ste. Rose du Lac Consolidated School when it was consolidated with several rural schools from the surrounding vicinity: Ste. Amelie School No. 1222, St. Bernard School No. 2330, St. Patrick School No. 1485, and Verdun School No. 863. It joined the Turtle River School Division in 1967. Replaced by the present school in Ste. Rose du Lac, the structure is now used as a library.

Principals

Period	Principal
1920-1927	Rita M. Molloy
1927-1928	Sister Mary St. Laurence [Henrietta Molloy] (1888-1964)
1928-1929	Sister M. St. Robert
1929-1935	Sister Berthe Cadieux
1935-1937	Sister Regina Goehring
1937-1945	Sister M. St. Bernard
1945-1950	Eleanor Page (1890-1974)
1950-1955	Sister Mary St. Jude
1955-1956	Sister M. Madeleine
1956-1958	Sister M. St. Constantine
1958-1959	P. Prefontaine
1959-1961	Gilbert Van Humbeck
1961-1973	A. D. Normandeau
1973-1976	?
1976-2001	Kenneth “Raymond” Murray (1945-2004)

Vice-Principals

Period	Vice-Principal
1982-1985	Brian Bray

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1980-1981	Elementary: Evelyne Bosc, Valerie Bouchard, Odile Bray, Patty Hopfner, Alice Howatt, Yvette Labonte, Helen Mailman, Anna Pinette, Brenda Pink, Ruby Roe, Maurice Tetrault, Nick Wingie, Judith Wolff. Collegiate: Jeannine Archambault, Brian Bray, Robin Edwards, Albert Fontaine, John Goran, Herbert Hensen, James Johanneson, Barry Kutcher, Edward Lyseyko, John Malanik, Laurent Menec, John Molgat, Marcel Morin, Albert Normandeau, Paul Raffray, Hilda Restau, Valentine Sealy, Tim Shynkaruk, Gregory White
1981-1982	?
1982-1983	Elementary: Odile Archambault, Valerie Bouchard, Odile Bray, Cynthia Dyck, Alice Howatt, Shirley Klein, Helen Mailman, Angele Mignon, Anna Pinette, Brenda Pink, Ruby Roe, Nick Wingie, Judy Wolff. Collegiate: Jeannine Archambault, Roy Einarson, Albert Fontaine, John Goran, Herbert Henson, Donald Hooper, Jim Johanneson, Barry Kutcher, Ed Lyseyko, John Malanik, Laurent Menec, John Molgat, Marcel Morin, Albert Normandeau, Paul Raffray, Hilda Restau, Valentine Sealy, Tim Shynkaruk, Ivan Traill, Ruth Emisch (special education), Garry Smith (physical education)
1983-1984	?
1984-1985	Elementary: Odile Archambault, Valerie Bouchard, Odile Bray, Cynthia Dyck, Roy Einarson, Elizabeth Geisel, Alice Howatt, Shirley Klein, Helen Mailman, Angele Mignon, Ruby Roe, Nicolas Wingie, Judith Wolff. Collegiate: Jeannine Archambault, John Goran, Herbert Henson, Gary Hooper, James Johanneson, Barry Kutcher, Edward Lyseyko, Laurent Menec, Marcel Morin, Albert Normandeau, Paul Raffray, Hilda Restau, Ivan Traill, Kim Unrau

Among the other teachers of Ste. Rose du Lac School were Yolande Paquin, Sylvia Tucker (1938), Dora Tucker (1938), Grace Tucker (1938), Gertrude Smith (1938), Herbert D. Roehl (1974), and Ruth Emisch (1977-?).

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of Ste. Rose du Lac School (circa 1918) Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 8. The former Ste. Rose du Lac School building (May 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough The former Ste. Rose du Lac School building (April 2019) Source: George Penner The former Ste. Rose du Lac School building (August 2019) Source: Lorna Clark Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.05890, W99.52345 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

“The local round,” Dauphin Herald, 20 October 1938, page 9.

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

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.

Obituary [Reverend Mother Mary St. Laurence], Winnipeg Tribune, 6 July 1964.

“Teachers begin year in Turtle River S.D.,” Dauphin Herald, 10 September 1980, page 24.

“Teachers ready in Turtle River,” Dauphin Herald, 1 September 1982, page 18.

“Teachers in Turtle River schools,” Dauphin Herald, 9 October 1984, page 30.

Over the Rainbow: Memories of a Country School Teacher by Ruth Emisch, 1993.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

We thank Nathan Kramer, Lorna Clark, and George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 2 August 2023

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