Historic Sites of Manitoba: Stony Mountain School No. 294 (Stony Mountain, RM of Rockwood)
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The Stony Mountain School District was organized in 1884 and a school operated in the village of Stony Mountain in the Rural Municipality of Rockwood. In 1967, it joined the Interlake School Division. The present school building stands on the site of the former school.
Principals
Period
Principal
1898-1899
William Jesse Grant (1869-1958)
1899-1901
Richard A. Fines (1871-1966)
1901-1903
Albert E. Young
1903-1904
Miss S. McPherson
1904-1906
Lyley E. Browne
1906-1908
Janet Blythe
1908-1910
Henry Edward Chaplin (1876-1935)
1910-1915
?
1915-1916
Henry Emerson Snyder (1891-1984)
1916-1917
Emma Laura Suttis (1881-1971)
1917-1918
J. de B. Saunderson
1918-1919
Harold G. Leeson
1919-1924
George Henry Blackwell (1864-1941)
1924-1927
Edward Arthur Bathgate [Batke] (1887-1961)
1927-1928
Anne Norrington
1928-1930
Willard Elwin Fife (1873-1944)
1930-1937
Martha Ellen Hamilton Lough (1902-1970)
1937-1943
John Sigfus Helgason (?-1978)
1943-1944
?
1944-1945
Chester MacMillan Fraser (1904-1975)
1945-1951
Austin Alfred Dale (1911-2003)
1951-1952
V. Gable
1952-1955
William John Prochuk (1909-1983)
1955-1956
Gerald Lionel Kuran (?-?)
1956-1957
Mrs. M. Esaruk
1957-1958
Guy A. Hamel
1958-1959
Jean Stuart Williamson (c1920-2015)
1959-1961
Michael John Makowski (1924-2002)
Teachers
Among the other teachers of Stony Mountain School was John Arthur Buchanan (Vice-Principal).
Photos & Coordinates
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.08547, W97.21688
denoted by symbol on the map above
Sources:
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.
We thank Ross Metcalfe and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 July 2019
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