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The Swan Lake School District was organized formally in November 1884. It operated a school in Swan Lake in the Municipality of Lorne. In 1959, it became Swan Lake Consolidated School No. 345 and became part of the Mountain School Division in 1971.
Period
Principal
1905-1906
Fred C. Brooks
1906-1907
John W. Morrison
1907-1908
Herbert McIntosh (1888-1953)
1908-1910
H. P. Wyness
1910-1912
?
1912-1916
George William Burrell (1857-1941)
1916-1917
Thomas Patrick King (1873-1954)
1917-1919
Murray L. Waters
1919-1920
Claude Elmer Luther Hogarth Law (1881-1959)
1920-1923
?
1923-1924
Hazel Alexina McDonald Parkinson (1898-1981)
1924-1925
?
1925-1926
James Alvin Leslie
1926-1927
David Raymond “Ray” Falconer (1904-1989)
1927-1928
Harry Blair
1928-1930
John Herman Oddstad (1902-1983)
1930-1931
Kathleen Winder
1931-1936
Miss M. Laura Martin
1936-1938
Daniel McKenty Slater (1909-1975)
1938-1941
Norman Oliver Finnigan (1908-1988)
1941-1943
Alexander John Wilson (1913-1991)
1943-1946
Jean C. Arthur
1946-1949
Anne Sims Crichton (1910-1994)
1949-1955
Ronald Morris Bean (1922-2013)
1955-1959
Dennis L. Hennesay
1959-1960
R. Tainchaud
1960-1962
Sister M. Charles
1962-?
?
?-?
David Marno Watson (1945-2020)
Among the teachers of Swan Lake School were A. J. Manning and Peter L. Hyde.
Swan Lake School (circa 1907)
Source: Education Department Report, 1907, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Four-classroom Swan Lake School (circa 1926) by D. R. Falconer
Source: David Falconer
Swan Lake School (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 34.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.41092, W98.79275
denoted by symbol on the map above
“Swan Lake, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 12 October 1916, Archives of Manitoba.
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 Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 September 2021
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