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The Wawanesa School District was established formally in March 1891 and a school building was erected in Wawanesa, in what is now the Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa. It was replaced by a two-storey brick structure in 1925. In January 1961, it became Wawanesa Consolidated School No. 2393, consolidating with several rural schools from the surrounding area: Sourisburg School No. 136, Northfield School No. 264, Hilton School No. 395, Tenterfield School No. 653, and Treesbank School No. 1004. The building is no longer on the site but a monument commemorates it.
A plaque commemorating students of the school who served and were killed during military service in the Second World War, presented by the Wawanesa Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, is displayed at the New Horizons Community Hall for Seniors in Wawanesa.
Period
Principal
1898-1901
George A. Scott
1901-1903
Hugh William Watson (1872-?)
1903-1904
W. G. Sandercock
1904-1907
Henry Gledhill “Harry” Heasman (1870-1955)
1907-1911
Frederick W. “Fred” Harrison (1880-?)
1911-1913
Joseph Cooper Iliffe (1866-1937)
1913-1917
William Dakin (1873-1922)
1917-1918
John H. Snyder (c1874-?)
1918-1919
Margaret Ker
1919-1920
Evelyn Storey
1920-1921
Walter Gard Jose (1878-1948)
1921-1922
Solomon Abraham (1872-1942)
1922-1923
J. E. Cooper
1923-1925
Andrew A. Merritt (1872-1977)
1925-1926
Harvey Richard Brown (1895-1962)
1926-1927
George Hindle
1927-1928
Lillian Margaret Vanstone “Lillie” Marshall (1905-1953)
1928-1929
Hazel Arretta Vandecar Foster (1897-1990)
1929-1930
George William Holmes (c1874-?)
1930-1932
Marguerite L. Godfrey
1932-1936
Bethel Harold Stinson (1903-1960)
1936-1940
Alexander Noble (1913-1971)
1940-1941
Allin John Pybus (1913-1991)
1941-1942
John Sinclair “Clair” Nelin (1911-1953)
1942-1948
Duncan Hector Stewart (1912-1999)
1948-1949
?
1949-1954
Garnet Milton Morrison (1915-1992)
1954-1955
D. S. Lockhart
1955-1958
Henry Lambert Williams (1890-1976)
1958-1959
J. D. Simpson
1959-1964
Robert James “Bob” Harris (1934-2019)
1964-1965
R. Dale
1965-1976
1976-1995
?
1995-1998
Nancy Eller
Period
Teachers
1907-1908
Frederick W. Harrison (senior grades), ?
1908-1909
Frederick W. Harrison (senior grades), Rena Parker, Leonora A. Pilling, Jessie J. Rankin
1909-1910
Frederick W. Harrison (senior grades), Rena Parker, Leonora A. Pilling, Jessie J. Rankin
1910-1911
Frederick W. Harrison (senior grades), Rena Parker, Leonora A. Pilling, Jessie J. Rankin
1911-1912
George R. Bourney?, Joseph Cooper Iliffe (senior grades), Isma Lyon, Alma Rutledge
1912-1913
Joseph Cooper Iliffe (senior grades), Humphrey Michell, Eva M. Morrow, Mary G. Rusnell, O. Alma Rutledge
1913-1914
William Dakin (senior grades), L. Kennedy, Marjorie Lawson (Spring), Edith A. Leadman, Mary G. Rusnell, Alma Rutledge (Fall)
1914-1915
William Dakin (senior grades), L. Kennedy, Marjorie Lawson, Edith A. Leadman, Mary G. Rusnell
Among the other teachers of Wawanesa School were Del Howell, Joseph W. Gordon (1897), and Keith A. Cosens.
Wawanesa School (no date) by A. J. Hatcher
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 106.
Wawanesa School commemorative monument (June 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Wawanesa School war service commemorative plaque (February 2020)
Source: Beth SmaleSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.59193, W99.67993
denoted by symbol on the map above
Name
Service
Rank
Birth Date
Death Date
Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps
Private
28 February 1917
26 August 1942
400 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Flying Officer
10 October 1916
20 January 1943
Charles Gordon Gorrie
[Wawanesa, Wawanesa Hospital, Wawanesa United]422 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Flying Officer
22 January 1924
20 November 1943
Royal Canadian Air Force
Pilot Officer
3 September 1917
24 August 1942
George Edward Stevenson
[Wawanesa, Wawanesa Hospital, Wawanesa United]431 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Warrant Officer Class II
16 August 1918
26 February 1944
Wilbert Crothers Wallace
[Wawanesa, Wawanesa Hospital, Wawanesa United]HMCS Avalon, Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Ordinary Seaman
18 November 1920
12 December 1942
“The Indian famine fund,” Winnipeg Tribune, 4 March 1897, page 4.
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 [Robert James Harris], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 February 2019.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer, Darryl Toews, Beth Smale, and Nancy Eller for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 October 2024
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