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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Winnipegosis School No. 1020 (Winnipegosis, RM of Mossey River)

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Principals | Vice-Principals | Teachers | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

This location in the Village of Winnipegosis is the site for the former Winnipegosis School, and also site for the present-day school. The district was established formally in May 1899.

Principals

Period	Principal
?-?	David Bruce Huggins (1879-1955)
?-1909	William Alexander Shannon (1883-?)
1919-1920	Arthur Victor Balam Lamont (1887-1937)
1920-1921	Francis Kethel “Frank” Coleridge (1865-1944)
1921-1924	Jean M. McLaren
1924-1927	Willard Elwin Fife (1873-1944)
1927-1945	Henry Lambert Williams (1890-1976)
1945-1949	John Peter Packota (?-?)
1949-1956	Mrs. E. A. Howatson
1956-1957	Teresa Moloney (1899-1983)
1957-1959	Wesley Henry Sametz (1917-2009)
1959-1960	Gordon Alexander Henderson (1920-1993)
1960-1967	Harry W. Chornoboy
1967-1968	M. Andrusiak
1968-1970	J. Tkach
1970-1972	William “Bill” Welsh (1936-2017)
1972-1987	Lois Dawn Tomes Fredrickson (1928-2018)

Teachers

Among the teachers of Winnipegosis School were Rufus F. Meadows (1911), Isobel St. Clair Loutit, Margaret Creighton, Mary Borowski (1938), Pauline McArthur (1938), R. R. Cooper (1938), T. Lautit (1938), V. Madder (1938), J. Presunka (1938), D. Rasmussen (1938), U. Goodman (1938), J. P. Dyck (1938), W. J. Madder (?), and Henry T. Thiessen.

Photos & Coordinates

Winnipegosis School (circa 1915) Source: Education Department Report, 1915, Manitoba Legislative Library. Winnipegosis School, primary school building (no date) by J. S. Peach Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 41. Winnipegosis School, senior school building (no date) by J. S. Peach Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 41. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N51.64965, W99.92849 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.

“Winnipegosis, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 26 July 1919, Archives of Manitoba.

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: 20 July 2019

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