Historic Sites of Manitoba: Clearwater School No. 106 (Clearwater, Municipality of Louise)

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The Clearwater School District was established formally in November 1880, and a school building was erected in the old village of Clearwater, on the east side of the creek, in what is now Municipality of Louise. The first teacher was William Galagher, earning a salary of $380 per year. In 1898, a two-classroom schoolhouse was built to the east of the present school building. That building, designed by architect Lloyd Hugh Finch and built in 1953, was closed as of 2001.

The building is now used for community activities. As rural schools from the surrounding countryside closed, their students came here: The Oaks School No. 412, Cypress School No. 175, Crystal River School No. 243, Mount Prospect School No. 249, and St. Lawrence School No. 646.

Principals

Period	Principal
1897-1900	Harry Harvey Greenway (1879-1906)
1900-1901	Thomas Dorwick Brown (1875-1931)
1901-1902	Washburn Van Dusen (1869-?)
1902-1903	Harry Harvey Greenway (1879-1906)
1903-1904	J. O. McGregor
1904-1905	Jessie J. McKenzie
1905-1906	William Bell
1906-1907	D. A. Grant
1907-1908	Howard A. Everts
1908-1909	R. M. Archer
1909-1910	Alfred James Struthers (1889-1979)
1910-1912	?
1912-1916	Andrew Moore (1890-1974)
1916-1918	Nellie Holden
1918-1920	Miss M. E. Trites
1920-1923	George Archibald Coulthard (1890-1964)
1923-1925	Alfred Jay Anderson (1901-1968)
1925-1926	Omar Ernest Campbell (1868-1936)
1926-1928	George Gilbert Perry (1892-1971)
1928-1929	Mary J. Perry
1929-1937	Robert MacLaren Keswick (1894-1938)
1937-1940	Lewis Emmett Lynd (1876-1961)
1940-1945	John Franklin Morrison (1910-1984)
1945-1948	Joseph A. McCracken (1911-1991)
1948-1950	Larry B. Clarke
1950-1952	Allan Joseph Sargeant (1918-1998)
1952-1955	Maurice Peter Kalushka (1918-2002)
1955-1956	Dorothy Ellen Swinburne Levine (c1905-1971)
1956-1957	Abe J. Friesen
1957-1958	Maurice Kohut (1926-2020)
1958-1965	Ernest Joseph Hafichuk (1928-2016)

Teachers

No information.

Photos & Coordinates

Clearwater School building, constructed in 1898 (no date) Source: Captured Memories: A Pictorial History of the R.M. of Louise by Pilot Mound Museum, 2000. [Copy at Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.L69 Cap] Clearwater School building, closed as of 2001, and the bell from its predecessor (October 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.13356, W99.03422 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Memorable Manitobans: Lloyd Hugh Finch (1904-1967)

Sources:

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

“Clearwater, Man”, Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map by Charles E. Goad, Toronto & Montreal, May 1910, Library and Archives Canada.

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.

Captured Memories: A Pictorial History of the R.M. of Louise by Pilot Mound Museum, 2000. [Copy at Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.L69 Cap]

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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