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The Garson School District was established in May 1906 and a two-storey stone schoolhouse operated in Garson, in what later became the Rural Municipality of Brokenhead. No vestige of the school remains at the site today.
Period
Principal
1926-1927
Mina Russell
1927-1930
Dorothy Ivy Mudge Jones (1904-1994)
1930-1932
Wilma M. Sutton
1932-1933
Edgar Burgess (1867-1954)
1933-1934
Albert Ewald (1883-1972)
1934-1936
Muriel James
1936-1940
Alvin Corbett Heaney (1911-1989)
1940-1941
Iris Ada Caroline Diamond (1905-1990)
1941-1944
Meta Marion Kelly (1906-1994)
1944-1946
Richard Hines
1946-1947
G. A. Eyjolfson
1947-1948
F. R. Kinley
1948-1949
James Andrew McKaughan (1877-1968)
1949-1951
Adam “Ed” Nazarko (1928-1993)
1951-1952
?
1952-1955
Florence Grace Chappell (1912-1967)
1955-1960
Melvin Stuart “Mel” Belluk (1929-2025)
1960-1961
Mrs. N. Zielke
Among the other teachers of Garson School were Edward Bathgate (circa 1919) and Catherine Slater (1940s).
Garson School (no date) by J. E. S. Dunlop
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 107.
Garson School (1940s) by Meta M. Kelly
Source: Jean AmmeterSite Coordinates (lat/long): N50.07465, W96.70639
denoted by symbol on the map above
Selkirk topographic map, 62I/2, Edition 2, Series A743 [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.
Obituary [Catherine Maria Thexton], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 March 2019.
We thank Nathan Kramer, Jean Ammeter, and Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 29 January 2025
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