Historic Sites of Manitoba: Glenella School No. 1006 (Glenella, Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne)

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When settlers began arriving in what is now the Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne in the early 1890s, schools were built to accommodate their children. As many as 27 schools existed at one time, but some closed as farms on marginal land were abandoned. The remaining ones were eventually consolidated into Glenella Municipal School No. 1006 in the village of Glenella. In 1966, the Glenella school district became part of the Turtle River School Division No. 32. A monument in Glenella, in the present-day Rural Municipality of Glenella-Lansdowne, commemorates the students and teachers who passed through local schools between 1892 and 1990. The bell on its top was donated by Christ the King Roman Catholic Church at Glenella.

Principals

Period	Principal
1915-1916	William Skidmore (c1885-?)
1916-1917	H. L. French
1917-1918	William R. Layer
1918-1922	?
1922-1926	P. A. Murphy
1926-1927	B. F. McLeod
1927-1928	William Hasselfield
1928-1930	Charles Lyon Maris (1902-1977)
1930-1934	Victor Wellington Jenkins (1884-?)
1934-1938	?
1938-1941	Mac Lane Turner (1915-1956)
1941-1947	Cecil Victor Gunn (1894-?)
1947-1948	N. Kelly
1948-1953	Douglas Alexander Thomson (c1919-1965)
1953-1954	Frank Veregin (1931-2001)
1954-1955	George W. Fellowes
1955-1958	Joseph R. “Joe” Minarik (1930-1995)
1958-1959	William Sul
1959-1960	J. Shewchuk
1960-1961	James M. “Jim” Richtik
1961-1963	N. Constantinesco
1963-1964	R. K. Bell
1964-1965	D. M. Leswick
1965-1968	A. M. Marciski
1968-1983	Harvey Lloyd Walker (1942-2010)
1983-1984	?
1984-1985	Marjorie Marciski

Teachers

Among the early teachers of Glenella School was Oscar Andrew Wurster (c1912).

School Year	Teachers
1978-1979	Marjorie Marciski, Joan McDonald, Sharon Sawchuk, Diane Sharpe, Irene Sulik
1979-1980	?
1980-1981	Betty Aitken, Ruth Emisch, Marjorie Marciski, Joan McDonald, Sharon Sawchuk, Irene Sulik
1981-1982	?
1982-1983	Betty Aitken, Carol Bulas, Marjorie Marciski, Joan McDonald, Sharon Sawchuk, Irene Sulik
1983-1984	?
1984-1985	Betty Aitken, Carol Bulas, Joan McDonald, Sharon Sawchuk, Irene Sulik, Harvey L. Walker

Photos & Coordinates

“Junior room” of Glenella Municipal School No. 1006, the second school at the site, built in 1915 (no date) by C. K. Rogers Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 39. The second Glenella School, now a seniors’ centre (May 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough “Senior room” of Glenella Municipal School No. 1006, the third school at the site, built in 1921 (no date) by C. K. Rogers Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 39. The third Glenella School building (circa 1990) Source: Historic Resources Branch, Public School Buildings Inventory, slide 443. The third Glenella School, built in 1921, now used for storage at N50.55371, W99.18943 (August 2013) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Glenella Schools commemorative monument (May 2012) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.55740, W99.19266 denoted by symbol on the map above

Glenella Area Schools

School	Period of Operation	Location(s)
Armstrong School	1916-1967	SW21-20-13W
Bellhampton School	1909-1957	SE9-20-12W
Budka School	1914-1955	SW34-19-13W
Camperdown School	1903-1955	NE15-18-14W
Cory School	1917-1967	NW22-15-12W
Davey School	1915-1926	NW25-19-11W
Elkwood School	1912-1959	NE24-20-11W
Falmouth School	1917-1962	NE34-18-11W
Ferguson School	1916-1936	SE19-19-11W
Germania School	1899-1917	SW34-18-12W
Glenallan School	1892-1967	SE30-18-14W & NE19-18-14W
Glenella Municipal School	1899-present	4 sites
Goodlands School	1900-1961	SE2-19-13W & SE10-19-13W
Grass Marsh School	1933-1966	SE15-18-11W
Grass River Colony School	1968-present	SE19-18-12W
Grassy River School	1902-1966	NE6-18-11W
Griffith School	1917-1959	SE20-20-12W
Herriot School	1917-1965	NW34-18-12W
Lake Mary School	1914-1935	SE30-20-11W
Lucania School	1904-1966	NW19-18-12W
Mafeking School	1902-1930	SE20-19-12W
Maitland School	1893-1967	SW2-18-12W
Molesworth School	1893-1967	NE30-17-13W & NE19-17-13W
Oakleaf School	1893-1967	NW32-17-14W
Reedy Creek School	1919-1936	21-20-11W
Rocklands School	1914-1941	SE6-20-11W
Tenby School	1896-1968	SE13-18-13W & NW26-17-13W

Sources:

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.

“Add one position in Turtle R.,” Dauphin Herald, 6 September 1978, page 2.

“Teachers begin year in Turtle River S.D.,” Dauphin Herald, 10 September 1980, page 24.

“Teachers ready in Turtle River,” Dauphin Herald, 1 September 1982, page 18.

“Teachers in Turtle River schools,” Dauphin Herald, 9 October 1984, page 30.

A Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Allan Drysdale.

Page revised: 4 February 2023

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