Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hamiota School No. 692 (Hamiota, Municipality of Hamiota)

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The Hamiota School District was formally established in April 1892 and a school building was erected that year on the southeast corner of the farm of James Stewart in the Rural Municipality of Hamiota. In 1899, it was replaced by a two-classroom brick structure with a basement in Hamiota. The original school building was moved into the village and used as a private residence, later occupied by Mayor E. P. Venables. In 1908, two more classrooms were added to its southeast side, on a design by Winnipeg architect S. Frank Peters. The school was one of the first in Manitoba to participate in the consolidation movement when, in June 1912, it joined to Kerr School No. 220 and Chumah School No. 401 to form Hamiota Consolidated School No. 692. A second addition to the school, on the north side, was made in 1914. By the 1950s, it had four classrooms on each of two storeys. It was demolished in 1957 and replaced by the present structure nearby.

Principals

Period	Principal
1902-1907	Stephen Windsor
1907-1913	Washburn Van Dusen (1869-?)
1913-1914	Thomas Addison Neelin (1882-1970)
1914-1915	Sarah Ann Sproat (1885-1976)
1915-1919	Charles T. Cresswell (1872-1961)
1919-1921	William Edgar Rogers (1889-1979)
1921-1925	Johann Gestur Johannsson (1886-1978)
1925-1927	Harold Ludlow Albright (1888-1955)
1927-1950	George Henry Ruttan (1880-1960)
1950-1951	Sidney George Denham (1909-1989)
1951-1954	Joseph William Butcher (1906-1997)
1954-1956	John Chalaturnyk (1915-2001)
1956-1963	Frank Lorne McKinnon (1934-2015)
1963-1973	A. William Robertson

Principals (Hamiota Collegiate)

Period	Principal
1988-?	Allan Robertson

Vice-Principals (Hamiota Collegiate)

Period	Vice-Principal
1988-?	Dick Prawdzik Carol Smith

Teachers

School Year	Teachers
1892-1893	William Edgar Pye
?-?	Dr. J. H. Fraser
?-1906	?
1906-1907	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Miss Ada Venables
1907-1908	Miss F. M. Cochrane, ?
1908-1909	Miss F. M. Cochrane, ?
1909-1910	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1910-1911	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1911-1912	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1912-1913	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1913-1914	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1914-1915	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1915-1916	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1916-1917	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1917-1918	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1918-1919	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Miss G. Houck, Sarah Ann Sproat, ?
1919-1920	Miss F. M. Cochrane, Elsie Graham, Miss Gladys Houck, J. McFarland, L. Ripley, Sarah Ann Sproat
1920-1921	Lillian Helen Arnold, G. Atkens, E. Rita Hawthorne, E. Pearl Latimer, Flossie R. Lind, Margaret McClumb, Mary A. McConnell, Vera P. McKenzie
1921-1922	M. E. Andrew, Lillian Helen Arnold, Laura Hainstock, Ada Pauline Herkes, Mabel Muldoon, Jessie Rogers, Lois Spooner
1922-1923	Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1923-1924	Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1924-1925	Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1925-1926	Lillian Helen Arnold, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1926-1927	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Ada Pauline Herkes, ?
1927-1928	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1928-1929	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1929-1930	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1930-1931	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1931-1932	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1932-1933	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1933-1934	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1934-1935	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1935-1936	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1936-1937	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1937-1938	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1938-1939	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1939-1940	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1940-1941	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1941-1942	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1942-1943	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1943-1944	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1944-1945	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1945-1946	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1946-1947	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1947-1948	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1948-1949	Douglas Bridge, Miss J. B. Cummings, Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss N. Fraser, Miss M. E. Jones, Miss A. Lavery, Miss O. Smith
1949-1950	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1950-1951	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1951-1952	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1952-1953	Mrs. Gladys Fraser (grades 3 and 4), Mrs. A. Giesbrecht (collegiate), Mrs. J. Johnston (collegiate), Miss V. Jones (grades 2 and 3), Miss J. Leifer (grade 1), Miss E. Morton (grades 5 and 6), Miss V. Motherall (grades 7 and 8)
1953-1954	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, Miss A. Lavery, ?
1954-1955	Mrs. Gladys Fraser, ?
1955-1956	?
1956-1957	?
1957-1958	?
1958-1959	?
1959-1960	?
1960-1961	?
1961-1962	Mrs. Louise Baillie, Miss Terry Fulton, Mrs. Agnes Pateman, Mrs. Doris Rampling, Mr. P. I. Robinson

Among the other teachers of Hamiota School were Lillian Lawson, Bert Reid, L. Norris, A. C. Courtney, J. E. Simmon, H. A. Garland, K. M. Lewis, E. Cowan, K. Cameron, L. Ripley, J. N. McFarland, B. Coates, C. Q. Atkins, E. Graham, E. P. Latimer, V. P. McKenzie, R. Hawthorne, F. A. Lind, M. A. McConnell, M. McClumb, M. E. Andrew, M. Muldoon, L. Arnold, L. Hainstock, J. A. Rogers, M. Mair, A. L. Loundry, A. Mellar, F. Wilson, E. Hawthorne, Miss M. E. Usher, L. Nicol, M. E. Geddes, E. M. Burkholder, Beatrice Alice Hume, Rose Jane Vasey (wife of Frederick James Westcott), J. H. Woodhill, O. M. Horn, E. Steele, L. Hodges, K. Condell, T. Moloney, E. J. Mollerd, F. Turner, N. M. Molson, Weston Sweet, L. Hodges, E. E. Nelson, J. M. Howlett, I. Wilkinson, R. J. Fraser, L. A. Glinz, L. King, L. McDonald, O. M. Eby, J. M. Brown, K. Walley, D. B. Fraser, M. Lund, J. McCrindle, Russel H. Hayter, W. C. Campbell, R. Bundy, G. Pollard, A. Small, M. McCrindle, V. Howe, P. Haedisty, V. Murray, E. Brook, A. Dunn, V. Jeffrey, I. Birney, O. Smith, F. Francis, L. Kirk, N. Fraser, J. Cummings, L. Ellerington, D. Bridge, E. Jones, R. E. Rathwell, W. Bamford, E. J. Black, R. Stacey, A. C. Thompson, A. E. Lawson, Leonard H. Goldsborough, M. C. Brown, V. Jones, C. E. Morton, H. W. Savage, J. L. Hamilton, J. E. Leifer, V. A. Motherall, L. Giesbrecht, S. I. Coulter, M. Hazelwood, A. K. Butcher, H. E. Irwin, G. Scott, and Miss Mary Babuik.

Photos & Coordinates

The four-classroom Hamiota School before its expansion (circa 1912) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2017-0012 The eight-classroom Hamiota School (no date) by G. W. Bartlett Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 109. Hamiota School (May 2021) Source: Rose Kuzina Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.18246, W100.59877 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

“Wanted, contracts,” Manitoba Free Press, 10 June 1908, page 2.

“Hamiota, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, 1916, Archives of Manitoba.

“Teachers at the convention,” Brandon Sun, 15 October 1920, page 6.

1921 Canada census, Ancestry.

The History of Hamiota by the Hamiota Women’s Institute, circa 1949.

A History of Hamiota Village and Municipalty by Hamiota Women’s Institute, 1953.

“Council reports,” Birtle Eyewitness, 3 October 1961, page 10.

“Current comments,” Hamiota Echo, 18 April 1962, page 2.

“Current comments,” Hamiota Echo, 29 June 1966, page 2.

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 [Rose Jane Westcott], Winnipeg Free Press, 20 April 1985, page 31.

“Trustees conduct regular meeting,” Hamiota Echo, 13 September 1988, page 7.

We thank Len Goldsborough, Nathan Kramer, and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 9 January 2023

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