Historic Sites of Manitoba: Hartney School No. 312 (Airdrie Street, Hartney, Municipality of Grassland)

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The Hartney School District was established formally in 1884 in Hartney, in what is now the Municipality of Grassland. It became Hartney Consolidated School No. 2389 in July 1960 when it was consolidated with several rural schools in the surrounding area: Whitewater School No. 346, Swaffham School No. 347, Forbes School No. 966, and Cavell School No. 1840. It became part of the Souris Valley School Division in 1968.

A bell in front of the Hartney Town Hall was originally mounted in 1904 on the Hartney Public School building.

Principals

Period	Principal
1897-1898	Samuel Henry Forrest (1873-1963)
1898-1900	Clarence Church Stewart (1871-1950)
1900-1905	Benjamin Jones Hales (1868-1945)
1905-1906	H. Hamilton
1906-1907	David Williamson Yuill (1878-1970)
1907-1909	Henry Dana Hunting (1880-1953)
1909-1916	Albert Cook West (1880-1923)
1916-1918	Kenneth M. Lewis
1918-1919	G. A. Durnin
1919-1920	Kenneth Donald Bruce (1892-1968)
1920-1921	John H. Snyder (c1874-?)
1921-1922	Rufus Freeman Meadows (1879-1962)
1922-1927	Charles T. Cresswell (1872-1961)
1927-1929	John Osborn Wilson (1900-1972)
1929-1933	Peter S. Buhr
1933-1937	Thomas William Ebbern (1879-1970)
1937-1941	Richard “Dick” Moore (1908-1996)
1941-1943	Arthur Neilson (1908-1975)
1943-1944	?
1944-1947	Albert Lionel “Ab” Richardson (1910-1982)
1947-1948	Elizabeth Pettipher
1948-1950	John Wesley Alexander “Jack” Muirhead (1906-1996)
1950-1952	Alvin Samuel Miller (1914-2004)
1952-1954	Henry Lambert Williams (1890-1976)
1954-1956	T. Somotowka
1956-1957	Lawrence B. Clark
1957-1964	Roy E. White
1964-1966	Lloyd Nikkel
1966-1967	?
1967-1968	Frank Basiuk - elementary school

Principals (Hartney Collegiate)

Period	Principal
1966-1968	Roy E. White
1968-1970	R. J. Little
1970-1971	Malcolm Hughes
1971-1974	Ron E. Dilk
1974-1992	John Guthrie “Jack” Forsyth (1941-2011)

Teachers

Among the other teachers of Hartney School were Anna Mima McIntyre, Ethel Anna Sankey, William Ross “Bill” Shackel (1965-1967), and Wilma Slator MacMillan (1967-1968).

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of Hartney School (circa 1909) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2013-0085 Hartney School (circa 1911) Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspector Photos GR2664, C65. Hartney School (no date) by George Hunter Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 20. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.48043, W100.52078 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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

“Hartney, Man,” Western Canada Fire Underwriters’ Association map, June 1911, 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.

A Century of Living: Hartney, 1882-1982 by Hartney and District Historical Committee, 1982. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5649.H37 Cen]

We thank Nathan Kramer and Wilma MacMillan for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 5 September 2021

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