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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.
Period
Principal
1897-1898
Samuel Henry Forrest (1873-1963)
1898-1900
Clarence Church Stewart (1871-1950)
1900-1905
Benjamin Jones Hales (1868-1945)
1906
Wilfred John Fee (1881-1933)
1906-1907
Henry Hamilton
1907
David Williamson Yuill (1878-1970)
1908-1909
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
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).
Period
Teachers
1905
Viola Isabel Duff (Fall), Benjamin Jones Hales (senior grades), Blanche Hunter, Donald M. Monteith, Jennie Montgomery (Spring),
1906
Viola Isabel Duff, Wilfred John Fee (senior grades, Spring), Henry Hamilton (senior grades, Fall), Jamie A. Hallen (Fall), Blanche Hunter, Grace E. Joslyn, Donald M. Monteith (Spring), Mary Stuart (Fall)
1907
Jamie A. Hallen (Spring), Henry Hamilton (senior grades, Spring), Blanche Hunter, Grace E. Joslyn, Jean McCouchy, F. Mayers? (Fall), Jessie Rothwell (Fall), David Williamson Yuill (senior grades, Fall)
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)
No information.
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
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]
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Nathan Kramer and Wilma MacMillan for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 4 March 2024
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