Historic Sites of Manitoba: Mariapolis School No. 830 (Mariapolis, Municipality of Lorne)

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The Mariapolis School District was formally established in 1894 and a modest, one-storey schoolhouse was erected in Mariapolis, in what is now the Municipality of Lorne, in 1899. It was replaced in 1912 by a two-storey, four-classroom brick school building.

Near the former school site is a monument (at N49.35972, W98.98693) commemorating the rural schools that, in 1959, were consolidated with Mariapolis School No. 830 to become Mariapolis Consolidated School No. 2372 in the Mountain School Division No. 28. They included Dry River School No. 399 (NW22-4-12W, 1885-1958), Pike Lake School No. 838 (SW17-5-12W, 1894-1950), Zephyr School No. 1384 (NW7-4-12W, 1906-1952), and St. Albert School No. 2164 (NE13-5-12W, 1926-1958).

Principals

Period

Principal

1952-1958

Sister Lucille T. Gendron

1958-1961

Sister St. Florence

1961-1962

Sister S. Honore

1962-1967

Sister M. Victorine Hutlett

1967-1969

?

1969-1970

Sister Gloria Havens

1970-1996

Maurice David Thevenot (1939-2025)

Teachers

School Year

Teachers

1967-1968

?

1968-1969

?

1969-1970

Shirley Lorraine Conrad (grades 1-2, October-June), Marie Rita Helena Desrochers (ungraded, elementary), Gaston Julien Hacoult (ungraded, special education), Sister Gloria Havens (grades 7-8), Kailash Chander Kapahi (grades 5-6), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Bertha Wood (grades 1-2, September-October)

1970-1971

Dorothy Boulet (grades 5-6), Shirley Lorraine Conrad (grades 5-6 substitute, pt Spring), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (grades 1-2), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1971-1972

Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (grades 1-3), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1972-1973

Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Mariette Denise Delorme (grades 1-2), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Beverley Ann Tardiff (French, 0.5), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1973-1974

Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Mariette Denise Delorme (grades 1-2), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Beverley Ann Tardiff (French, 0.5), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1974-1975

Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Victorine Cousin (French, 0.5, October-June), Mariette Denise Delorme (grades 1-2), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Beverley Ann Tardiff (French, 0.5, September-October), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1975-1976

Donna Louise Burnett (grades 1-2), Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1976-1977

Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Susan Joy Livingston (grades 1-2), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1977-1978

Doreen Margaret Barley (grades 1-2), Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1978-1979

Doreen Margaret Barley (grades 1-2), Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan Richmond (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1979-1980

Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan Richmond (grades 3-4), Nancy Ellen Sheffield (grades 1-2), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)

1980-1981

Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan Richmond (grades 3-5), Nancy Ellen Sheffield (grades 1-2), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 6-8, [Principal relief]), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 6-8)

Photos & Coordinates

The second Mariapolis School building, constructed in 1912, with a convent on the back added in 1929 (no date) by G. H. Robertson
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 8.

Mariapolis schools commemorative monument (October 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.35977, W98.98751
denoted by symbol on the map above

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.

“With the weeklies [Retiring teachers],” Manitoba Free Press, 9 July 1996, page 2.

Obituary [Maurice Thevenot], Winnipeg Free Press, 12 August 2025.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

We thank Leonard Thevenot for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 21 February 2026

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Period	Principal
1952-1958	Sister Lucille T. Gendron
1958-1961	Sister St. Florence
1961-1962	Sister S. Honore
1962-1967	Sister M. Victorine Hutlett
1967-1969	?
1969-1970	Sister Gloria Havens
1970-1996	Maurice David Thevenot (1939-2025)

School Year	Teachers
1967-1968	?
1968-1969	?
1969-1970	Shirley Lorraine Conrad (grades 1-2, October-June), Marie Rita Helena Desrochers (ungraded, elementary), Gaston Julien Hacoult (ungraded, special education), Sister Gloria Havens (grades 7-8), Kailash Chander Kapahi (grades 5-6), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Bertha Wood (grades 1-2, September-October)
1970-1971	Dorothy Boulet (grades 5-6), Shirley Lorraine Conrad (grades 5-6 substitute, pt Spring), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (grades 1-2), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1971-1972	Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (grades 1-3), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1972-1973	Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Mariette Denise Delorme (grades 1-2), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Beverley Ann Tardiff (French, 0.5), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1973-1974	Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Mariette Denise Delorme (grades 1-2), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Beverley Ann Tardiff (French, 0.5), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1974-1975	Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Victorine Cousin (French, 0.5, October-June), Mariette Denise Delorme (grades 1-2), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Beverley Ann Tardiff (French, 0.5, September-October), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1975-1976	Donna Louise Burnett (grades 1-2), Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1976-1977	Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Susan Joy Livingston (grades 1-2), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1977-1978	Doreen Margaret Barley (grades 1-2), Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1978-1979	Doreen Margaret Barley (grades 1-2), Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan Richmond (grades 3-4), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Ilene Jeannette Thevenot (resource, 1.0; at Mariapolis School, Swan Lake School, and St. Alphonse School), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1979-1980	Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan Richmond (grades 3-4), Nancy Ellen Sheffield (grades 1-2), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 5-6), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 7-8)
1980-1981	Shirley Lorraine Conrad (kindergarden), Doreen Elinor McLennan Richmond (grades 3-5), Nancy Ellen Sheffield (grades 1-2), Daphne Althea Stevenson (grades 6-8, [Principal relief]), Maurice David Thevenot (grades 6-8)