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The Rosamond School District was established formally in May 1905 and the first schoolhouse in McCreary had a single classroom. In 1917, a larger school building was constructed at the site and the original one was moved elsewhere to be used as a movie house and hardware store before being dismantled. The new two-storey Rosamond building had two classrooms on its main floor, with cloakrooms and an assembly area. There were two classrooms on the second floor and a small laboratory. In 1936, it became McCreary Municipal School No. 1348. A new four-classroom elementary school was constructed beside it in 1952 and both structures were used until being closed in 1979, although senior students had moved out in 1959 when a five-classroom collegiate was built at another site. The two buildings were demolished by 1983. The old school bell (restored in 1987) tops a stone monument that was unveiled at the original site on 31 July 1994, along with a plaque listing other rural schools that operated in the McCreary region:
Principals
Teachers
Among the early teachers of McCreary School were Fred Palmatier, Roy Watson, F. M. Thompson, and Marie Louise Trottier.
School Year |
Teachers |
1906-1907 |
Miss Clara Love |
1907-1917 |
? |
1917-1923 |
Miss Campbell, Mr. C. J. Gillespie, Mr. Mulligan, Miss Sarah P. Strong |
1920s |
J. M. McDonald, J. M. Riddell |
1927-1936 |
I. H. Beggs, Miss R. Betts, M. Delmage, J. F. Ennis, B. Gorby, K. O'Neill, C. Shewfelt, E. Steen, M. Steen, E. Tedford, Etheldreda Tucker |
1938-1939 |
Irene Bell, Violet Edwards, J. F. Ennis, Elizabeth Telford |
1940s |
Miss Bourbonnais, L. Brister, Miss Brock, J. Bryer, M. Collins, V. Copeland, J. Dale, J. Dickie, V. Edwards, Dreda Ennis, J. F. Ennis, Anna Fox, D. Hartley, Miss Little, Michael “Mike” Posmituck, E. Shepherd, Anne Sims, B. Tedford, E. Thompson |
1947-1956 |
Lois Blair, Olga Code, M. Collins (grade 3), Joyce Cook, A. Delveaux, E. English, M. Galanchuk, M. Getz, T. Hall, J. Henderson, A. Hendy, N. Houston, M. Hykaway, E. Jackson, Marj. Johnson, H. Kliman, M. Lloyd, E. Lysack, R. Mooney, M. Morton, O. Muloin, Juliet Noiseux, Leona Poole, Michael “Mike” Posmituck, S. Rehaluk, E. Rinn, V. Roy, B. Soucy, L. Sumner, M. Thierry, M. Thompson, Annette Turko, I. Wilson, J. O. Wilson |
1957-1966 |
E. (Shura) Armstrong, F. Armstrong, J. Buchanan, H. (Bishop) Bunka, Olga Code, E. Dunning, Dreda Ennis, R. Hoehn, H. Magnusson, P. (McGorman) Mulligan, Leona (Poole) Murphy, M. Spurway, R. Virtue |
1967-1976 |
Elizabeth Armstrong, Lois Arthur, H. Bunka, B. Chorneyko, G. Christie, Olga Code, E. Dunning, E. M. (Dreda) Ennis, M. Hanau, G. Haverstick, I. Jarko, J. Lindsay, R. Lofgren, S. Majury, V. Marciski, M. Mellquist, L. Oke, L. Paterson, J. Perchaluk, S. Savard, R. Slade, B. Smith, L. Sodomlak, C. Spewak, C. Stewart, L. Stewart, E. (Cantin) Tardiff, M. Totte |
1976-1979 |
Elizabeth Armstrong, Lois Arthur, Floyd Clark, Olga Code, Gloria Haverstick, David Katsma, Viola Marciski, Linda Paterson, M. Totte |
Photos & Coordinates
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: McCreary Collegiate / McCreary School (Third Avenue, McCreary, Municipality of McCreary)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: McCreery School No. 797 (Municipality of Norfolk-Treherne)
Sources:
“The local round,” Dauphin Herald, 20 October 1938, page 9.
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.
McCreary: Milestones and Memories by McCreary History Book Committee, 1987, pages 139-147.
Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques and Manitoba Community Commemorative Plaques, Fiscal Year 1994-1995, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Culture, Heritage and Citizenship, page 33.
We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 August 2022
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