The Melnice School District was established in June 1904 and a one-room schoolhouse operated at SW13-17-3E in the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews. The district was dissolved in 1967 and its catchment area became part of the Evergreen School Division. The school remained open for classes in grades 1 to 9 until the summer of 1967. Several years later, the building was moved to the St. Stephen’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church site where it served as a church hall until 1983. It was later destroyed by fire.
Among the teachers of Melnice School were Maria Yakemiszczak? (Fall 1906), W. W. Cahut (Spring 1907), D. Yakimiszczak? (Fall 1907 - Spring 1908), Nettie Yakimishchak (Fall 1908), Vladimir Karpec (Spring 1909), Boleslaw Hubarewicz? (Fall 1909), Jarosloues? M. Mysyk (Spring 1910), did not operate (Fall 1910), Peter Melnychuk (Spring 1911), N. M. Prena? (pt Fall 1911), M. P. Ostapowicz (pt Fall 1911 - Fall 1913), J. P. Hawryluk (Spring 1914), Nicholas Hunka (Fall 1914 - Spring 1916), John Russin (Fall 1916 - Spring 1919), did not operate (Fall 1919), Omer E. Malinskey (Spring 1920), Eugene Kozlowsky (Fall 1920), S. Kozak (January-February 1921), Stephen Harold Billinsky (March-June 1921 & Fall 1921 - Spring 1921), J. E. Sigurjonsson (Fall 1922), J. Chroptyk (Spring 1923), Emil Lucki? (Fall 1923), John Hryciuk (Spring 1924), Heinak (?-?), Michael John Kozier (Fall 1924 - Spring 1928), Theo F. Humeniuk (Fall 1928 - Spring 1930), Wiliam Yakimischuk (Fall 1930 - Spring 1933), Annie Eva Nedotafko (Fall 1933 - Spring 1936), Nicholas “Nick” Punak (Fall 1936 - Spring 1940 & September 1940 - April 1941), Henry Dietrich Dyck (April-June 1941), Michael Martin Russin (Fall 1941 - Spring 1946), Joseph H. Basarabowicz (Fall 1946 - Spring 1948), Peter Budzinsky (Fall 1948 - Spring 1950), Peter James Perehinczuk (Fall 1950 - Spring 1953), Mary Olive Ellen Lewis (Fall 1953 - Spring 1956), George Lysak (Fall 1956 - Spring 1957), William Jerowsky (Fall 1957 - Spring 1959), Edward “Ed” Firman (Fall 1959 - Spring 1961), Lawrence Edward Melnyk (Fall 1961 - Spring 1962), Robert Harold “Bob” Isfeld (Fall 1962 - Spring 1964), and Jean M. Chartrand (Fall 1964 - Spring 1967).
Melnice School (no date) by H. D. Cumming
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs,
GR8461, A0233, C131-2, page 93.Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.45492, W97.06694
denoted by symbol on the map above
Teulon East topographic map, 62I/6 East, Edition 1, 1956, Series A743 [UFS Reference Collection].
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.
Beyond the Gates of Lower Fort Garry 1880-1981: R.M. of St. Andrews by Municipality of St. Andrews, 1982. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.S22 Bey]
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba School Records Collection, Melnice School District No. 1295 - Daily Registers, GR6124, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Mel and Ken Kozier for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 10 February 2026
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