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Ridgeville School No. 102 was formally established in October 1880, and a school house was built in 1885 about 1½ miles north of Ridgeville, in what is now the Municipality of Emerson-Franklin. In 1912, it was moved to this four-acre site in Ridgeville. Enlarged in 1920, it became a two-room school in 1930, and began offering instruction at the grade 11 level in 1933. During the school consolidation movement of the 1950s and 1960s, it joined Springbank School No. 104 and Emerado School No. 1237 to form Ridgeville Consolidated School No. 2359.
The consolidated school opened in late 1958 in a newly built wood-frame, four-room structure offering instruction in grades 1 to 12. In 1961, Overstone School No. 1106 joined the consolidated district and its school house was brought to the site, providing a fifth classroom. In April 1967, the school joined Boundary School Division No. 16. With declining enrollment in the early 1970s, it closed in June 1972, after which the building was used for community events through the mid-1970s. It was eventually sold at auction to a private owner.
The years had not been kind to the former Ridgeville Consolidated School building. At the time of a 2011 site visit, most of its windows were broken and the roof had collapsed in several places. The building was demolished by the municipality in late 2015. Only a concrete pad remains at the site.
Principals
Vice-Principals
Teachers
Period |
Teachers |
1908-1909 |
M. McLennan, John William Lawbe Doubleday |
1909-1910 |
John William Lawbe Doubleday |
1910-1911 |
? |
1911-1912 |
George William Burrell, S. Gertie Turner |
1912-1913 |
? |
1913-1914 |
Eleanor M. Fry |
1914-1915 |
? |
1915-1916 |
Hazel Stewart |
1916-1917 |
? |
1917-1918 |
? |
1918-1919 |
? |
1919-1920 |
M. Amy Duff |
1920-1921 |
Georgina E. McKay |
1921-1922 |
A. Helen Spear |
1922-1923 |
L. Alvina Killen |
1923-1924 |
Louise M. Gruenke |
1924-1925 |
H. S. Percival |
1925-1926 |
L. B. Moar, Alice M. Jack |
1926-1927 |
? |
1927-1928 |
J. Ritchie |
1928-1929 |
Cecilia Teresa Alke (grades 5-9), Pauline Johnson (grades 1-4) |
1929-1930 |
Hilda Harrison (grades 5-10), Rosa Mary Remus (grades 1-5) |
1930-1931 |
Emma Gruenke (grades 5-9), Rosa Mary Remus (grades 1-5) |
1931-1932 |
Emma Gruenke (grades 5-10), Rosa Mary Remus (grades 1-5) |
1932-1933 |
Annie McKinnon (grades 1-6), John Clayton Stewart (grades 7-11) |
1933-1934 |
Lois Mae Falloon (grades 7-11), Annie McKinnon (grades 1-6) |
1934-1935 |
Lois Mae Falloon (grades 7-11), Annie McKinnon (grades 1-6) |
1935-1936 |
Lois Mae Falloon (grades 7-11), Annie McKinnon (grades 1-6) |
1936-1937 |
Amelia Mary Lee (grades 1-6), Harry Sharpe (grades 7-11) |
1937-1938 |
Amelia Mary Lee (grades 1-6), Harry Sharpe (grades 7-11) |
1938-1939 |
Amelia Mary Lee (grades 1-6), Harry Sharpe (grades 7-11) |
1939-1940 |
M. Eyjolfson (grades 7-11, 1939), Frank Cecil Jacobs (grades 7-11), Amelia Mary Lee (grades 1-6) |
1940-1941 |
Frank Cecil Jacobs (grades 7-11), Amelia Mary Lee (grades 1-6) |
1941-1942 |
Olive Mildred McMahon (grades 7-11, 1941), Mary Jenkins Perry (grades 7-11, 1942), Myrtle Jean Russenel (grades 1-6) |
1942-1943 |
Emma Gruenke (grades 7-11), Katherine Hamm (grades 1-6) |
1943-1944 |
Marie-Therese Larose (grades 1-8), Emma Gruenke (grades 9-11) |
1944-1945 |
Alma Clara Schiebe (grades 1-8), Emma Ida Schiebe (grades 9-11) |
1945-1946 |
Elizabeth F. Green (grades 1-8, 1945), Alma Clara Schiebe (grades 9-11), Lillian Schultz (grades 1-8, 1946) |
1946-1947 |
Lucille Elise Desaulniers (grades 7-11), Josephine Melnychuk (grades 1-6) |
1947-1948 |
Josephine Melnychuk (grades 1-8), (grades 9-11 not available) |
1948-1949 |
John Senkiw (grades 1-8), (grades 9-11 not available) |
1949-1950 |
Ada Marjorie Balderstone (grades 7-11, 1949), Stanley Francis Pye (grades 7-11, 1950), John Senkiw (grades 1-6) |
1950-1951 |
Ethel D. Adam (grades 1-6, 1950), Elizabeth Gwendoline McKenzie (grades 1-6, 1950), Aline May Nadiger (grades 1-6, 1951), Michael Romaniuk (grades 7-11) |
1951-1952 |
Michael Romaniuk (grades 7-11), Shirley Geraldine Solar (grades 1-6) |
1952-1953 |
Iris Noreen Ginn (grades 7-11), Shirley Geraldine Solar (grades 1-6) |
1953-1954 |
Iris Noreen Ginn (grades 7-11), Shirley Geraldine Solar (grades 1-6) |
1954-1955 |
Elsie Mary Bodnarchuk (grades 1-6), Mary P. Kolodzinski Paley (grades 7-11) |
1955-1956 |
Roy Belding Pickell (grades 1-6), John William “Bill” Carroll (grades 7-11) |
1956-1957 |
M. Frances Jablonski (grades 1-6), Peter Yarmie (grades 7-11) |
1957-1958 |
Edward Chesko (grades 1-6), Peter Yarmie (grades 7-11) |
1958-1959 |
Gabriel Jean Girard (grades 9-10), Raymond Painchaud (grades 9-10, 1959), Grayce Irene Seward (grades 1-4), Irene Treichel (grades 5-8), Peter Yarmie (grades 11-12) |
1959-1960 |
Gabriel Jean Girard (grades 9-10), Pauline Nedohin (grades 5-8), Grayce Irene Seward (grades 1-4), Peter Yarmie (grades 11-12) |
1960-1961 |
Gabriel Jean Girard (grades 9-10), Pauline Nedohin (grades 5-8), Grayce Irene Seward (grades 1-4), Peter Yarmie (grades 11-12) |
1961-1962 |
Pauline Nedohin (grades 3-5), Mytro “Tony” Onysko (grades 9-10), Otto Rosner (grades 6-8), Grayce Irene Seward (grades 1-3), Peter Yarmie (grades 11-12) |
1962-1963 |
Pauline Nedohin (grades 3-5), Mytro “Tony” Onysko (grades 9-10), Otto Rosner (grades 6-8), Grayce Irene Seward (grades 1-3), Peter Yarmie (grades 11-12) |
1963-1964 |
Pauline Nedohin (grades 3-5), Mytro “Tony” Onysko (grades 9-10), Otto Rosner (grades 6-8), Grayce Irene Seward (grades 1-3), Peter Yarmie (grades 11-12) |
1964-1965 |
Pauline Nedohin (grades 3-5), Mytro “Tony” Onysko (grades 9-10), Otto Rosner (grades 6-8), Grayce Irene Seward (grades 1-3), Peter Yarmie (grades 11-12) |
1965-1966 |
Sheila Diane Lenton (grades 3-5), Edythe Merle Pickell (grades 9-10), Otto Rosner (grades 6-8), Grayce Irene Seward (grades 1-2), Peter Yarmie (grades 11-12) |
1966-1967 |
Gabriel Jean Girard (grades 9-10), Kathleen Ruth Kerda (grades 1-3), Sheila Diane Lenton (grades 4-6), Carole June Warkentin (grades 7-8) |
1967-1968 |
Kathleen Ruth Kerda (grades 1-2), Olga Margaret Ann Lobur (grades 3-4), Sheila Diane Lenton (grades 6-7), Wayne Frank Okapiec (grade 8), Gail Reesa Tolchinsky (grade 5) |
1968-1969 |
Andrew Alexiuk (grade 7), Kathleen Ruth Kerda (grades 1-3), Olga Margaret Ann Lobur (grade 6), Otto Rosner (grade 8), Gail Reesa Tolchinsky (grades 4-5) |
1969-1970 |
Andrew Alexiuk (grade 8), Sarah Jane Hunter (grades 1-2), Sheila Diane Lenton (grades 5-6), Otto Rosner (grade 7), Gail Reesa Tolchinsky (grades 3-4) |
1970-1971 |
Andrew Alexiuk (grades 5-6), Margaret Lee Chubaty (grades 1-2), Samuel Symons (grades 7-8), Gail Reesa Tolchinsky (grades 3-4) |
1971-1972 |
Andrew Alexiuk (grades 7-8), Margaret Lee Chubaty (grades 1-2), Bruce G. Clark (grades 5-6), Sheila Diane Lenton (grades 3-4) |
Photos & Coordinates

Ridgeville School (circa 1928)
Source: Judy Gleich

Ridgeville School (1967)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, File 173 Ridgeville.

Exterior of the former Ridgeville School building (May 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough

Interior of the former Ridgeville School building (May 2011)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.06653, W97.01501 denoted by symbol on the map above
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Sources:
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.
“700 attend old school reunion,” Steinbach Carillon, 12 July 1972, page 31.
“Boundary School Division No. 16, Notice of Tender,” Steinbach Carillon, 19 December 1973, page 13.
Arnaud Through the Years by Arnaud Historical Society, 1974. [Manitoba Legislative Library]
Manitoba School Records Collection, Ridgeville School District No. 102 Daily Registers, GR2088, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, Schools in Manitoba - Volume 2, Ridgeville School - File 173, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.
We thank Holly Thorne, Carol Wilkinson, Judy Gleich, and Brian Nedohin for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 24 May 2021
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