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The Roseisle School District was established in November 1892 but a school was not built until two years later, on the northwest quarter of 21-6-7 west of the Principal Meridian, in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin, about a mile west of the present village of Roseisle. The school was named for the post office in the area. In 1901, the railway arrived and Roseisle began to be developed on its present site.
In July 1911, the school joined with Hyde Park School No. 916 and Leary School No. 1540 to form Roseisle Consolidated School. A new school building designed by Winnipeg architect E. D. Tuttle was erected in 1914, at a cost of about $6,000. It burned down in 1920 and, the next year, a new Tuttle-designed building replaced it at the same site, built at a cost of $22,000.
Roseisle School became part of Midland School Division in 1968. Due to declining student enrolment, it closed in June 1992. As of 2010, the building (a municipally designated historic site as of 1989) and site are privately owned and a “No Trespassing” sign is posted. A plaque nearby, unveiled in July 2003, commemorates the pioneers, community leaders, school trustees, teachers and students of Roseisle School.
Period
Principal
1945-1946
Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost Cox (1922-2023)
1946-1947
Elizabeth Stevenson (1907-1985)
1947-1949
Eva Bonkowski (c1920-2016)
1949-1952
Rudolph Verne Dankesreiter (1900-1952)
1952-1953
Chester MacMillan Fraser (1904-1975)
1953-1954
Leo Priebe Barkman (1925-2015)
1954-1956
Michael Rehaluk
1956-1957
Isadore A. Woronchuk
1957-1959
George Wesley Denstedt (1896-1979)
School Year
Teachers
1913-1914
Clara Cook, Martha Elbe
1914-1915
Sylvia Evelyn
1915-1916
Marion Crawford
1916-1917
Eva Davis
1917-1918
L. A. Lecunnier, Pearl Snider, Percy Snyder
1918-1919
L. Jean Kennedy
1919-1920
John T. Quinlan, Eva L. Simpson
1920-1921
O. Falconer, Eva L. Simpson
1921-1922
Violet Adams, Eva L. Simpson
1922-1923
Margaret Bradley, Clara Poyser, Annie A. Stewart
1923-1924
Bessie M. Harris, Jennie Keith, Clara Poyser
1924-1925
Jessie Logan, William Logan, Ruby Sanderson
1925-1926
M. A. Johnson, Georgina Swanton, Elizabeth Wheatley
1926-1927
Georgina Swanton, Elizabeth Wheatley
1927-1928
Georgina Swanton, Elizabeth Wheatley
1928-1929
Ruby Marian Douglas, Donalda Gofton
1929-1930
Emily Sumi, Ruth E. White
1930-1931
Emily Sumi, Ruth E. White
1931-1932
Emily Sumi, Ruth E. White
1932-1933
Matilda Burnett, Margaret Goodman
1933-1934
Matilda Burnett, Margaret Goodman
1934-1935
Charles N. Johnson, Barbara Miller
1935-1936
Charles N. Johnson, Barbara Miller
1936-1937
Margaret Gresham, Helen Morrison
1937-1938
Helen Morrison, Thelma Muir
1938-1939
Thelma Muir, Hildur Emily Sandberg
1939-1940
Thelma Muir, Hildur Emily Sandberg
1940-1941
Eva McTavish, Hildur Emily Sandberg
1941-1942
Grace Brown, Isabella Campbell
1942-1943
Isabella Campbell, Isabel Menzies
1943-1944
Isabella Campbell, Jean Simpson
1944-1945
Edith Bethel, Isabella Campbell, Annie Lawson
1945-1946
Sadie Sanderson (grades 4-8, ?-? [pt Spring]), Isabella Campbell (grades 1-3), Kathleen Chase (grades 4-8, August-December & January-?), Dorothy Ethelwyn Frost (grades 9-11; August-December; grades 9-10, January-June), Ruby G. K. Gibson (grades 4-8, ?-June)
1946-1947
Grace Freedy, Shirley Freedy
1947-1948
Jean Irvine, Margaret Ross
1948-1949
Jean Irvine, A. Maguire, Daisy Smith, Margaret Taylor
1949-1950
Mary Byskal, Elsie Clearwater, Ruth Heimann
1950-1951
Elsie Clearwater, Doris Mathers, Lena Neufeld
1951-1952
Barbara Beeso, Lena Dankesriter, G. Gaboury, Meroslaw Lakusta, Bernice Rzasa
1952-1953
Lena Dankesriter, Jean Guiboche, Bernice Rzasa
1953-1954
Audrey Currie, Jean Guiboche, Viola Smith
1954-1955
Audrey Currie, Rose Rehaluk, Viola Smith
1955-1956
Rose Rehaluk, Viola Smith
1956-1957
Melina Foster, Flora Johnson, Donald Leary
1957-1958
Myrtle Jopp, Dorothy Martin, Harry Alfred Martin
1958-1959
Myrtle Jopp, Laura Anne Loyns, Constance Jean “Connie” Worms
1959-1960
Myrtle Jopp, Laura Anne Loyns, Constance Jean “Connie” Worms
1960-1961
Emily Hoeppner, Myrtle Jopp, Laura Anne Loyns
1961-1962
Emily Hoeppner, Myrtle Jopp, Laura Anne Loyns
1962-1963
Emily Hoeppner, Myrtle Jopp, Laverna Mitchell
1963-1964
Eva Giesbrecht, Emily Hoeppner, Myrtle Jopp
1964-1965
Emily Hoeppner, Myrtle Jopp, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1965-1966
Doreen Ferris, Myrtle Jopp, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1966-1967
Doreen Ferris, Myrtle Jopp, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1967-1968
Myrtle Jopp, Bertha Winnifred Norberg, Judith Wadge
1968-1969
Myrtle Jopp, Bertha Winnifred Norberg, Judith Wadge
1969-1970
Alvina Harms, Myrtle Jopp, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1970-1971
Alvina Harms, Myrtle Jopp, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1971-1972
Lillian Hirst, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1972-1973
Lillian Hirst, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1973-1974
Lillian Hirst, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1974-1975
Lillian Hirst, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1975-1976
Lillian Hirst, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1976-1977
Lillian Hirst, Bertha Winnifred Norberg
1977-1978
Lillian Hirst, Donald Leary
1978-1979
Lillian Hirst, Donald Leary
1979-1980
Lillian Hirst, Donald Leary
1980-1981
Lillian Hirst, Donald Leary
1981-1982
Lillian Hirst, Donald Leary
1982-1983
Lillian Hirst, Donald Leary
1983-1984
Lillian Hirst, Eunice Knox, Donald Leary
1984-1985
Maureen Abbott, Mary A. Johnston
1985-1986
Maureen Abbott, Noreen Gray
1986-1987
Audrey Forster, Virginia Peters
1987-1988
Joan McKetiak, Ken Switzer
1988-1989
Joan McKetiak, Ken Switzer
1989-1990
Audrey Forster, Ken Switzer
1990-1991
Shelly Conger
1991-1992
Shelly Conger, Bill North
The original Roseisle School (circa 1914)
Source: Education Department Report, 1914, Manitoba Legislative Library.
The original Roseisle Consolidated School, built in 1914 but destroyed by fire in 1920.
Source: Education Department Report, 1914, Manitoba Legislative Library.
The third Roseisle School building (circa 1930)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Districts - Roseisle #726.
The third Roseisle School building (1968)
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Architectural Survey - Roseisle 4.
The former Roseisle School building (September 2010)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Rear view of the former Roseisle School building (August 2020)
Source: Rose Kuzina
Roseisle School commemorative monument (July 2019)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.49922, W98.34245
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites
“Tenders for building,” Manitoba Free Press, 23 August 1913, page 2.
“Cox – Frost,” Brandon Sun, 17 July 1948, page 6.
Roseisle School, Manitoba Municipal Heritage Site No. 32, Manitoba Historic Resources Branch.
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 Study of Public School Buildings in Manitoba by David Butterfield, Historic Resources Branch, Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage and Tourism, 1994, 230 pages.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Roseisle School: 1892-1992, A Century of Service to the Community, compiled by Ina Leary Bramadat, 2006.
Obituary [Bertha Winnifred Norberg], Winnipeg Free Press, 19 August 2017.
Obituary [Constance Jean Worms], Winnipeg Free Press, 25 August 2018.
Obituary [Bernice Rzasa], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 January 2023.
We thank Ina Bramadat, Randy Rostecki, Nathan Kramer, George Penner, and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 10 June 2023
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