Historic Sites of Manitoba: Roseisle School No. 726 (Roseisle, RM of Dufferin)

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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.

Principals

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)

Teachers

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

Photos & Coordinates

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 Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.49922, W98.34245 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Municipally Designated Historic Sites

Sources:

“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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