Historic Sites of Manitoba: Stuartburn School No. 536 (Stuartburn, RM of Stuartburn)

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The Stuartburn School District was established in January 1888 and a school building operated in Stuartburn in what would become the Rural Municipality of Stuartburn. In 1967, it became part of the Boundary School Division.

Principals

Period	Principal
1929-1930	Effie McCaskill (1873-1938)
1930-1931	Irene Elizabeth Lees Redpath (1905-2003)
1931-1932	John Boes Quinn (1894-?)
1932-1936	Wolodimyr B. “Walter” Wachna (1909-1984)
1936-1937	Frances Mary Batten
1937-1938	Dorothy Marane Martinson
1938-1939	William Arthur Chadwick
1939-1941	Teresa Moloney (1899-1983)
1941-1943	Stanley Francis Pye (1908-1985)
1943-1945	Maurice I. Probzanski
1945-1946	Alexander J. “Alex” Smaluk (c1921-2016)
1946-1947	Boris Theodore Wachna
1947-1948	Maurice I. Probzanski
1948	Cecil Drummond “Cec” Muldrew (1923-2004)
1948-1949	Roman Dmytro Smook
1949-1950	Martha Korotash
1950-1952	Benny Zenon Orlins (?-1996)
1952-1954	William “Bill” Shydlowsky (?-1987)
1954-1956	Alexander John Shewchuk (1933-2015)
1956-1962	Dmytro “Dan” Tanchak (1907-1992)
1962-1963	Richard John Lapusniak
1963-1966	Roman Dmytro Smook
1966-1967	William Matichuk

Teachers

Among the early teachers of Stuartburn School were Montague Shore (1890, 1897), George H. Measham (1894-1895), R. S. Horne (1895-1896), G. A. Curran (1896, 1897), L. Millar (1896), S. Irvine Mott (1898), David Porteous (1899), George Willim Burrell (1900), Gertrude Coultier (1900), Mabel Smith (1901), G. N. Mayne (1901), Marie Yeo (1902, 1903), Fannie I. Lindsay (1903), E. K. Black (1904), Robena Taylor (1904), Beatrice McKenzie (1905), Florence M. Clare (1905), S.? E. Yeo (1906), Mary Sawchak (1923-1924), Miss A. Saunders (1928-1929), and Wasyl Kolodzinski.

Period	Teachers
1929-1930	Mary Evelyn Armstrong (grades 1-4), Effie McCaskill (grades 5-9), Margaret May Searfe (grades 1-4, 1930)
1930-1931	Hazel Lees (grades 1-4), Irene Elizabeth Lees (grades 4-10)
1931-1932	Pauline Braschuk (grades 1-4), John Boes Quinn (grades 5-10)
1932-1933	Dorothy Probzanski (grades 1-4, 1932), Kathleen Woods (grades 1-4), Walter B. Wachna (grades 5-10)
1933-1934	Kathleen Woods (grades 1-4), Walter B. Wachna (grades 5-10)
1934-1935	Frances Mary Batten (grades 1-4), Walter B. Wachna (grades 5-10)
1935-1936	Frances Mary Batten (grades 1-4), Walter B. Wachna (grades 5-10)
1936-1937	Frances Mary Batten (grades 5-10), Maurice I. Probzanski (grades 1-4)
1937-1938	Dorothy Marane Martinson (grades 7-11), Jennie Polischuk (grades 1-3), Maurice I. Probzanski (grades 4-6)
1938-1939	William Arthur Chadwick (grades 4-10), Effie Koroluk (grades 1-3)
1939-1940	Effie Koroluk (grades 1-3), Teresa Moloney (grades 7-10), Vera Anna Wachna (grades 3-6)
1940-1941	Effie Koroluk (grades 1-3), Teresa Moloney (grades 9-11), Vera Anna Wachna (grades 4-8)
1941-1942	Maurice I. Probzanski (grades 4-8), Olga Probzanski (grades 1-3), Stanley Francis Pye (grades 9-11)
1942-1943	Maurice I. Probzanski (grades 4-8), Olga Probzanski (grades 1-3), Stanley Francis Pye (grades 9-11)
1943-1944	Maurice I. Probzanski (grades 5-10), Olga Probzanski (grades 1-4)
1944-1945	Maurice I. Probzanski (grades 5-10), Olga Probzanski (grades 1-4)
1945-1946	Rose Rachlin (grades 1-4), Alexander J. “Alex” Smaluk (grades 5-9)
1946-1947	Jean Bereziuk (grades 1-4), Boris Theodore Wachna (grades 5-10)
1947-1948	Cecil Drummond “Cec” Muldrew (grades 5-9, 1948), Maurice I. Probzanski (grades 5-9), Olga Probzanski (grades 1-4)
1948-1949	Mary J. Rekunyk (grades 1-4), Roman Dmytro Smook (grades 5-9)
1949-1950	Martha Korotash (grades 5-9), Marie J. Melanson (grades 1-4, 1949), Anne Reimer (grades 1-4, 1950)
1950-1951	Helen Jerrelene Dueck (grades 1-3), Orest A. Fedak (grades 4-8, 1951), Jean Harbul (grades 4-8, 1950), Louis Haskell (grades 4-8, 1950), Benny Zenon Orlins (grades 9-11)
1951-1952	Olga E. Bauer (grades 1-3), Maureen Valerie Berringer (grades 4-8, 1952), Alec Kohut (grades 4-8, 1952), Benny Zenon Orlins (grades 9-11), Kathryn Unruh (grades 4-8)
1952-1953	Meroslaw Lakusta (grade 4-8), Millie Prochuk (grades 1-3), William “Bill” Shydlowsky (grades 9-11)
1953-1954	Millie Prochuk Chorney (grades 1-4), Meroslaw Lakusta (grade 5-8), William “Bill” Shydlowsky (grades 9-11)
1954-1955	Anne Reimer (grades 1-4), Alexander John Shewchuk (grades 9-11), Maurice Yarmie (grades 5-8)
1955-1956	Anne Reimer (grades 1-4), Alexander John Shewchuk (grades 9-11), Maurice Yarmie (grades 5-8)
1956-1957	Mrs. N. Podolsky (grades 1-4, 1956 substitute), Anne Reimer (grades 1-4), Dmytro “Dan” Tanchak (grades 9-11), Maurice Yarmie (grades 5-8)
1957-1958	Marjorie Onrpko (grades 5-8), Anne Reimer (grades 1-4, 1957), Andreas Sorgerfrie (grades 1-5, 1958), Dmytro “Dan” Tanchak (grades 9-11)
1958-1959	Anna Friesen (grades 1-4), Susanna Schroeder (grades 5-8), Dmytro “Dan” Tanchak (grades 9-11)
1959-1960	Jean Gray (grades 1-4), William Matichuk (grades 5-8), Dmytro “Dan” Tanchak (grades 9-11)
1960-1961	William Matichuk (grades 5-8), Mary Smook (grades 1-4), Dmytro “Dan” Tanchak (grades 9-11)
1961-1962	William Matichuk (grades 5-8), Mary Smook (grades 1-4), Dmytro “Dan” Tanchak (grades 9-11)
1962-1963	Richard John Lapusniak (grades 9-11), Suzanna Loeppky (grades 1-4), William Matichuk (grades 5-8)
1963-1964	William Matichuk (grades 5-8), Mary Smook (grades 1-4), Roman Dmytro Smook (grades 9-11)
1964-1965	William Matichuk (grades 5-8), Irene Anderson Schnell (grades 1-4), Roman Dmytro Smook (grades 9-11)
1965-1966	William Matichuk (grades 5-8), Irene Anderson Schnell (grades 1-4), Roman Dmytro Smook (grades 9-11)
1966-1967	William Matichuk (grades 5-8), Ann Marie Shewchuk (grades 1-4)

Photos & Coordinates

Stuartburn School (no date) by A. A. Herriot Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 86. The remodelled Stuartburn School (no date) by A. A. Herriot Source: Archives of Manitoba, School Inspectors Photographs, GR8461, A0233, C131-1, page 86. Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.13321, W96.77050 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

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.

School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Stuartburn School No. 536 Daily Registers, GR2088, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Stuartburn School No. 536 Half Yearly Attendance Reports, GR2088, Archives of Manitoba.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Nathan Kramer.

Page revised: 24 March 2022

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