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Located in the Whiteshell Forest Reserve (now Whiteshell Provincial Park) at the townside of West Hawk Lake, West Hawk Lake School was founded as a Special School of the Manitoba Department of Education. Large-scale work on developing the resort townsite took place in the 1950s and a single-classroom school was established to serve school-age children of year-round families from the surrounding areas. The school is known to have operated for grades one through eight from Fall 1952 through Spring 1957.
The teachers at West Hawk Lake School were Alexandra Teresa Prokopsky Senkow (Fall 1952 - pt Spring 1953), Laura Wall (pt Spring 1953), Walter Matius? Lyall (Fall 1953 - Spring 1954), James Le Roy MacDougall (Fall 1954), William John Olson (Spring 1955), Hazel Frances Margaret Drew (Fall 1955), Hazel Frances King (Spring 1956), and Shirley Jean Senchuk (Fall 1956 - Spring 1957).
When Falcon Beach School opened, all students transferred to that new facility for classes in Fall 1957. The precise location and nature of the building(s) classes were held in remains as of yet not determined.
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.74607, W95.21685
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Falcon Beach School (Falcon Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park)
“McMunn,” Steinbach Carillon, 3 October 1952, page 13.
“Tea time ladies hold wind-up,” Springfield Leader, 28 April 1953, page 1.
“West Hawk Lake School at West Hawk Lake [...],” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 July 1957, page 26.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 1 July 2025
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