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The Barrows Junction School District was established formally in August 1939 and a one-room schoolhouse located at SE 34-44-28 West of the Prime Meridian within the community of Barrows in Northern Manitoba. Construction took place in the late months of 1939 and was completed by early January 1940. The districts original catchment (Sections 34, 35, and 36 within Township 44 - Range 28 West) was expanded in January 1941, adding in additional land (Sections 25, 26, & 27) from the same Township, along with Sections 30 & 31 from Township 44 - Range 27 West. The district purchased a building measuring 14 feet by 24 feet for $500 from Adam Burdeny in 1952.
By autumn 1961, classroom overcrowding became too great, and an additional classroom space was sourced via rented quarters within the local Roman Catholic Church. That arrangement held until 1965 when a new two-room schoolhouse was commissioned, funded largely via an $18,500 debenture issued in 1964. Built on Church Street by Winnipegosis-based contractor Art Erickson during 1965, it replaced the old schoolhouse which was then sold to Mr. J. Bilow for $150 and removed from the school grounds in August of the same year. By the 1960s, a three-room teacherage was also located on-site.
Its designation in March 1959 as a remote school district, and thereby excluded from inclusion within any school division, was later withdrawn as, in April 1967, it joined the Frontier School Division. As of 2026, it remains an active school.
Period
Principal
1959-1962
Elizabeth Rempel
1962-1964
John Walter Warkentin
1964-1965
Eugene Maxymowich
1965-1970
?
1970-1981
Joseph Kustiak
Among the early teachers of Barrows Junction School were Basil Newton Thompson (Spring - Fall 1940), Gordon Spencer Ross (Spring 1941), Cyril Steve Reynolds (Fall 1941 - Spring 1943), Myrtle Ralston (circa August 1943, pt Fall 1947 [substitute], Fall 1950 - pt Spring 1951 [January-?], September-November 1958), Stella Dorothy Ryz (September 1943 - June 1944, Fall 1944 - Spring 1945), Ethel Mary de Jersey (Fall 1945 - Spring 1946, Fall 1947 - Spring 1950), Olesia Seniuk (Fall 1946 - Spring 1947), Mary Trochyn (pt Spring 1951 [?-June], Fall 1951 - Spring 1953), Sheila McEwen (Fall 1953), Thomas Dwernychuk (Spring 1954), Vera Blanche Kosinski (Fall 1954 - Spring 1957), Mary Bulycz (Fall 1957 - Spring 1958), Myrtle Moar (November 1958 - June 1959), and Elizabeth Loewen Rempel (Fall 1959 - Spring 1960).
Period
Teachers
1960-1961
Elizabeth Loewen Rempel (grades 1-8)
1961-1962
Irma Janzen (grades 1-3), Elizabeth Loewen Rempel (grades 4-8)
1962-1963
Jacob Warkentin (grades 1-3, February-June), John Walter Warkentin (grades 4-8), Selma Warkentin (grades 1-3, September-February)
1963-1964
Irma Janzen (grades 1-3, August-September), Ellen Olga Taylor (grades 1-3, September-June), John Walter Warkentin (grades 4-8)
1964-1965
Angela M. Elke (grades 1-3?, September-May), Eugene Maxymowich (grades 4-8?), Eleanor Salmond (grades 1-3?, May-June)
1965-1966
?
1966-1967
?
1967-1968
?
1968-1969
?
1969-1970
?
1970-1971
Florent Aime Beaudin (grade 9), Michelle Josephine Beaudin (grades 2-3), Mary Bulycz (nursery & kindergarten), Thelma Eugenie Hertz (grades 4-5), Joseph Kustiak (grades 7-8), Mary Louise Orr (grade 6), Evelyn P.[surname illegible] (grades 1-2)
1971-1972
Florent Aime Beaudin (grades 8-9), Michelle Josephine Beaudin (grades 1-2), Mary Bulycz (nursery & kindergarten), Mary Louise Orr (grades 2-3), Thelma Eugenie Hertz (grades 4-5), Joseph Kustiak (grades 6-7)
1972-1973
Florent Aime Beaudin (grades 7-9), Michelle Josephine Beaudin (grades 1-2), Mary Bulycz (nursery & kindergarten), Mary Louise Orr (grades 2-3), Thelma Eugenie Hertz (grades 3-4), Joseph Kustiak (grades 5-6)
1973-1974
Mary Bulycz (nursery & kindergarten), Sister Lumina Chartrand (grades 3-4), Joseph Kustiak (grades 5-6), Gerald J. Lafreniere (grades 7-9), D. Gladys Whitford (grades 1-2)
1974-1975
Doris G. Atkinson (grades 1-2), William Agard Bell (grade 9), Mary Bulycz (kindergarten), Sister Lumina Chartrand (grades 3-4), Jagdish Lal Grover (grades 7-8), Joseph Kustiak (grades 5-6)
1975-1976
Doris G. Atkinson (grade 1), William Agard Bell (grades 7-9), Mary Bulycz (kindergarten), Sister Lumina Chartrand (grades 4-5), David James Holland (grades 2-3), Joseph Kustiak (grade 6)
1976-1977
Doris G. Atkinson (grades 2-3), Mary Bulycz (kindergarten, 0.5?), Sister Lumina Chartrand (grades 4-5), Ronald Thomas Houston (grades 8-9), Joseph Kustiak (grades 6-7), Eileen Muriel Senkow (grade 1)
1977-1978
Doris G. Atkinson (grade 2), Mary Bulycz (kindergarten), Sister Lumina Chartrand (grades 3-4, August-October), Ronald Thomas Houston (grades 5-6), Joseph Kustiak (grades 7-8), Sister Aline Nick (grades 3-4, October-June), Joyce vander Schaaf (grade 1), Eileen Muriel Senkow (grade 1)
1978-1979
Doris G. Atkinson (grade 3), Mary Bulycz (kindergarten), Sister Lumina Chartrand (grades 6-8), Joseph Kustiak (grades 4-5), Joyce vander Schaaf (grades 1-2), Deborah T. Yaffe (grade 2)
1979-1980
Doris G. Atkinson (grade 3), Mary Bulycz (kindergarten), Sister Lumina Chartrand (grades 7-8), Ica? Theodore Forbes (grade 4), Joseph Kustiak (grades 5-6), Joyce vander Schaaf (grades 1-2)
1980-1981
Doris G. Atkinson (grades 2-3), Mary Bulycz (kindergarten), Sister Lumina Chartrand (grades 7-8), Ica? Theodore Forbes (grade 4), Joseph Kustiak (grades 5-6), Joyce vander Schaaf (grades 1-2)
Site Coordinates (lat/long): N52.83057, W101.44195
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Barrows School No. 1667 (Northern Manitoba)
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
School division and school district formation files (E 0027), Barrows Junction School No. 2296, GR1688, Archives of Manitoba.
Departmentally appointed school trustee files (E 0034), Barrows Junction School District No. 2296 - Miscellaneous, GR1629, Archives of Manitoba.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 2296 - Barrows Junction - Permanent, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.
Trustee records regarding geographically remote schools directly administered by Department (E 0166), File 2296 - Barrows Junction - Work File, GR1206, Archives of Manitoba.
School division half-yearly attendance reports (E 0757), Archives of Manitoba.
Orders-In-Council (EC 0003B), Order-in-Council #1052/64, GR0589, Archives of Manitoba.
“Notice of tender - Barrows Junction School District No. 2296,” Winnipeg Tribune, 26 September 1964, page 43.
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.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 3 April 2026
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