Historic Sites of Manitoba: Cypress River Consolidated School No. 2357 (Cypress River, RM of Victoria)

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This school in Cypress River in the Rural Municipality of Victoria was designed by Winnipeg architectural firm of Pratt Lindgren and Associates and built in 1958 by contractor G. Peterson. It opened in January 1959 with elementary students transferring from their former school building nearby, which then became the local high school. This school was expanded with a gymnasium in 1976 and continued in operation until its closure in June 2009.

In 2011, the building was purchased for $100 by the Cypress River Resource Centre from the Prairie Spirit School Division, and for a period from 2012 to 2014 it was used by the Licensed Practical Nursing Program of Assiniboine Comunity College.

The building now houses the community library and hosts periodic activities and events.

Principals

Period	Principal
To December 1958	See Cypress River Consolidated School
1959-1966	Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (1905-1988)
1966-1967	Jessie Ellen Metcalf
1967-1968	Dennis Paul Kozak
1968-1970	Rosalie Sigurdson
1970-1971	Jessie Metcalf
1971-1972	John Giesbrecht
1972-1985	Phyllis Skoglund
1985-1988	Ken Storie
1988-2009	Bruce Craig

Teachers

Period	Teachers
Before 1958	See Cypress River Consolidated School
1958-1959	Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (grades 7-8), Dan W. Sawatsky (grades 5-6), Grace Mary Smith (grades 3-4), Esther Ruth Young (grades 1-2)
1959-1960	Edith May Davidson (grade 2, 1960), Lorette Mary Devos (grades 3-4), Edmae Leonie Hogue (grades 5-6), Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (grades 7-8), Mintie Barkman Reimer (grade 2, 1959), Esther Ruth Young (grade 1)
1960-1961	Lorette Mary Devos (grades 3-4), Florence Lillian Christiansen (grades 5-6), June Evelyn Hayward (grade 7), Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (grade 8), Esther Ruth Young (grades 1-2)
1961-1962	Florence Lillian Christiansen (grades 3-4), Jessie Ellen Metcalf (grades 5-6), Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (grade 8), Esther Ruth Young (grades 1-2)
1962-1963	Flora Mae Faaren (grades 3-4), Jessie Ellen Metcalf (grades 5-6), Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (grades 7-8), Haraldine Gudrun Webb (grades 1-2)
1963-1964	Flora Mae Faaren (grades 3-4), Margaret Fehr (grades 1-2), Jessie Ellen Metcalf (grades 5-6), Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (grades 7-8)
1964-1965	Margaret Fehr (grades 1-2), Jessie Ellen Metcalf (grades 5-6), Sandra Rae Oakes (grades 3-4), Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (grades 7-8)
1965-1966	Margaret Fehr Goodon (grades 1-2), Jessie Ellen Metcalf (grades 5-6), Sandra Rae Oakes (grades 3-4), Violet Adeline Dale Palmer (grades 7-8)
1966-1967	Margaret Wilson Hay (grades 1-2), Robert Byng Hay (grades 7-8), Jessie Ellen Metcalf (grades 5-6), Joan Morlyne Schenk (grades 3-4)
1967-1968	Evelyn Corinne Jones (grades 1-2), Dennis Paul Kozak (grades 7-8), Jessie Ellen Metcalf (grades 5-6), Joan Morlyne Schenk (grades 3-4)
1968-1969	Hansena Sigried Johnson (grade 7), Evelyn Corinne Jones (grades 1-2), Jessie Ellen Metcalf (grades 5-6), Joan Morlyne Schenk (grades 3-4), Rosalie Sigurdson (grades 7-8)
1969-1970	Sigried Johnson (grades 3-4), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Jessie Metcalf (grades 5-6), Rosalie Sigurdson (grades 7-8)
1970-1971	John Giesbrecht (grades 5-6), Sigried Johnson (grades 3-4), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2)
1971-1972	John Giesbrecht (grades 5-6), Sigried Johnson (grades 3-4), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Jessie Metcalf (resource), Alice Robinson (kindergarten)
1972-1973	Sigried Johnson (grades 3-4), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Vi Palmer, Helen Pearson (grades 3-4), Morlyne Schenk, Diane Sharp (kindergarten), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6), Fern Stevens
1973-1974	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Sigried Johnson (grades 3-4), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1974-1975	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Sigried Johnson (grades 3-4), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1975-1976	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Sigried Johnson (grades 3-4), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1976-1977	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Sigried Johnson (grades 3-4), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1977-1978	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6), ?
1978-1979	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6), ?
1979-1980	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Bruce Craig (grades 3-4), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1980-1981	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Bruce Craig (grades 3-4), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1981-1982	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Bruce Craig (grades 3-4), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1982-1983	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), ​Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Helen Roberts (grades 3-4), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1983-1984	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1984-1985	Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Donna Rawlings (kindergarten), ​Phyllis Skoglund (grades 5-6)
1985-1986	Rod Campbell (grades 3-4), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Donna Rawlings (kindergarten), Ken Storie (grades 5-6)
1986-1987	Maureen Abbott (grades 3-4), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Donna Rawlings (kindergarten), Ken Storie (grades 5-6)
1987-1988	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Evelyn Jones (grades 2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Donna Rawlings (grades 3-4), Ken Storie (grades 5-6), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1988-1989	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Donna Rawlings (grades 3-4), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1989-1990	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Donna Rawlings (grades 3-4), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1990-1991	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Ellen Law (grades 3-4), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1991-1992	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Ellen Law (grades 3-4), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1992-1993	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Ellen Law (grades 3-4), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1993-1994	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Evelyn Jones (grades 1-2), Ellen Law (grades 3-4), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1994-1995	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Ellen Law (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Irene Plaetinck (grades 3-4), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1995-1996	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Ellen Law (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Irene Plaetinck (grades 3-4), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1996-1997	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Ellen Law (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Irene Plaetinck (grades 3-4), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1997-1998	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Ellen Law (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Irene Plaetinck (grades 3-4), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1998-1999	Lenore Berry (kindergarten), Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Bruce Craig (grades 4-6), Ellen Law (grades 1-2), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Irene Plaetinck (grades 3-4), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
1999-2000	Lenore Berry (grades 2-3), Bruce Craig (grades 4-6), Bonnie DePauw (kindergarten), Ellen Law (grades 2-3), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
2000-2001	Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
2001-2002	Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)
2002-2003	Bruce Craig (grades 4-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary), Melody Wilcox (grades 2-3)
2003-2004	Bruce Craig (grades 4-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary), Melody Wilcox (grades 1-3)
2004-2005	Bruce Craig (grades 4-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary), Melody Wilcox (grades 2-3)
2005-2006	Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary), Melody Wilcox (grades 2-4)
2006-2007	Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary), Melody Wilcox (grades 1-2)
2007-2008	Bruce Craig (grades 4-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary), Melody Wilcox (grades 2-3)
2008-2009	Bruce Craig (grades 5-6), Marilyn Nash (educational assistant), Linda Truelove (educational assistant/secretary)

Photos & Coordinates

Cypress River Consolidated School (November 1967) Source: Archives of Manitoba, Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, File 64 Cypress River. Former Cypress River Consolidated School building (April 2019) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.55762, W99.09389 denoted by symbol on the map above

See also:

Manitoba Business: Pratt Lindgren and Associates / Pratt Lindgren Snider Tomcej and Associates

Historic Sites of Manitoba: Cypress River Consolidated School No. 2357 / Cypress River Museum (Cypress River, RM of Victoria)

Sources:

“Tenders - four classroom school,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 June 1958, page 36.

“Cypress River,” Glenboro Gazette, 18 December 1858, page 11.

Pioneers Perseverance & Progress: Cypress River Addendum 2000 by Cypress River History, 2000, pages 46-49.

“Former elementary school opens as nurse training facility,” by Lorraine Stevenson, Manitoba Co-operator, 17 September 2012.

Manitoba Local Government Boundaries Commission, Schools in Manitoba - Volume 2, Cypress River Consolidated School - File 64, March 1968, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Cypress River School District No. 342 Daily Registers, GR2049, Archives of Manitoba.

Manitoba School Records Collection, Cypress River Consolidated School District No. 2357 Daily Registers, GR2049, Archives of Manitoba.

This page was prepared by Georgette Hutlet, Nathan Kramer, and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 2 July 2023

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